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Watermarking Tools
From The Eponymous Pickle

Watermarking Tools

In Plagiarism Today, a site I just discovered that covers online content, plagiarism and copyright issues, a detailed report on online watermarking tools. In...

Places  of the Future
From The Eponymous Pickle

Places of the Future

Fraunhofer Institute has put together some research in constructing a hotel room of the future. Marriott tried to do something that included lots of easy interconnectivity...

Wikinomics Blog
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wikinomics Blog

I see that the Wikinomics blog is up and running, with some interesting posts that expand their exploration of mass collaboration.

Ten Blogs for Bloggers
From The Eponymous Pickle

Ten Blogs for Bloggers

Ten blogs every Blogger should read in from Zero to SEO.

Internet and the Press
From The Eponymous Pickle

Internet and the Press

How does the internet weaken the press? By an existence proof, the local paper delivered to the door is getting thinner by the day.

Smart Phone  Watches
From The Eponymous Pickle

Smart Phone Watches

Apparently there are a number of watch format devices that aim to replace smartphones. But as long as we use our fingers I wonder about their practicality. Above...

Roland Piquepaille Passes
From The Eponymous Pickle

Roland Piquepaille Passes

UK correspondent Richard James informs me of the passing of emerging tech blogger Roland Piquepaille. I read much of what he read and he was an inspiration for...

Produce Interface
From The Eponymous Pickle

Produce Interface

This post on a Danish interface for produce does not say a great deal, but I am glad that others are paying attention to retail interfaces around the world. Produce...

Bullet Graphs
From The Eponymous Pickle

Bullet Graphs

A Perceptual Edge post about bullet graphs, which I have never used. Apparently these were designed to replace circular gauge type displays. In their simplest...

Google Expands Semantics in Search
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Expands Semantics in Search

I recall doing several searches where I thought the results indicated a fairly complex semantic net was being used on their side. Here is more evidence that they...

Frequency of Impulse Purchases
From The Eponymous Pickle

Frequency of Impulse Purchases

Wharton Prof David R. Bell, in a detailed article, says that there is less general impulse purchasing than we had thought. " ... "The message ... is that the amount...

Tom Peters on Boomer Markets
From The Eponymous Pickle

Tom Peters on Boomer Markets

Tom Peters comments on the Boomer market and links to some new Forrester work in this area.

CES Overview
From The Eponymous Pickle

CES Overview

Have not been to one of these in years, but worth a look: The Consumer Electronics Show

Microsoft Tag Released
From The Eponymous Pickle

Microsoft Tag Released

It is unfair to compare this to the CueCat, since that fabled failed project attempted to include a unitasking piece of hardware, while these methods do not and...

Open Source Victories
From The Eponymous Pickle

Open Source Victories

Open Source victories of 2008. For those interested in the topic of open source this is interesting. After my leaving the big firm, now that I have to make my...

CYC is Posting Snippets of Knowledge
From The Eponymous Pickle

CYC is Posting Snippets of Knowledge

I see that the CYC company is now twittering. CYC was started in 1984 by Douglas Lenat. Their site has some demos. Have followed its progress since then andin...

R Computing for Data Mining
From The Eponymous Pickle

R Computing for Data Mining

The NYTimes has an overview article on the open source R Computing Language. Emphasizing its use for data mining applications. Not a bad article, but they start...

Search Engine Optimization Blogs
From The Eponymous Pickle

Search Engine Optimization Blogs

eCairn has published a list of the top 150 blogs that cover Search Engine optimization and Search Engine Marketing (SEO/SEM).

Targeting Shoppers with Loyalty Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Targeting Shoppers with Loyalty Data

Short NYT article that shows how dunnhumby uses loyalty data to target consumers for retail clients. After many years of using loyalty data, retailers are finally...

Huberman on Twitter
From The Eponymous Pickle

Huberman on Twitter

Bernardo A. Huberman an HP researcher, who we met in the late 90s when he was doing analysis of the growth of the web, has a new paper out Twitter: Social Networks...
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