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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 U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM | June 11, 2009 at 04:59 PM

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... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 11, 2009 at 04:58 PM

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... zephoria
From Apophenia | June 11, 2009 at 02:00 PM

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... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | June 11, 2009 at 01:50 PM

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... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 11, 2009 at 09:28 AM

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... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 11, 2009 at 08:48 AM

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... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 11, 2009 at 08:40 AM

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... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 11, 2009 at 06:26 AM

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... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 11, 2009 at 06:10 AM

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... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 11, 2009 at 06:00 AM

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.... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 11, 2009 at 05:40 AM

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... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 11, 2009 at 04:59 AM

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... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | June 10, 2009 at 09:45 PM

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... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | June 10, 2009 at 02:51 PM

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... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | June 9, 2009 at 06:14 PM

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... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | June 9, 2009 at 05:23 PM

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... webmink
From Wild WebMink | June 9, 2009 at 04:48 PM

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... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | June 9, 2009 at 03:47 PM

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... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | June 9, 2009 at 03:37 PM

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 Daniel Lemire's Blog | June 9, 2009 at 02:03 PM