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From The Noisy Channel

Wikipedia: Play The Ball, Not The Man

Today’s Freakonomics blog in the New York Times has a nice post entitled “By a Bunch of Nobodies: A Q&A With the Author of The Wikipedia Revolution“, in which Annika... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | June 16, 2009 at 07:32 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

FMI Looks at Private-Label

FMI will start to sponsor research on private-label good and put on a conference devoted to private label issues. In SupermarketNews. Good direction to take. Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | June 16, 2009 at 07:11 PM

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... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | June 16, 2009 at 11:53 AM

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... Peter Lee
From CSDiary | June 16, 2009 at 05:13 AM

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. Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | June 16, 2009 at 02:57 AM

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... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | June 15, 2009 at 06:15 PM

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... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 15, 2009 at 06:09 PM

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... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 15, 2009 at 05:56 PM

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... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | June 15, 2009 at 04:12 PM

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... webmink
From Wild WebMink | June 15, 2009 at 02:30 PM

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 U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM | June 15, 2009 at 01:29 PM

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... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 15, 2009 at 12:27 PM

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... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 15, 2009 at 10:14 AM

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... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 15, 2009 at 09:31 AM

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... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 15, 2009 at 09:27 AM

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... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 15, 2009 at 06:55 AM

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... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 15, 2009 at 06:32 AM

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... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 15, 2009 at 06:25 AM

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”... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | June 15, 2009 at 03:50 AM

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... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | June 15, 2009 at 12:33 AM