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The Computer Science Ecosystem
From My Biased Coin

The Computer Science Ecosystem

Inspired a bit by some inspirational, high-level talks I've seen the last few days (see Matt's take on Ed Lazowska's talk at Harvard here), I've been thinking about...

New Way to Measure WOM
From The Eponymous Pickle

New Way to Measure WOM

A new way to measure word-of-mouth marketing from McKinsey that includes exposure and impact.

Book: Storytelling for User Experience
From Putting People First

Book: Storytelling for User Experience

Storytelling for User Experience – Crafting Stories for Better Design By Whitney Quesenbery & Kevin Brooks Rosenfeld Media April 2010 Availability: Paperback +...

Neuromarketing List
From The Eponymous Pickle

Neuromarketing List

A new neuromarketing Twitter list being constructed #neuromarketing Online here. Looks to have some useful follows.

Frugal and Bandit Innovation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Frugal and Bandit Innovation

Sammy Haroon in the Global Cognition Blog on Frugal and Bandit Innovation.

Moile Acts Differently in Store
From The Eponymous Pickle

Moile Acts Differently in Store

An intriguing idea at Barnes & Noble. This also can cause people to enter the store, a loyalty play: In StoreFrontBacktalk: " ... For this experiment, Barnes...

Thoughts About Online Reputation
From The Noisy Channel

Thoughts About Online Reputation

Sorry for the long delay between posts. Fortunately the blogosphere has been providing ample reading material about the saga of the lost iPhone and the war of words...

Computational Knowledge Summit
From The Eponymous Pickle

Computational Knowledge Summit

From the Wolfram Blog, a London Computational Knowledge Summit, being held on June 9. Some interesting topics covered:

Rhymes for Our Times
From The Eponymous Pickle

Rhymes for Our Times

A long time advertising expert colleague of mine, Norm Levy, who pioneered a number of marketing techniques used broadly in an enterprise I was entrenched in,See...

Data Mining and Infection Control
From The Eponymous Pickle

Data Mining and Infection Control

A piece from the ACM on infection control using data mining, we were also involved in a project that addressed a similar problem. Good description. ' ... According...

South Africa
From Computer Science Teachers Association

South Africa

I recently had the opportunity to travel to South Africa to talk with teachers and computer science education faculty about the computing curriculum in South African...

Introduction to the Polymath Project and
From Michael Nielsen

Introduction to the Polymath Project and

In January of 2009, Tim Gowers initiated an experiment in massively collaborative mathematics, the Polymath Project. The initial stage of this project...

links for 2010-05-01
From Wild WebMink

links for 2010-05-01

Red Hat Prevails Against Patent Trolls in Federal District Court Given the warnings from Steve Jobs about the gathering attack on open source, this has the feeling...

RIM
From Putting People First

RIM

A Canadian article about Canada’s most important technology company, Research in Motion (the makers of the Blackberry), is always worth delving into. “RIM captured...

UX book reviews: May 2010
From Putting People First

UX book reviews: May 2010

The folks at Johnny Holland have published reviews on no less than four UX related books: Beyond the Usability Lab Authors: Bill Albert, Donna Tedesco, Thomas Tullis...

Design driven prison design in Belgium
From Putting People First

Design driven prison design in Belgium

Flanders InShape, the Flemish/Belgian competence centre for product development and industrial design, is supporting a new research project on the development of...

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Purity Test
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Purity Test

I didn't know this: A Squid is a motorcycle rider who, experienced or not, rides outside his abilities and sets poor examples by attire, propriety, and general...

Homeopathic Bomb
From Schneier on Security

Homeopathic Bomb

This is funny: The world has been placed on a heightened security alert following reports that New Age terrorists have harnessed the power of homeopathy for evil...

Cuddle Hormone
From The Eponymous Pickle

Cuddle Hormone

Does the 'Cuddle Hormone' make men more empathetic? And where do such focused solutions end up? " ... "This study is the latest of several that suggest that intranasal...

Towards a Finnish user needs based service economy
From Putting People First

Towards a Finnish user needs based service economy

Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund [disclaimer: and Experientia client] has launched a new book, After the Crisis, and a report, Finland: Wellsprings for a Vital...
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