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Consumer Data Mining
From The Eponymous Pickle

Consumer Data Mining

Good broad article on the topic of consumer data from [email protected]'s ever-expanding cache of online data is a store in more ways than one. Every tweet...

Turning Raw Data into Information
From The Eponymous Pickle

Turning Raw Data into Information

Turning Raw Data into Actionable Information.   A New blog by Michael Tarallo.  A business intelligence professional formerly at Pentaho.  Includes a recent post...

CIKM 2011 Industry Event: Ben Greene on Large Memory Computers for In-Memory Enterprise Applications
From The Noisy Channel

CIKM 2011 Industry Event: Ben Greene on Large Memory Computers for In-Memory Enterprise Applications

This post is part of a series summarizing the presentations at

Open Rights Group on FLOSS Weekly
From Wild WebMink

Open Rights Group on FLOSS Weekly

Tomorrow (November 23rd) I’ll be visiting Jim Killock, Executive Director of the Open Rights Group (the UK’s answer to the EFF), and interviewing him on FLOSS Weekly...

Your Attention Taken
From The Eponymous Pickle

Your Attention Taken

Eye embedded screens on contact lenses have been in the news lately.  This is not a new idea, we experimented with screens that could be flipped in front of the...

Innovation Center for Spices
From The Eponymous Pickle

Innovation Center for Spices

I like the idea of innovation research centers.  Here, in an unrelated space: McCormick Science Institute explores the health benefit of spices.   Not about retail...

NSF Launches Secure & Trustworthy Cyberspace Program; Webinar Scheduled
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

NSF Launches Secure & Trustworthy Cyberspace Program; Webinar Scheduled

Last month, the National Science Foundation (NSF) launched a new multi-disciplinary program — Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC)

Free Cryptography Class
From Schneier on Security

Free Cryptography Class

Dan Boheh of Stanford University is teaching a free cryptography class starting in January.

Everything is a service
From Putting People First

Everything is a service

A long essay by Dave Gray, founder of the XPLANE/Dachis Group, explores the topic of the service economy from a user experience point of view. Make sure you read...

Design for digital context (white paper)
From Putting People First

Design for digital context (white paper)

Fjord, the digital design consultancy, has just completed a white paper called “Design for Context: Understanding How User Context is Evolving”, looking at the...

Medical Data Access
From The Eponymous Pickle

Medical Data Access

From Technology Review: Discovered during a look at the 'medical circles'  idea addressed here previously.  To what degree should you have access to data whichDoctors...

Storeflix: A Social Network for Business
From The Eponymous Pickle

Storeflix: A Social Network for Business

Just brought to my attention:  Storeflix.  " ...  The social media application gives businesses the ability to instantly see and analyze their business operations...

The Rock Paper Azure Challenge is back
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

The Rock Paper Azure Challenge is back

The Rock Paper Azure Challenge is back and you could win big! Play Rock, Paper, Scissors in the cloud for your chance  to win a trip to Cancun, an Acer Aspire...

The New Know
From The Eponymous Pickle

The New Know

Colleague Jose Guerra brought this book to my attention.  The New Know: Innovation Powered by Analytics (Wiley and SAS Business Series) by Thornton A. May (Sep "...

From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Following last month’s focus on smart health and wellbeing, IEEE Intelligent Systems

Gathering BI Requirements
From The Eponymous Pickle

Gathering BI Requirements

From TDWI:    How to interview for business intelligence requirements.  This is fairly obvious, but worth reading if you you are new to this area, or as a reminder...

A Look at Citrix Collaborative Workspace
From The Eponymous Pickle

A Look at Citrix Collaborative Workspace

A post in the HBR blog.   A good look, with pictures,  of the Citrix example.  How can physical spaces promote effective collaboration, innovation, brainstorming...

5% of Adults Use QR Codes
From The Eponymous Pickle

5% of Adults Use QR Codes

This seems quite low, though not far from my own observation, probably mostly those with other technology interests.  The code reading Apps are getting better and...

ShopKick Partners with Visa
From The Eponymous Pickle

ShopKick Partners with Visa

Followed ShopKick for a while due to their more precisely locational approach for a retailer engagement method.   Now a partnership has emerged:   " ... Shopkick...

Round Two Reviewing : An Exercise in Conditional Probabilities
From My Biased Coin

Round Two Reviewing : An Exercise in Conditional Probabilities

We're in "round 2" of reviews for NSDI, and it's brought up a problem for me I've noticed before.  I worry that, subconsciously, I'm inclined to give papers I read...
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