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Why Can
From The Noisy Channel

Why Can

Prediction markets were all the rage a few years ago, two of the most notable being the Iowa Electronic Market forecasting electoral results and the now defunct...

? BCS Leadership Targets Member Rights
From Wild WebMink

? BCS Leadership Targets Member Rights

On Monday I wrote about the crisis facing the British Computer Society (BCS) as its current leadership tries to jettison the old name. I found out about the move...

Handbook of Global User Research
From Putting People First

Handbook of Global User Research


Unilever Strikes iAD Deal with Apple
From The Eponymous Pickle

Unilever Strikes iAD Deal with Apple

Apple plans to start it's iAD on July 1:" ... a little over one week after iOS 4 becomes available to the general public. The iOS 4 update allows developers toBeyond...

Inspiration
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Inspiration

Earlier this week Microsoft announced the winners of the 2010 Windows Phone 7 "Rockstar" Award. Two high school students from the Advanced Technologies Academytheir...

Design Everything, a futures conference
From Putting People First

Design Everything, a futures conference


A sense of place, a world of Augmented Reality
From Putting People First

A sense of place, a world of Augmented Reality


From industrial design to user experience
From Putting People First

From industrial design to user experience


Rapid prototyping at UNICEF
From Putting People First

Rapid prototyping at UNICEF


GRAND Research Network
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

GRAND Research Network

Last week, I attended the first GRAND Annual Conference. I didn't really know what GRAND (Graphics, Animation, New Media) was, but I knew my supervisor was a network...

Fear in a Political Ad
From Schneier on Security

Fear in a Political Ad

Carly Fiorina wants to scare Californians into voting for her. Yes, terrorists kill -- about as often as home appliances.

Posing New Tools for Big Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Posing New Tools for Big Data

From Dataspora. Insightful post, starting to see increasing examples of this. Lots of good thoughts in this detailed piece: ' ... In my previous post , I discussed...

Shopper Centric Analytics Advances
From The Eponymous Pickle

Shopper Centric Analytics Advances

In AdAge:' ...A Prescription for Resuscitating Growth for CPG CompaniesAdvances in Data, Insights, Analytics and Technology Enable a Personalized Shopper-Marketing...

Mypaint: Drawing With No Talent
From The Eponymous Pickle

Mypaint: Drawing With No Talent

A newly discovered drawing system called Mypaint for freehand images, does not make you a graphics artist, but a nice start. Via Downloadsquad.

Bletchley Park Archives to Go Online
From Schneier on Security

Bletchley Park Archives to Go Online

This is good: Simon Greenish, chief executive officer of the Bletchley Park Trust, said the plan was for the centre's entire archive to be digitised. [...] He...

IPhone in Trouble?
From The Eponymous Pickle

IPhone in Trouble?

Is the IPhone in trouble because its business model is not open enough? You can build some clever things that win at first, but will they survive when challenged...

STOC 2010, and Some Business Meeting Notes
From My Biased Coin

STOC 2010, and Some Business Meeting Notes

STOC 2010 appears to be running quite smoothly.  I've been popping in and out -- the problem with being a local is that I actually have to go home at reasonable...

Auctioning Lincoln History
From The Eponymous Pickle

Auctioning Lincoln History

This blog has a number of times covered auction technologies. This resulted from a number of studies of auction processes inside the enterprise. Recently I have...

Digitizing the First Moment of Truth
From The Eponymous Pickle

Digitizing the First Moment of Truth

Former P&Ger Randall Beard in his Marketing with Impact Blog about digitization of the first-moment-of-truth, the interaction of shopper and store at the shelf....

Mapping Initiatives via Google and Bing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Mapping Initiatives via Google and Bing

An intriguing race between major search engine providers, using health data:Bing, Google Offering Dueling
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