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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 Apophenia
Twitter is for friends; Facebook is everybody
I was talking with a friend of mine today who is a senior at a technology-centered high school in California. Dylan Field and his friends are by no means representative...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Flu Models Wrong
Yet another example of models being wide of the mark. In the NYTimes a look at the models done for the flu and how poorly they have performed. As a person who...
From Putting People First
The Mobile Difference
The Mobile Difference, a new report by the Pew Internet & American Life project covers at length the current social implications of mobile internet access in the...
From Putting People First
Barclays on less becoming more in product and service design
Barclays 360 magazine, a quarterly thought leadership magazine for senior management within the Barclays Group, is devoted to simplicity in product and service...
From Putting People First
SVA lectures on service design
Last night the School of Visual Arts in New York hosted a lecture on service design. “While far more attention is still paid to the design of products, there is...
From Putting People First
Video interview with M-PESA pioneer Nick Hughes
The people of Microfinance Podcast have just posted a short video interview with Nick Hughes, Head of International Mobile Payment Solutions at the Vodafone Group...
From Putting People First
The Bottom of the Pyramid
This week the Institute for Money, Technology & Financial Inclusion hosted a conference about the “Bottom of the Pyramid” and Elizabeth Losh, author of Virtualpolitik...
From Putting People First
Designing things that think they are services, and services that think they are things
Matt Jones, founder and former lead designer at Dopplr and also former director of UX design at Nokia, is now a principal designer at Schulze & Webb in London....
From Putting People First
What Is conversational currency?
Jay Deragon argues in a short piece on AlwaysOn that social media and related tools are generating a new currency that is created by the propagation of your conversation...
From The Noisy Channel
Back from Endeca Discover
I hope that regular readers forgive the recent sparsity of posts. I spent most of the last three days attending Discover, Endeca’s annual user conference. It might...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Fragile Hawthorne Effect
The Hawthorne effect is often brought up in industrial psychology. It was brought up when constructing industrial experiments and simulations where the behavior...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Pumping Digital Media
In AdAge: Marketing mix and other analytical methods are starting to show large companies that there is real value to using digital at a greater level. This has...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Grocery Strategies
A good BW overview article on new strategies by retail grocery. ' ... From ready-to-eat meals to eco-friendly offerings, food retailers are finding more ways to...
From Wild WebMink
OpenJDK Board gets Google & Red Hat Members
Over the weekend, Mark announced he's updated the OpenJDK Interim Governance Board page to add details of the two new members Sun has asked to join the Board to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wordnik for Words
Wordnik. A beta site that seeks to be more than a dictionary. Sort of an encyclopedia of words. A modern OED. ' .... An ongoing project devoted to discovering...
From The Noisy Channel
Attending Endeca Discover
Apologies for the unusual hiatus in posting–I’ve been attending Endeca Discover (an annual user conference) and haven’t managed to allocate time for blogging. I’ll...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Why senior researchers and managers should analyze data themselves
Scientists, businessman and even spies are supposed to analyze data collaboratively. Are they? If you are a scientist, you are familiar with the following type...
From Putting People First
Efficiency or ambient intimacy?
The latest issue of Vodafone’s Receiver Magazine is all about a new era of human interaction that is marked by perpetual conversations and perpetual info drip-feed...
From Putting People First