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Co-creation: not just another focus group
From Putting People First

Co-creation: not just another focus group

To launch Twist, a new men’s fragrance in its global Axe brand, Unilever turned to a preapproved crowd of eager young amateurs for help. Venessa Wong reports in...

Robotic Presentations
From The Eponymous Pickle

Robotic Presentations

Richard James points me to Phil Presents, by Phil Waknell (ex-P&G, ex-HP). Which covers a number of topics, including robotic presentations. He now runs a company...

Get Unvarnished!
From The Noisy Channel

Get Unvarnished!

Earlier this week, I read about Unvarnished on TechCrunch and was extremely curious about this “Yelp for LinkedIn” making a bold play in the online reputation space...

RFID Journal News Roundup
From The Eponymous Pickle

RFID Journal News Roundup

We followed the technology of RFID for a number of years as it applied to retail on shelf and inventory applications. We tested many related ideas in the innovation...

GENI Experimenters Workshop
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

GENI Experimenters Workshop

Those of you who haven’t taken a look at the GENI project in the last year or two need to do so. The name is the same, but the project is totally different, and...

Explosive Breast Implants -- Not an April Fool's Joke
From Schneier on Security

Explosive Breast Implants -- Not an April Fool's Joke

Is MI5 playing a joke on us? Female homicide bombers are being fitted with exploding breast implants which are almost impossible to detect, British spies havecould...

Jan Chipchase (Nokia) guest blogging for CGAP
From Putting People First

Jan Chipchase (Nokia) guest blogging for CGAP

The title might be a bit cryptic for some readers, but Jan Chipchase is a well-known user researcher/anthropologist at Nokia. He spent a decade exploring the intersection...

From Computational Complexity

Lets Prove Something instead of proving that we can't prove something

We complexity theorists seem more concerned with proving that we can't prove things than with actually proving things!!!! There have been two workshop on Barriers...

External-Memory Sorting in Java
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

External-Memory Sorting in Java

Sometimes, you want to sort large file without first loading them into memory. The solution is to use External Sorting. Typically, you divide the files into small...

Meaning Driven Brands
From The Eponymous Pickle

Meaning Driven Brands

A look at the meaning of brands in Design Mind.-

? It Can Get Worse
From Wild WebMink

? It Can Get Worse

Yes, #debill is even worse than you thought. Plus OggCamp, great geek t-shirts, new national park and more.

Fifth Annual Movie-Plot Threat Contest
From Schneier on Security

Fifth Annual Movie-Plot Threat Contest

Once upon a time, men and women throughout the land lived in fear. This caused them to do foolish things that made them feel better temporarily, but didn't make...

Resources for Teaching Binary Numbers
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Resources for Teaching Binary Numbers

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Wolfram Alpha Mobile Site Drops Price
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wolfram Alpha Mobile Site Drops Price

It is reported in ReadWriteWeb: ' ... Once upon a time, Wolfram Alpha tried to charge $50 for its iPhone app while, at the same time, offering a free iPhone-optimized...

Facebook
From Computer Science Teachers Association

Facebook

As computer science educators, we think of ourselves as computer savvy. We are knowledgeable about social networks and online communities. I'll wager that a good...

The Photography Business
From The Eponymous Pickle

The Photography Business

I was previously involved with a startup company that sought to bridge the gap between amateur and professional photographers. There have since been many changes...

? Digital Liberty Activism
From Wild WebMink

? Digital Liberty Activism

For @uupc listeners: How to take action on BBC DRM, the Digital Economy Bill, ACTA and the UK Elections.

Pushing the Drive-Through Concept
From The Eponymous Pickle

Pushing the Drive-Through Concept

We looked at this through a number of drive-through supercenter concepts. A good overview article in the Chicago Tribune. Online is open 24/7, so why not have a...

Security Cameras in the New York City Subways
From Schneier on Security

Security Cameras in the New York City Subways

The New York Times has an article about cameras in the subways. The article is all about how horrible it is that the cameras don't work: Moreover, nearly half...

Policy Highlights from Communications of the ACM - March 2010 (Vol. 53, No. 3)
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

Policy Highlights from Communications of the ACM - March 2010 (Vol. 53, No. 3)

Below is a list of items with policy relevance from the March issue of Communications of the ACM. As always, much of the material in CACM is premium content, and...
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