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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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Twitter's Fiscal Fate?
Short piece on the state of Twitter. Still attracting lots of people. Collecting eyeballs. It reflects the two minds I have about it. It is a collection of...
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Ethnography and the In-Home Interview.
Fascinating piece on the the use of in-home interviews by Tesco's Fresh&Easy. " ... did Tesco grasp the method they were using? There is a distressing habit these...
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Gut Feelings: Intelligence of the Unconscious
Gerd Gigerenzer is the director of the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition at the Max Planck Institute. I have been reading his 2007 book: Gut Feelings:...
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Morphological Neuromarketing
In today's New York Times, an interesting case study on a Neuromarketing method used by US snack goods manufacturer Frito-Lay, which used the morphology (structure...
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Dealing with Reliability
Can you rely on services like Gmail? Or the Web? Sobering thoughts.
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Digital Coupons on the Rise
Good Financial Times Piece, mentions P&G, Kimberly Clark. It is inevitable that we see more of this kind of play. One example, Ecrio's Mobeam system.
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Ken Karakotsios on Simulation
Ken Karakotsios, creator of the game Simlife, now has a blog devoted to simulation. Great start. Instructive. See also my post on his company DecisionPower.IPhone...
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Sands Research Challenges NM Analysis
Have now followed this neuromarketing analysis work from Sands Research for three years: Sands Research Challenges Instant Analysis .... Impressive overall work...
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Collective Intelligence in Action
Reading Satnam Alag's Collective Intelligence in Action. Good, technical, probably not a read but rather a deep browse. See the book's site for more. Some similarities...
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Automated Innovation
A book about automating innovation just brought to my attention ... not available until April 15. I guess I would be more interested in an automated capability...
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Fairshare Tracks Quotes
I have been running a beta called Fairshare for a month. I submitted the name of this blog and about a month later started getting reports about how the content...
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An Unfunny Corporate Life
Colleague Sammy Haroon comments on a recent Economist article about how corporate life and culture may adapt in 2009. And further, can we expect an engaged workforce...
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Engineering Education
Gary Wnek points out that David E Goldberg has posted an excellent detailed slide show: What Engineers Don't Learn and Why They Don't Learn it. Part of the Ifoundry...
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Augmenting Reality : Cellphones and Models
The NYTimes has an article: The Cellphone, Navigating Our Lives talks about the concept of augmenting reality. Specifically about new cellphone interfaces that...
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Private Label Winning
In AdAge: Private Label Winning Battle of BrandsMarketers Face Moment of Truth As Retailers' Lines Soar to Historic Sales High ... Package-goods brands face their...
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Sketchory
For bloggers and others that might need sketched images: Sketchory. Here described in more detail. 250,000 images available under creative commons license. You...
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Future of Advertising
Good post covering advertising and marketing futures. In particular this covers aspects of how social networks will change the marketing future. Slides and sound...
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Text to Speech Illegal?
Reading James Boyle's The Public Domain(review) has alerted me to copyright issues. The new Kindle has a text-to-speech capability that reads book text to you...
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Planning Long-Term Growth
Change and GrowthSure, consumer spending is down and costs are up. But this is a company that is plotting where to build its production plants through 2015, not...
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