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Unilever Makes Mobile Key Marketing Strategy
From The Eponymous Pickle

Unilever Makes Mobile Key Marketing Strategy

Unilever Plans for Mobile Marketing PrimacyUnilever aims to use mobile as its primary marketing channel within ten years, in a strategy that includes covering mobile...

Interesting Links Post 28 June 2010
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links Post 28 June 2010

This post is last this week. Why? Totally wrapped up in ISTE. OK I dis spend some of Sunday visiting the Mummies of the World exhibit at the Franklin institute...

L.A. Noire: A Great Story Despite Its Linearity
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

L.A. Noire: A Great Story Despite Its Linearity

My mind has been occupied by narrative lately.  I've been surveying literature about non-linear / interactive narrative and storytelling with the goal of eventually...

From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

The National Science Foundation and IEEE Spectrum Radio have partnered to produce a terrific series of reports describing

From Computational Complexity

Math on FUTURAMA and LAW AND ORDER:CI

MATH ON TV FUTURAMA mentions the Banach-Tarski Paradox! In the June 23, 2011 episode Professor Farnsworth invents a Banach-Tarski-Dupla-Shrinker which takeshere...

GS1:  The Digital Consumer and Trusted Product Information
From The Eponymous Pickle

GS1: The Digital Consumer and Trusted Product Information

Tomorrow!GS1 MobileCom/B2C Day 2011 What is it? GS1 MobileCom/B2C Day 2011 is global event to understand thegrowing potential of mobile commerce and digital business...

CCC Council to Meet in Washington on July 15
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

CCC Council to Meet in Washington on July 15

The CCC Council is scheduled to meet in Washington, DC, on Friday, July 15, and will be discussing the role of fundamental computing research in Smart Health &...

Home Grown Computer Camp
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Home Grown Computer Camp

Michael Scherotter who works for Microsoft decided to run a computer programming day camp in his home for his 9 year old son and 9 of his friends. Taking  on teaching...

Amazon Sells ads Everwhere
From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon Sells ads Everwhere

Amazon has started an ad network where you can sell ads to just about everything, anywhere. A clever idea. Much more." ... The e-commerce giant has started what...

Adknowledge Moves Facebook Games to Web Portals
From The Eponymous Pickle

Adknowledge Moves Facebook Games to Web Portals

Interesting development includes monetization, which will probably see some more games appearing on sites. Is that good?

Solving Food Deserts with WalMart
From The Eponymous Pickle

Solving Food Deserts with WalMart

Mark Perry posts about the potential for companies like WalMart to address such problems as the recently coined 'food desert' issue, using Washington DC as an example...

DemandTec and Dollar General
From The Eponymous Pickle

DemandTec and Dollar General

It has been a long time since I  took a look at DemandTec for deep analytical applications like revenue management, promotion and assortment optimization.  We looked...

Achieving a sense of home for people who travel extensively
From Putting People First

Achieving a sense of home for people who travel extensively

One of the people presenting at the DPPI conference in Milan last week was Aviaja Borup Lynggaard, an industrial Ph.D. scholar at Bang & Olufsen (B&O), attached...

Toyota and CIID open a Window to the World
From Putting People First

Toyota and CIID open a Window to the World

Imagine when a journey from A to B is no longer routine, as your car in the near-future encourages a sense of play, exploration and learning. This is the image...

More Than Just The Box
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

More Than Just The Box

Today has been a busy day at ISTE 2011 for me. I did some time at the booth and then went to a couple of sessions. Pat Yongpradit talked about what he is doing...

Enabling a Musem with Augmented Reality
From The Eponymous Pickle

Enabling a Musem with Augmented Reality

An excellent example of augmented reality, enabling the   J Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles to use Google Goggles to get more information about the museum's holdings...

Art of Game Design
From The Eponymous Pickle

Art of Game Design

In Process: The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses, by Jesse Schell.  Have made my way through the introductory parts of the book.   Very well done overview of...

From Computational Complexity

FCRC 2011. Part 2 of... probably 2.

(A workshop on Coding, Complexity and Sparsity will be held at Ann Arbor, August 1-4, 2011. See this website.) More thoughts on FCRC. Russell Impagliazzo...

P&G Contributes Manufacturing Models
From The Eponymous Pickle

P&G Contributes Manufacturing Models

In the local press: Procter & Gamble has said they will contribute at no cost 3D process modeling programs to help create a ' manufacturing renaissance' in the...

GeoIQ: Visualize and Analyze Real-Time Geo Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

GeoIQ: Visualize and Analyze Real-Time Geo Data

I had the opportunity to look at a relatively new Geographical Information System: GeoIQ.   Have worked on a number of company GIS projects and this looks to be...
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