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Big Data Strategy and Hype
From The Eponymous Pickle

Big Data Strategy and Hype

Forrester on Big Data Strategy.  A useful cautionary view on the floods of hype.  " ...  Don't Have A Big Data Strategy Yet? Good. ... Big data noise has reached...

Saving Barnes & Noble
From The Eponymous Pickle

Saving Barnes & Noble

Barnes & Noble continues a spiral downwards, apparently unable to link its Nooks and coffee shops to a profitable experience.  Books as experience goods and the...

Measurement as a Path to Success
From The Eponymous Pickle

Measurement as a Path to Success

A favorite topic of mine.  Improving measurement can lead to better results, even if you don't apply advanced analytics to the measurements.  Because measurement...

Online time can hobble brain’s important work
From Putting People First

Online time can hobble brain’s important work

While you are browsing online, you could be squandering memories — or losing important information, according to Swedish research. Contrary to common wisdom, an...

Financial Times on EPIC conference
From Putting People First

Financial Times on EPIC conference

This week, business anthropologists from all over the world descended on the Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference at London’s Royal Institution, the historic...

Innovation and Science Fiction
From The Eponymous Pickle

Innovation and Science Fiction

In the Atlantic:  Inventors need to read more science fiction... "  ... MIT researchers Dan Novy and Sophia Brueckner argue that the mind-bending worlds of authors...

Friday Squid Blogging: How Bacteria Terraform a Squid
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: How Bacteria Terraform a Squid

Fascinating: The bacterium Vibrio fischeri is a squid terraformer. Although it can live independently in seawater, it also colonises the body of the adorable Hawaiian...

Smart and Connected Health (SCH) Proposals due October 10 and December 10
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Smart and Connected Health (SCH) Proposals due October 10 and December 10

The goal of the Smart and Connected Health (SCH) Program, which is a joint funding announcement between the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes...

Information Dashboard Design
From The Eponymous Pickle

Information Dashboard Design

Newly arrived to support a project:  Information Dashboard Design: Displaying Data for At-a-Glance Monitoring  by Stephen Few. I will review in the future.  Their...

Business Technology Strategy Template
From The Eponymous Pickle

Business Technology Strategy Template

Well thought out template for business technology strategy from Forrester Blogs.  " .... What is it that almost every organization believes it needs, many organizations...

ARD2 Augmented Reality
From The Eponymous Pickle

ARD2 Augmented Reality

Recently brought to my attention this augmented reality delivery company: AR23D  For advertising, sales and entertainment implementations.  With development offices...

Legally Justifying NSA Surveillance of Americans
From Schneier on Security

Legally Justifying NSA Surveillance of Americans

Kit Walsh has an interesting blog post where he looks at how existing law can be used to justify the surveillance of Americans. Just to challenge ourselves, we'll...

National Identity By Smartphone
From The Eponymous Pickle

National Identity By Smartphone

The curious observation that national identity varies by phone type.  And the Asymco article and supporting data and visualizations.

Google Knows Every Wi-Fi Password in the World
From Schneier on Security

Google Knows Every Wi-Fi Password in the World

This article points out that as people are logging into Wi-Fi networks from their Android phones, and backing up those passwords along with everything else into...

Master the Mainframe 2013
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Master the Mainframe 2013

Something different. Something from IBM.   A teacher friend of mine forward the following announcement the other day. This contest is open to high school and university...

Reviewing Bad
From My Biased Coin

Reviewing Bad

A pun title, relating to two quick things.First, I had the wonderful experience of getting to see (through a special deal set up by Harvard's faculty development...

Tibco Spotfire Acquires Extended Results
From The Eponymous Pickle

Tibco Spotfire Acquires Extended Results

TIBCO Software Acquires Extended ResultsTIBCO Software Inc. (NASDAQ: TIBX) today announced it has acquired Extended Results, a privately-held provider of mobile...

How Public Design? A conference at Mindlab
From Putting People First

How Public Design? A conference at Mindlab

MindLab, a cross-ministerial innovation unit in Denmark, hosted the seminar titled ‘How Public Design?’ for the second time on 2 and 3 September. This event gathered...

Is design still about making things?
From Putting People First

Is design still about making things?

The future of design is a broad and slippery subject, one examined number of designers and critics at the recent Alvar Aalto Design Seminar in Jyväskylä, Finland...

How robots can trick you into loving them
From Putting People First

How robots can trick you into loving them

The secret to robots with better social skills? Exploiting human nature. Maggie Koerth-Baker, science editor of BoingBoing.net, explores “how [designers can make]...
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