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From The Eponymous Pickle

Quantitative Scent Test

The launch of a method to better understand reaction to brand scent. A former area of research and retail innovation application of mine. Measurement always helps... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | June 9, 2011 at 12:25 PM

From Putting People First

David Report: Closed Wallets, Closed Minds

We are increasingly suffering from consumption fatigue, but brands and designers have yet to acknowledge the fact, reckons David Carlson in Closed Wallets, Closed... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 9, 2011 at 09:54 AM

From Putting People First

Pamphlet: The Internet of People for a Post-Oil World

The Internet of People for a Post-Oil World Christian Nold and Rob van Kranenburg Paperback, 67 pages The Architectural League of New York In Situated Technologies... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 9, 2011 at 09:49 AM

From Apophenia

Our contemporary ideas about privacy are often shaped by legal discourse that emphasizes the notion of “individual harm.” Furthermore, when we think about privacy... zephoria
From Apophenia | June 9, 2011 at 09:17 AM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Computer Related Finalists in the Innovative Education Forum 2011

Yesterday Microsoft announced the second round of finalists for the Innovative Education Forum. Over in the Teacher Tech blog they listed brief summaries of all... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | June 9, 2011 at 09:01 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Facebook Facial Recognition

In GigaOm. FaceBook facial recognition. Technology and reactions to that most personal of possessions, your face. Is it a privacy concern? And are the privacy... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | June 9, 2011 at 04:56 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Dispelling Myths about Industry Clusters

Mark Montgomery of Kyield writes: " .... I was interviewed this week about the New Mexico Analytics Cluster project with an article to be published within theMyths... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | June 9, 2011 at 04:06 AM

From The Noisy Channel

Christos Faloutsos: Mining Billion-Node Graphs

As promised, here is a video of CMU professor Christos Faloutsos‘s recent tech talk at LinkedIn on “Mining Billion-Node Graphs“. Enjoy! And check out our next week’s... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | June 9, 2011 at 03:00 AM

From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Calling her colleagues the “best-in-class scientists and engineers [who] come to serve their country,” DARPA Director Regina Dugan described in a recent interview... Erwin Gianchandani
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog | June 9, 2011 at 02:22 AM

From Schneier on Security

25% of U.S. Criminal Hackers are Police Informants

I have no idea if this is true: In some cases, popular illegal forums used by cyber criminals as marketplaces for stolen identities and credit card numbers have... schneier
From Schneier on Security | June 8, 2011 at 08:46 PM

From My Biased Coin

ITCS

I was asked to post the call for papers for the (renamed) Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science conference. (I'm glad they finally changed the name -- see... Michael Mitzenmacher
From My Biased Coin | June 8, 2011 at 08:42 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Open Social Learning Guild

In the ACM: Ashwin Ram on Open Social Learning. Some good ideas about how to take the obsessions of the youner generation and use them to make learning more efficient... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | June 8, 2011 at 03:31 PM

From Computational Complexity

The Longest Day

Tuesday at FCRC. 7 AM: A grad student at Northwestern administers my final exam at 9 AM Chicago time. He has my mobile number just in case but luckily I neverpaper... Lance
From Computational Complexity | June 8, 2011 at 03:12 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Generosity at Work

Harvard post on key success strategies at work, focusing on generosity. Very well put, it is not always reciprocated, but almost always works. Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | June 8, 2011 at 03:09 PM

From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Is Wikipedia anti-intellectual?

Sander recently posted a provocative piece where he argues that geeks suffer from anti-intellectualism. To some extend, his stance is that democratic sites such... Daniel Lemire
From Daniel Lemire's Blog | June 8, 2011 at 02:40 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Revenue Performance Management

An overview of Revenue Performance Management (RPM), which we were always doing, but saw some traction a few years ago. It appears to be driven increasingly to... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | June 8, 2011 at 02:05 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Linked in Games

In Mashable. You can now play a whimsical Tetris-like game in Linkedin with profile head-shots. Does not drive you to a serious goal. But could make you stay on... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | June 8, 2011 at 01:54 PM

From Putting People First

WHO report on mHealth

The World Health Organisation has just issued a major (free) report on mHealth, entitled “mHealth: New horizons for health through mobile technologies“. Abstract... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 8, 2011 at 10:47 AM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

TouchStudio

OK you have a smart phone and you want to create an application for it. But you don Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | June 8, 2011 at 09:58 AM

From Wild WebMink

Happy IPv6 Day

The why and wherefore of IPv6 Day, as well as plenty of handy links, are over on my blog at ComputerWorldUK. Simon Phipps
From Wild WebMink | June 8, 2011 at 07:08 AM