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Identifying People by their Bacteria
From Schneier on Security

Identifying People by their Bacteria

A potential new forensic: To determine how similar a person's fingertip bacteria are to bacteria left on computer keys, the team took swabs from three computer...

? Washed Up and Sold Out
From Wild WebMink

? Washed Up and Sold Out

Parliament’s wash-up’s a

Smartphones Will Rule
From The Eponymous Pickle

Smartphones Will Rule

Nielsen says that although only about 21% of phones today are smart, it will be 'most' by 2011, and 35% in the US by the end of 2010. Fast changes. This could make...

Interesting Links 29 March 2010
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 29 March 2010

In yet another example of how poorly I do at predicting what is going to be interesting and/or controversial almost no one read and absolutely no one commentedcompanies...

Want a Quora Invite?
From The Noisy Channel

Want a Quora Invite?

I have 10 invites for Quora, a social search site launched earlier this year by a bunch of ex-Facebookers (including former CTO Adam D

Five Things you Need Before Deploying BI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Five Things you Need Before Deploying BI

From Kevin Quinn of Information Builders, a 19 page paper: ' ... Before you start your next BI project, take a look at my recent white paper, Five Things You Need...

L'Oreal Advances With Mobile
From The Eponymous Pickle

L'Oreal Advances With Mobile

In Consumer Goods Technology. A good interview ... requires registration. L'Oreal Case Study: Advancing Mobile Technology in the FieldCGT Executive Editor Kara...

Play Fast Flip in Google Reader
From The Eponymous Pickle

Play Fast Flip in Google Reader

The Google Reader RSS system now has a way to fast-flip through images. Good way to preview possibilities within your feed. It is also able to recommend other...

? More Music Picks
From Wild WebMink

? More Music Picks

Free music from Cydelix, Zoey Van Goey, Loscil and Justin Bieber, plus album-length samplers.

Statistical Methods for Behavioral Modeling
From The Eponymous Pickle

Statistical Methods for Behavioral Modeling

Steve Miller on misconceptions about using statistics for behavioral models. ' ...

Digital Scent and Scent in Marketing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Digital Scent and Scent in Marketing

A recent query about the progress of digital scent made me review the mentions of the idea in this blog. Have always been interested in the idea, and have been...

Wondering whether DARPA has changed?
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Wondering whether DARPA has changed?

If there is any doubt in your mind (or even if there is not!), read the testimony delivered by Regina Dugan to the House Armed Services Committee on March 23.

Tableau IPhone Visualization
From The Eponymous Pickle

Tableau IPhone Visualization

Michael Cristiani sends along a link to a test App for Tableau to do BI style visualization on the IPhone. Nice idea, I think having mobile visual business intelligence...

The Evolution of Social Search
From The Noisy Channel

The Evolution of Social Search

Earlier this week, I had the good fortune to attend the New York Semantic Web Meetup, which featured three excellent presentations. I’ll confess that I primarily...

New Toys from Hunch
From The Noisy Channel

New Toys from Hunch

I’ve been following Hunch for a while, and my impression has evolved from the

Neuropod
From The Eponymous Pickle

Neuropod

Newly discovered: ' ... NeuroPod is the neuroscience podcast from Nature, produced in association with the Dana Foundation. Each month, join us as we delve into...

Design for social innovation
From Putting People First

Design for social innovation

Petz Scholtus reports in TreeHugger on presentations by Alastair Fuad-Luke, Gui Bonsiepe and Alfred Astort during the recent 1st International Congress of Design...

? Politics of Copyright
From Wild WebMink

? Politics of Copyright

The Politics of Intellectual Property by Jessica Litman This much shorter paper (from a conference address) is valuable as an explanation and description from a...

AP
From Putting People First

AP

A new study by the Associated Press has come to the conclusion that consumers are

EmSense Announces New Headgear
From The Eponymous Pickle

EmSense Announces New Headgear

New sensory development in EEG sensors: ' ... EmSense proprietary sensors provide more targeted measurement with greater precision than medical sensors. The Contact...
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