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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Creating Stories: Storify
Brought to my attention: Storify: Now investigating. Create stories using social media. Turn what people post on social media into compelling stories.Collect the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Linkedin Company Search
In Readwriteweb: Linkedin has a new search capability that lets you look at how you are connected to companies. A nice idea with some subtle capabilities. Though...
From Putting People First
Reflections on the LIFT conference on Core77
A few weeks ago, I went to the LIFT conference in Geneva, Switzerland. It took me a some time to write up all my (personal) thoughts on the presentations, but now...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Way for Analytics
My colleague, Sammy Haroon, writes about a new way for analytics.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neurocinema
Good Fast Company article on Neurocinema: The use of neural scanning techniques, like those used in Neuromarketing, to understand how film viewers react to on...
From The Eponymous Pickle
2011 the Year for Semantic Technology
Good overview article on the opportunities for semantic technologies this year. " ... Semantic technology will increasingly be recognized as a tool that helps...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Changes Search
Google announced changes in it's search algorithms yesterday. Initially only implemented for US searchers. Which they say will improve the quality of results...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Interactive China Province Map
Mark Perry points to an excellent Economist interactive map of the Chinese provinces, their population, GDP, exports, etc. Useful data for modeling. Could have...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-02-25
UK Government defines open standards as royalty free Excellent move here, although of course the devil is in the details. The big problem with getting open source...
From Schneier on Security
HBGary and the Future of the IT Security Industry
This is a really good piece by Paul Roberts on Anonymous vs. HBGary: not the tactics or the politics, but what HBGary demonstrates about the IT security industry...
From Wild WebMink
? The Open Source Procurement Challenge
I am speaking at the ODF Plugfest here in the UK this morning, on the subject of the challenges facing the procurement of open source software by traditional enterprises...
From Putting People First
On the UX revolution coming up
Two articles in UX Magazine describe upcoming UX revolutions: data and the user interface. The UX of data By Scott Jenson / February 17th 2011 Data storage in the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Governing Predictive Analytics
In Information Management, a short article, mostly common sense, but a good reminder of how to address an analytical problem. " .... Six Steps to Governing Analytics...
From The Eponymous Pickle
RFID News Update
The RFID Journal is always a good place to go for the latest news on tagging things. Check out their useful and detailed news update.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dole Tests QR Codes
Good detailed example of the use of QR codes. Have mentioned them many times here. We tested their use in the aisle for locational 'check in': " ... It was a...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USACM Comments on Federal Trade Commission Online Privacy Report
On February 18th, USACM submitted comments in response to the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) preliminary staff report concerning online privacy. Titled ?Protecting...
From Wild WebMink
? OBR Progress Report
The Open-By-Rule Benchmark I talked about recently has now had several workouts, and there are a number more under review ready for future posting. So far, it seems...
From The Eponymous Pickle