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Empower Research Site and Blog
From The Eponymous Pickle

Empower Research Site and Blog

I was told that Empower Research has updated their blog.  Here it is.  I was recently introduced to some of their work.  Emphasizes social media research,  Media...

? Baby Owls
From Wild WebMink

? Baby Owls

We have owls in the woods around here. I love going to and from the office after dark and hearing the sound of them going about their business (and competing with...

Google Working on Face Recognition App
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Working on Face Recognition App

Have now worked on a number of image recognition applications.  And have always noticed the big G working around the edges of this space.  Here Engadget describes...

Lessons from Loyalty Marketing on Job Growth
From The Eponymous Pickle

Lessons from Loyalty Marketing on Job Growth

Post from the Burghard group. " ... Eric Canada has studied the impact of existing companies on job growth in communities. His data suggest attraction generally...

Reinventing Analysis With Memory
From The Eponymous Pickle

Reinventing Analysis With Memory

A quite interesting video series by Saffron Technology,   I have mentioned them in this space a number of times.   A unique application of technology for the enterprise...

A CIFellow
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

A CIFellow

The following is a special contribution to this blog from

Apps as the New Wallet
From The Eponymous Pickle

Apps as the New Wallet

Good piece in GigaOm about the continuing march towards the smartphone largely  replacing the credit card and the wallet.  Covers as  well as some of the issues...

Comodo Group Issues Bogus SSL Certificates
From Schneier on Security

Comodo Group Issues Bogus SSL Certificates

This isn't good: The hacker, whose March 15 attack was traced to an IP address in Iran, compromised a partner account at the respected certificate authority Comodo...

Rock Paper Scissors Takes To The Cloud
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Rock Paper Scissors Takes To The Cloud

Rock Paper Scissors is a fun little project I have talked about before (most recently at Heuristics

Mynd: A Thought Cap by Neurofocus
From The Eponymous Pickle

Mynd: A Thought Cap by Neurofocus

In FastCompany:  Thinking Cap: "Mynd" Is the First Dry, iPhone-Compatible, Portable Brain Scanner "Neuromarketing goes mobile with this lightweight, dry, and iPhone...

Time (for those at state universities?) to switch e-mail accounts
From My Biased Coin

Time (for those at state universities?) to switch e-mail accounts

While I've successfully resisted urges to return to blogging, I wanted to point to something. For those who might have missed this, I encourage you to go read William...

Latest reading
From Geeking with Greg

Latest reading

Here are a few of the articles that have caught my attention recently:Google tries again in social, this time focusing on the common trend of having sharing buttons...

? Switzerland Celebrates Document Freedom Day
From Wild WebMink

? Switzerland Celebrates Document Freedom Day

How did Document Freedom Day gone for you? If you need a reminder about it, I wrote about why document freedom matters a month or so ago. But I note that in Switzerland...

Online Degrees: Future Phone View
From The Eponymous Pickle

Online Degrees: Future Phone View

Anna Miller sends along a link to a good article on the future of phones in her blog. She writes for Online Degree:   " ... When we first started Online Degree...

FBI Asks for Cryptanalysis Help
From Schneier on Security

FBI Asks for Cryptanalysis Help

Could be interesting.

No More Excuses for Lack of Access
From Computer Science Teachers Association

No More Excuses for Lack of Access

One of the concerns we frequently hear from our members is that administrators and policy makers are not convinced of the need for students to have access to rigorous...

Social Web or Tempo Web?
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Social Web or Tempo Web?

Back in 2004, Tim O’Reilly observed that the Web had changed, and coined the term Web 2.0. This new Web is made of several layers which enable the Social Web. Wikipedia...

Service Design Toolkit for the design of public services
From Putting People First

Service Design Toolkit for the design of public services

Yesterday Brussels saw the launch of the English version of the Service Design Toolkit, which Design Flanders developed together with Belgian consultancies Yellow...

Educators, Enterprises and Gaming
From The Eponymous Pickle

Educators, Enterprises and Gaming

An HBR post asks when educators will get serious about gaming?  The same question could also be asked about when business will become serious about gaming constructs...

How Peer Review Doesn't Work
From Schneier on Security

How Peer Review Doesn't Work

In this amusing story of a terrorist plotter using pencil-and-paper cryptography instead of actually secure cryptography, there's this great paragraph: Despite...
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