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My Thanksgiving "Vacation"
From Computer Science Teachers Association

My Thanksgiving "Vacation"

I just returned from a week in Costa Rica. Unlike many foreign visitors, who land in San Jose to hop in cars and tour buses to get away to the beautiful white sand...

DunnhumbyUSA CEO Leads by example
From The Eponymous Pickle

DunnhumbyUSA CEO Leads by example

In the local press: good article on Dunnhumby USA's corporate culture, style and analytic approaches used to track shopper loyalty.  I was part of an early meeting...

Amazing Facts About McDonalds
From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazing Facts About McDonalds

A set of slides that provide some interesting facts about the global reach and impactful magnitude of the McDonald's Corporation.

Friday Squid Blogging: Cephalopod Art Conference
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Cephalopod Art Conference

There was an interdisciplinary cephalopod art conference earlier this year, in Minneapolis. Videos of the conference are available online. As usual, you can also...

CIKM 2011 Industry Event: Ed Chi on Model-Driven Research in Social Computing
From The Noisy Channel

CIKM 2011 Industry Event: Ed Chi on Model-Driven Research in Social Computing

This post is part of a series summarizing the presentations at

Thinking Fast and Slow
From The Eponymous Pickle

Thinking Fast and Slow

In the NYT Book review: A review of Thinking Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman.  The dismantling of 'Homo Economicus'.    Heady stuff that has stimulated a lot...

Subscribe to My Feed
From The Eponymous Pickle

Subscribe to My Feed

This blog has always had an RSS feed for syndication.  If you find it useful please do subscribe.  This blog has been around for a number of years.  It parallels...

Workers and Technology
From The Eponymous Pickle

Workers and Technology

Michael S Malone debates if workers are being left behind by technology.  Quite obviously, no.  Workers are taking to technology rapidly, and that technology is...

Medical Databases and Better Care
From The Eponymous Pickle

Medical Databases and Better Care

I am currently looking at applications and intelligence in medical data.  Which led me to this recent article. " ... UpToDate is one of several online services...

Social Media vs Knowledge Management
From The Eponymous Pickle

Social Media vs Knowledge Management

In the HBR blog: " ... On the surface, social media and knowledge management (KM) seem very similar. Both involve people using technology to access information....

A Recap of Supercomputing
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

A Recap of Supercomputing

Last week in Seattle a record attendance of more than 11,000 people from throughout

Android Malware
From Schneier on Security

Android Malware

The Android platform is where the malware action is: What happens when anyone can develop and publish an application to the Android Market? A 472% increase ingain...

Aberdeen Group
From The Eponymous Pickle

Aberdeen Group

Brought to my attention:  The Aberdeen Group.  " ... Aberdeen conducts primary research studies from a pool of over 500,000 panel participants. The results of each...

Catness
From Wild WebMink

Catness

Another good Simon’s Cat animation.

Designing for the Internet of Things
From The Eponymous Pickle

Designing for the Internet of Things

A recent NESTA conference:  About what they call demanding devices.  The idea should flourish.  Includes a number of videos from the conference.  Another idea would...

Selling Me
From The Eponymous Pickle

Selling Me

Martin Lindstrom writes in Fast Company about the 'Me Selling Proposition'.  Personalizing things from postage stamps to beverages to make them feel very much like...

How can we change consumer behaviour to benefit the environment?
From Putting People First

How can we change consumer behaviour to benefit the environment?

The concept of of social labelling could lead to a subconscious change in behaviour, Guy Champniss writes in The Guardian. “By social labelling, we’re referring...

Unilever
From Putting People First

Unilever

Five Levers for Change: inspiring consumers to adopt sustainable behaviour is fundamental to achieving Unilever’s Sustainable Living Plan. Unilever

Thanks, ECJ!
From Wild WebMink

Thanks, ECJ!

While the USA has a day of general thanksgiving today, European citizens need to be especially thankful to the European Court of Justice for their decision that...

Demanding devices: design and the Internet of Things
From Putting People First

Demanding devices: design and the Internet of Things

On Tuesday 22 November, NESTA in London organised an event that looked at the challenges of designing for an Internet of Things. The speakers: pioneers Usman Haque...
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