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Book Me In The USA!
From Wild WebMink

Book Me In The USA!

If you’d like me to speak at your corporate event, user group or conference in the USA, you’ll be interested to know that I expect to be in the USA in mid-July...

OSI Affiliate Scheme Live
From Wild WebMink

OSI Affiliate Scheme Live

The move to membership at the Open Source

Honor System Farm Stands
From Schneier on Security

Honor System Farm Stands

Many roadside farm stands in the U.S. are unmanned. They work on the honor system: take what you want, and pay what you owe. And today at his farm stand, Cochran...

Interesting Links 18 June 2012
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 18 June 2012

Some of you may remember that I was nominated for the  Top 30 Fascinating Technology Teacher blog voting. I came in at number 7. Thanks to all of you who voted'Who...

Big Data and Associated Risks
From The Eponymous Pickle

Big Data and Associated Risks

In GigaOM:   This goes to the expected places, well written and worth examining closely for any business.  Further, I think that some of the companies that are...

Kinect Glasses
From The Eponymous Pickle

Kinect Glasses

Microsoft intending to compete with Google Glasses using Kinect Glasses.  Will Mac Glasses be next?   Will we all voluntarily identify with this level of geeky...

OR Exchange for Analytics Questions
From The Eponymous Pickle

OR Exchange for Analytics Questions

Just discovered this.  The OR Exchange.  Constructed by Informs to act as a social exchange for questions about business analytics.  I have been a member ofInforms...

Antivirus Solution Era Over?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Antivirus Solution Era Over?

In Technology Review:  It appears that new and powerful viruses are on the rise.  Will we simply have to deal with endemic virus infections in the future?

Emerging Practices in Quality Measurement
From The Eponymous Pickle

Emerging Practices in Quality Measurement

Marisa Brown on emerging practices in quality measurement.  And key foundational practices required to implement and maintain a stable and effective quality measurement...

EMC and Gamification
From The Eponymous Pickle

EMC and Gamification

It is more about perceived status than badges.   But then badges can imply status.  Depending as I have said many times before, on the context and embedded culture...

What if CSTA Were the Next Coca- Cola?
From Computer Science Teachers Association

What if CSTA Were the Next Coca- Cola?

Have you ever looked at the history of Coca-Cola? They have been around for 126 years and while they keep re-creating themselves, they have a recognizable brand...

Remodeling Corporate Culture
From The Eponymous Pickle

Remodeling Corporate Culture

For the digital era.    Not an easy thing to do, but becoming increasingly important.  I like the mention of tbe Baby Boomers contribution here.  Much forgotten...

What Facebook knows
From Putting People First

What Facebook knows

Deep inside the company, a team of social scientists is hunting for unprecedented insights about human behaviour, reports Tom Simonite, Technology Review’s senior...

The user experience of Windows 8
From Putting People First

The user experience of Windows 8

Windows 8 and the art of UX compromise by Ryan Bell, user interface software team lead at EffectiveUI Microsoft is cleverly promoting Windows 8 with the tagline...

Army Overhauling Virtual Training Games
From The Eponymous Pickle

Army Overhauling Virtual Training Games

A very telling article on the Process of using Games in DOD applications. My own experience working for the office of the Joint Chiefs in the Pentagon was to perform...

Friday Squid Blogging: Woman's Mouth Inseminated by Cooked Squid
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Woman's Mouth Inseminated by Cooked Squid

This story is so freaky I'm not even sure I want to post it. But if I don't, you'll all send me the links. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk...

FireDogLake Book Salon for <i>Liars and Outliers</i>
From Schneier on Security

FireDogLake Book Salon for Liars and Outliers

On Sunday, I will be participating in a public discussion about my new book on the FireDogLake website. James Fallows will be the moderator, and I will be answering...

Social Local Mobile
From The Eponymous Pickle

Social Local Mobile

A presentation. . On SoLoMo and how it is changing our engagement world.

Why I Love Windows Live Mesh
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Why I Love Windows Live Mesh

It could be argued that I have too many computers. There is my cool demo machine

Autodesk 123D
From The Eponymous Pickle

Autodesk 123D

My previous note led me to Autodesk 123D.  Available as an App on the iPad.  Taking ordinary photos and turning them into 3D models.   See their blog for instructive...
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