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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook Increases 700 Percent
Social networking sites continue to expand. Blogging traffic is slipping. Reason is likely the simplicity and ease of short snippets versus longer posts. Probably...
From CSDiary
Autographs on the Kindle
Last Sunday’s NY Times had an amusing article about people going to book-signings and asking authors to autograph their Kindle ebook readers. Well, gee, I guess...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Innovation in Manufacturing
Sammy Haroon and Tony Tsai, two former enterprise colleagues of mine pass along comments on the Accenture Roudtable report about innovation in manufacturing.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital at Unilever
New from Unilever in Adage: ' ... Digital media and branded content largely have been seen as strategies for mature markets where TV advertising faces its greatest...
From Putting People First
The social life of health information
The Pew Internet & American Life Project has published a report that shows how Americans’ pursuit of health takes place within a widening network of both online...
From Putting People First
The rules for balancing technology and relationships
Emma Cook asks in The Times of London if our increasing desire to stay in the loop is distracting us from the people who should matter the most in our lives. “According...
From The Noisy Channel
Hunch Has Launched
For anyone who has been waiting to try Hunch (which really is a “decision engine“) but didn’t manage to snarf an invite, today is your lucky day: Hunch has launched...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-06-15
American ending 'Nerd Bird" nonstops to Silicon Valley from Austin Uh-oh. Serious blow to the Sun folks working in Austin.Travel...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of June 15
June 16 Hearing: The Research and Science Education and the Technology and Innovation Subcommittees of the House Science and Technology Committee will hold a...
From Putting People First
From business to buttons
Interaction designers, business strategists and usability experts gathered last week in Malmö, Sweden for the third edition of the “From Business to Buttons” conference...
From Putting People First
Identity crisis in the West and innovation in the developing world
Nokia’s Ideas Project published two feature stories today: Digital We: A (Multiple) Identity Crisis We create new digital identities almost without limit – at the...
From Putting People First
Nokia to offer Life Tools for rural mobile users
Nokia plans to roll out its Life Tools group of services to more emerging markets following a successful pilot program in India, a company executive said Monday...
From Putting People First
Smartphone rises fast from gadget to necessity
The increasing popularity of BlackBerrys, iPhones and their kin owes as much to sociology as technology. Steve Lohr reports in The New York Times. “The smartphone...
From Putting People First
Anthropologist Stefana Broadbent speaker at TEDGlobal
Stefana Broadbent, the acclaimed tech anthropologist, will be an invited speaker at the upcoming TEDGlobal conference (21-24 July, Oxford, UK). Stefana is currently...
From Putting People First
US Government providing cellphones for the poor
A US federal program providing subsidized phone service now offers cellphones, showing how much society values them, reports The New York Times. “The users are...
From Putting People First
Products are worthless
A somewhat controversial post by Helge Tennø, strategic director and digital planner at digital agency Screenplay in Oslo, Norway. “Products are just stuff, and...
From The Noisy Channel
Don
Now this is the sort of publicity that even $100M can’t buy: the New York Post is reporting that, in response to Microsoft’s recent Bing launch, “FEAR GRIPS GOOGLE”...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Name Trends in Wolfram Alpha
One unexpected thing you can do with the WolframAlpha computational search engine is to determine naming trends. Fascinating, yes, but also a bit of minutiae as...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Taking Another Look at Flu Model Accuracy
A while back I mentioned the inaccuracy of recent very sophisticated flu models and my general theories about how these models can go wrong. Continue to think about...
From The Eponymous Pickle