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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 …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Designing for the Internet of Things
A recent NESTA conference: About what they call demanding devices. The idea should flourish. Includes a number of videos from the conference. Another idea would...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Selling Me
Martin Lindstrom writes in Fast Company about the 'Me Selling Proposition'. Personalizing things from postage stamps to beverages to make them feel very much like...
From Putting People First
How can we change consumer behaviour to benefit the environment?
The concept of of social labelling could lead to a subconscious change in behaviour, Guy Champniss writes in The Guardian. “By social labelling, we’re referring...
From Putting People First
Unilever
Five Levers for Change: inspiring consumers to adopt sustainable behaviour is fundamental to achieving Unilever’s Sustainable Living Plan. Unilever
From Wild WebMink
Thanks, ECJ!
While the USA has a day of general thanksgiving today, European citizens need to be especially thankful to the European Court of Justice for their decision that...
From Putting People First
Demanding devices: design and the Internet of Things
On Tuesday 22 November, NESTA in London organised an event that looked at the challenges of designing for an Internet of Things. The speakers: pioneers Usman Haque...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Announces Spring Cleaning
You have to admire their spunk. And funds. They have tried a number of unusual efforts and dared us to use them. Announced, a list things that are being sunsetted...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Share of Wallet is not Enough
Byron Sharp discusses the issue of share of wallet. " ... In a recent Harvard Business Review article TIm Keiningham et al (Oct 2011) argue that managers should...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
When Something Helpful Comes Along
You never know where a resource is going to come from. We have a retired guidance counselor that is back subbing in our building this month. He sought me out...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Flow Powered Reality
Artificial Reality powered shopping:" ... A9.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) ... announced a new iPhone app: Flow Powered by Amazon....
From Putting People First
The Jawbone UP fails, but teaches 3 golden rules for experience design
Cliff Kuang, editor of Co.Design, used the Jawbone UP for a week, and can’t recommend it. “The wristband itself is superbly designed: The slight oval shape and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Queries Beta
Big Queries in Beta via Google. " ... Google wants to help you crunch big data like cornflakes.To that end, it is opening up BigQuery, the service is designed...
From Wild WebMink
Big May Not Be Better
Price myths persist long after their time. A decade after the popularisation of open source for business use, I’m still hearing the idea espoused that it’s safer...
From The Noisy Channel
CIKM 2011 Industry Event: David Hawking on Search Problems and Solutions in Higher Education
This post is part of a series summarizing the presentations at
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Policy Highlights from Communications of the ACM
Below is a list of items with policy relevance from the September issue of Communications of the ACM. As always, much of the material in CACM is premium content...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Engaging the Crowd with Hall
A new way to engage the crowd. Vote, chat, interact. Existing halls about Startups, Apple, Ruby, ESPN, SEO, NFL etc. Start your own halls. A little like Twitter...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog