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Google Wave or just a Blip?
From The Noisy Channel

Google Wave or just a Blip?

Yesterday, I was fortunate to attend a presentation from a Google Engineering Director about Google Wave, an online communication and collaboration tool that Google...

Can Math Provoke all Emotions
From The Eponymous Pickle

Can Math Provoke all Emotions

Science author Ian Stewart talks about the emotions that can be produced by the use and study of math.-

House Science and Technology Committee Starts Hearings on Cybersecurity
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

House Science and Technology Committee Starts Hearings on Cybersecurity

On June 10 the Research and Science Education subcommittee of the House Science and Technology Committee held a hearing on cybersecurity. This is the first of...

From little things
From Putting People First

From little things

The Future Tense programme on Australia’s ABC Radio features bottom-up, user-generated innovation in Africa: “In this program we’ll highlight several interesting...

Twitter is for friends; Facebook is everybody
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...

Flu Models Wrong
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...

The Mobile Difference
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

Fabio Sergio, a design and user experience strategist, creative director at frog design, and former associate professor at Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, was...

Barclays on less becoming more in product and service design
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...

SVA lectures on service design
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...

Video interview with M-PESA pioneer Nick Hughes
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...

The Bottom of the Pyramid
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...

Designing things that think they are services, and services that think they are things
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....

What Is conversational currency?
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...

Back from Endeca Discover
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...

The Fragile Hawthorne Effect
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...

P&G Pumping Digital Media
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...

Grocery Strategies
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...

OpenJDK Board gets Google & Red Hat Members
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...

Wordnik for Words
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...
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