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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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Designing the User Interface
A good review, which describes what is new in the book: Designing the User Interface, 5th Edition by Ben Shneiderman and Catherine Plaisant. I have a much earlier...
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ConAgra Looks at Store Marketing
An interview with ConAgra on in-store marketing.
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Institute for Large Scale Innovation
Just founded by John Kao and Deloitte, of interest:The Institute for Large Scale Innovation (ILSI) is a non-profit organization founded to address three key questions...
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Caromatherapy
The Whiff Guys, sensory specialists, report on caromatheraphy experimentation by Mercedes-Benz. Read it as car-aromatherapy. Admittedly only in the luxury limotheir...
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Sites that Excerpt: Legal?
Excerpts from the NYTimes like the one below from the article: Copyright Challenge for Sites That Excerpt, are coming under fire. It is true that most of the challenges...
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The Pscyh Angle of the Netflix Prize
The Netflix prize is a well known example of pattern recognition from a large database. $1,000,000 to anyone that can improve Netflix's movie rating system by at...
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Useful Sketch Tagging Examined
I recently mentioned the service called Sketchory, which contains 250K free-to-use sketches. Like the image on the right which I got when I asked for 'abstract'...
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Trouble for In-Store Marketing?
Are more decisions being made at home? So says AdAge in a new post based on a survey. Trouble in Store for Shopper Marketing?. Survey: Recession-Hit ShoppersBased...
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Pinker on Genomes
One of my favorite writers, Steven Pinker in the NYT: My Genome, My Self. " ... I had my genome sequenced and am allowing it to be posted on the Internet, along...
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Washing Machine Model
An example of a washing machine designed for the third world. A few years ago I was part of a panel for the World Bank that judged investment in inventions like...
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Copyright and Songsmith
On the death of copyright by capabilities like Microsoft Research's Songsmith. The article considers the further legal implications of the Web and copyright.
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In Store Decisions
What triggers in-store purchase decisions? To state the obvious: many things. (registration required)
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Clever Digital Marketing
HardKnoxLife demonstrates a bit of digital marketing from GE that combines a single printed page, the camera on your PC and some 3D modeling to show you how clever...
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Package Unseen
A new blog that looks to be interesting:The Package UnseenObservations about package design, culture, and context ... ' About the Author, Richard Shear.-
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Agent-Based Complexity Models
For a request I dug out this article on some work I was involved in a number of years ago, then remembered that I had never posted it here. It is about solving...
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Think Like a Startup
I have heard this suggestion many times in the large enterprise. Usually more like: 'What would you invest in if this was your own money?'. Though that was directed...
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Alice Sells Toilet Paper
Was just pointed to a private beta called Alice. The site appears to want to sell common CPG products at some discount via subscription with free delivery. Using...
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Finding Your Customers
Good basic outline about how to find your customers while social networking.
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