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Loss Aversion
From The Eponymous Pickle

Loss Aversion

In Wired / Frontal Cortex: On the Allais paradox, or loss aversion in humans.  One of the most well known and powerful concepts in neuroeconomics.  With some excellent...

Hyper Social Organization
From The Eponymous Pickle

Hyper Social Organization

Paul Gillin on Hyper social organizations:" ... I

links for 2010-10-23
From Wild WebMink

links for 2010-10-23

Mike Shapiro Leaves Oracle Another of the key Solaris guys quits. A key figure in the development the ZFS storage appliance as well as of DTrace in Solaris kernel...

New Ways to Map Influence
From The Eponymous Pickle

New Ways to Map Influence

In Fastcompany.  An idea we also examined.  How do you figure out where useful ideas come from?  And why they sometimes do not have the influence you might expect...

Steganography in the Longfin Inshore Squid
From Schneier on Security

Steganography in the Longfin Inshore Squid

Really: While the notion that a few animals produce polarization signals and use them in communication is not new, M

Magazines on the iPad
From The Eponymous Pickle

Magazines on the iPad

A good piece on early experiments with publishing mags on the iPad.  I see this an example of really fundamental change.  Are we seeing the beginning of the new...

Video Interview with Me from RSA Europe
From Schneier on Security

Video Interview with Me from RSA Europe

I was interviewed this week at RSA Europe.

CS Education Resources
From Computer Science Teachers Association

CS Education Resources

Steve Cooper, Mehran Sahami, and Paulo Blickstein at Stanford University have a project about online repositories of computer science educational material and they...

Smartphones are our new drug of choice
From Putting People First

Smartphones are our new drug of choice

Smartphones’ sleek forms, tactile buttons, and blinking lights add up to a sort of game — and a perfect catalyst for compulsive behaviors, writes Shelley DuBois...

More QR Codes in Retail
From The Eponymous Pickle

More QR Codes in Retail

QR codes are gaining momentum as they increasingly appear on shelf tags, in-store posters and product packagingIn Supermarketnews, more examples of how scan able...

Computer Class or Computer Science Class
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Computer Class or Computer Science Class

There is much too much confusion about the difference between a

The (limited) power of good intentions
From Putting People First

The (limited) power of good intentions

Socially responsible design, writes Julie Lasky in Metropolis Magazine, is a whole lot harder than it looks.

Visualizing Your Inbox
From The Eponymous Pickle

Visualizing Your Inbox

Another example of Gmail inbox visualization.  I have mentioned a few others here.  I have built some simple screen scraping methods to look at this via Excel,...

From Computational Complexity

New York Area Theory Day- Nov 12, 2010

New York Area Theory Day, Organized by: IBM/NYU/Columbia, External sponsorship by: Google, Friday, November 12, 2010 The Theory Day will be held at Couranthere...

Econonomics of Mass Collaboration
From The Eponymous Pickle

Econonomics of Mass Collaboration

HBR Podcast with guest Don Tapscott, chairman of nGenera Insight and coauthor of Macrowikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World. on the economics of mass collaboration...

links for 2010-10-22
From Wild WebMink

links for 2010-10-22

AWS Free Usage Tier I was actually surprised to find Amazon didn't have a sandpit for AWS, so this new offering really doesn't surprise me. They still have no easy...

FaceTime for Mac Security Hole
From Schneier on Security

FaceTime for Mac Security Hole

Once a user has logged into FaceTime, anyone with access to the machine can change the user's Apple ID password without knowing the old password.

Tynt - Copy and Paste
From The Eponymous Pickle

Tynt - Copy and Paste

Another example of the ability to determine how much your content is being shared.   I have always looked at this with mixed feelings ... you want what you saySee...

Some Shopping by Phone Only
From The Eponymous Pickle

Some Shopping by Phone Only

Who shops using mobile, and what are the consequences?" ... A small segment of consumers prefer to shop using their mobile devices, according to a report from Millennial...

Deborah Crawford to receive 2010 Presidential Rank Award
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Deborah Crawford to receive 2010 Presidential Rank Award

Deborah Crawford, who recently left her position as NSF’s Deputy Assistant Director for CISE (Jeannette Wing’s right-hand person) to become Vice Provost for Research...
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