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E-Mail Cautionary Tale
From The Eponymous Pickle

E-Mail Cautionary Tale

In Slashdot a cautionary tale about how easy, cheap and relatively risk free it is to have third parties hack a public e-mail account. Have been involved in cases...

Relational databases: are they obselete?
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Relational databases: are they obselete?

Michael Stonebraker is predicting that the dominance of the generic relational database is coming to an end. Having recently founded several database companies,

Visualizing Global Brand Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Visualizing Global Brand Data

A very interesting visualization of global brand data, a mix of geographic, network and more typical business intelligence graphics. Probably not the simplest way...

From Computational Complexity

Announcing a New Blog: Silent Glen Speaks

There is another Theory Blogger: Silent Glen. How can a blogger by silent? Sounds like a contradiction in terms! Hope its not a contradiction since she is already...

Simple Portfolio Analysis
From The Eponymous Pickle

Simple Portfolio Analysis

Today I attended a webinar by Gary L. Lilien on teaching portfolio analysis using the GE/McKinsey approach. He is author of the book Marketing Engineering. Have...

Printing Police Handcuff Keys
From Schneier on Security

Printing Police Handcuff Keys

Using a 3D printer. Impressive. At the end of the day he talked the officers into trying the key on their handcuffs and

Grameen Foundation: mHealth ethnography report
From Putting People First

Grameen Foundation: mHealth ethnography report

One of the projects of AppLab, the application laboratory of the Grameen Foundation, is focused on mobile technology for community health (MoTeCH) in Ghana: “Grameen...

Random Musings for the Day
From My Biased Coin

Random Musings for the Day

I like Daniel Lemire's post on "the truth" about research grants so much, I'm linking to it.Richard Lipton is taking bets on whether P = NP; well, not really,substantially...

Mayo Clinic
From Putting People First

Mayo Clinic

This week the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation hosted Transform, a collaborative symposium on innovations in health care experience and delivery. The symposium...

Long Lasting Perfume Delivery
From The Eponymous Pickle

Long Lasting Perfume Delivery

Procter & Gamble's Connect & Develop program requests input for technical solutions to long lasting perfume delivery system.

Neuroscience Picks top Emmy Winners
From The Eponymous Pickle

Neuroscience Picks top Emmy Winners

Sands Research claims to have predicted the top Emmy Awards (three out of top five) with their EEG based NEF scores, details in post, plus links to their previous...

Report from the AZ Leadership Cohort
From Computer Science Teachers Association

Report from the AZ Leadership Cohort

I am fortunate that my fellow Arizona representative on the Leadership Cohort, Renee Ciezki, is a friend from the same school district. Although this has probably...

Neuromarketing Overview
From The Eponymous Pickle

Neuromarketing Overview

From Kevin Randall at FastCompany: Neuromarketing Hope and Hype: 5 Brands Conducting Brain Research. Reasonably short, but necessarily incomplete overview of the...

From Computational Complexity

Fashionable Research

A student asks "How do you survive in the academic world if what you want to do is not fashionable?"   You shouldn't necessarily focus your research on the currently...

New at Qwaq
From The Eponymous Pickle

New at Qwaq

Received a note about updates at Qwaq: Virtual Spaces for Real Work. Much surprised they have not received more traction. We took a look a few years ago and I have...

Yahoo!
From Putting People First

Yahoo!

Archana Rai of LiveMint.com, the online edition of Mint, an Indian partner publication of the Wall Street Journal, has interviewed Elizabeth Churchill of Yahoo!...

This happened
From Putting People First

This happened

This happened is a series of London-based events focusing on the stories behind interaction design. “Having ideas is easier than making them happen. We delve into...

Wayfinding through technology
From Putting People First

Wayfinding through technology

Cennydd Bowles, a user experience designer for Clearleft, discusses how people form mental models of urban environments, and how technology can augment and even...

Smartphones vs Desktops
From The Eponymous Pickle

Smartphones vs Desktops

Although smartphones have made considerable progress in being business friendly tools Forrester suggests that desktops still rule for business applications. We...

Udorse: Give Product Placement a Chance
From The Noisy Channel

Udorse: Give Product Placement a Chance

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