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Retailers and Mobile Commerce
From The Eponymous Pickle

Retailers and Mobile Commerce

From Storefrontbacktalk, an excellent overview of the use of mobile commerce by retailers and the potential privacy and standardization 'minefields'. ' ... the...

Last Chance to Register for UIE Virtual Seminar on Faceted Search!
From The Noisy Channel

Last Chance to Register for UIE Virtual Seminar on Faceted Search!


Influential Logos
From The Eponymous Pickle

Influential Logos

Roger Dooley looks at the non-conscious influence in corporate logos. He mentions the infamous P&G logo and satanism that started back in the 70s. I experienced...

Policy Highlights from Communications of the ACM - August 2009 (Vol. 52, No. 8)
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

Policy Highlights from Communications of the ACM - August 2009 (Vol. 52, No. 8)

Below is a list of items with policy relevance from the August issue of Communications of the ACM. As always, much of the material in CACM is premium content,...

links for 2009-08-17
From Wild WebMink

links for 2009-08-17

Hit and Run Hula Ambushes the Apple Store I'm not a fan of flash mobs but this one looks happy and delightful.Apple FlashMob Hula...

Obsolete Tech
From The Eponymous Pickle

Obsolete Tech

An interesting PCWorld piece on forty obsolete technologies and technology related processes. Directionally it is useful to understand both what is new and what...

Army Suggests that Field Manuals be Wikis
From The Eponymous Pickle

Army Suggests that Field Manuals be Wikis

From Slashdot: In some ways this is not surprising. The US military is very good at standardizing input. And yet, a Wiki is a means of doing this in a very non...

The Raging Debate Over The Link Economy
From The Noisy Channel

The Raging Debate Over The Link Economy


Style Issues?
From Return 42;

Style Issues?

Since this blog starts to attract more and more visitors, it also becomes more and more important to me to improve my writing. That effort includes not only myThe...

Can't You be Original?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Can't You be Original?

Got a recent e-mail that made me think ... asking me why I almost always use a link to an external source and comment on that instead of writing original pieces...

Not Interested in Lugging Another Device
From The Eponymous Pickle

Not Interested in Lugging Another Device

People like me who read a lot but are not interested in buying, maintaining and lugging yet another device are interested in multipurposing our smart phones aswrites...

Twitter: "pointless babble" or peripheral awareness + social grooming?
From Apophenia

Twitter: "pointless babble" or peripheral awareness + social grooming?

Studies like this one by Pear Analytics drive me batty. They concluded that 40.55% of the tweets they coded are pointless babble; 37.55% are conversational; 8.7...

Business Theories are Useful?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Business Theories are Useful?

Are business theories all a waste of time? A book review in the HBR blog. I agree in the sense that theories cannot be used directly as blueprints for success...

Target-Amazon Divorce
From The Eponymous Pickle

Target-Amazon Divorce

An interesting look at the recent Target-Amazon divorce in Storefrontbacktalk. Suggests that the reasons are to maintain Target's unique identity. I would think...

A Physicist Looks at Time Travel
From The Eponymous Pickle

A Physicist Looks at Time Travel

In Slate: Time-Traveling for Dummies, A physicist looks at The Time Traveler's Wife, By Dave Goldberg. Also a favorite subject of mine. I read the book but have...

Single Screen Measurement
From The Eponymous Pickle

Single Screen Measurement

From Adage: Many of the big players mobilize to create a single measurement across all marketing screens. An excellent idea, the devil will be in the details....

Connecting Colleges & High Schools
From Computer Science Teachers Association

Connecting Colleges & High Schools

It's hard to believe that summer is almost over and classes will be starting soon for most of us. I'd like to introduce myself to the blog - I am Dave Reed, the...

Why Does Google Hold Back On Faceted Search?
From The Noisy Channel

Why Does Google Hold Back On Faceted Search?


Picking a Web Page at Random on the Web
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Picking a Web Page at Random on the Web

To do statistics over the Web, we need samples. Thus, I want to know how to pick a Web page at random, without making much effort. If you are Google or Microsoft...

Google
From The Noisy Channel

Google

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