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Internet View
From The Eponymous Pickle

Internet View

A precient view of the internet from 1969.-

Sector/Sphere beats Hadoop. Again.
From Return 42;

Sector/Sphere beats Hadoop. Again.

Clouds are everywhere. Next to endless options for cloud hosting, there are even more possibilities and platforms to perform cloud computing itself. The most popular...

Time on on Web Diminishing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Time on on Web Diminishing

In AdAge. Not for me. And some of the comments believe that it is an artifact of measurement. Yet it does have to flatten eventually.

Google and Semantic Search
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google and Semantic Search

Semantic analysis. An area of interest. In readwriteweb and in Computerworld. Google is continuing to improve search that includes semantic concepts. What does...

Building CS in South Carolina
From Computer Science Teachers Association

Building CS in South Carolina

This blog is like the blogs I have seen people writing in real time during conference presentations. I am writing this in the middle of our Advanced Placementwill...

Experience sampling on the iPhone
From Putting People First

Experience sampling on the iPhone

Can the Apple iPhone measure your happiness, asks Jenna Wortham on the New York Times Bits blog. “Matt Killingsworth, a doctoral candidate in psychology at Harvard...

Seven Rules of Interpersonal Relationships
From The Eponymous Pickle

Seven Rules of Interpersonal Relationships

These are fairly obvious, but worth some further thought.-

User research at Apple
From Putting People First

User research at Apple

In a truly excellent article, entitled “You can’t innovate like Apple”, Alain Breillatt also discusses Apple’s approach to user research. “While I

SIGIR 2009: Day 3, Industry Track: Matt Cutts
From The Noisy Channel

SIGIR 2009: Day 3, Industry Track: Matt Cutts


Would the real social network please stand up?
From Apophenia

Would the real social network please stand up?

This ideas in this post are based on conversations with Bernie Hogan and should be interpreted as the production of our co-thinking. All too frequently, someone...

IBM to Acquire SPSS
From The Eponymous Pickle

IBM to Acquire SPSS

Big news in analytics world. The article says to do better predictive analytics. In the enterprise SPSS and SAS have been heavily used since the 6os. Quite an acquisition...

Disney Ad Research
From The Eponymous Pickle

Disney Ad Research

In the NYT: Lab Watches Web Surfers to See Which Ads Work. How they are using eye tracking and other biometric techiques to understand how ads work. As always...

Business Intelligence in Manufacturing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Business Intelligence in Manufacturing

New overview paper in business intelligence issues in manufacturing by MAIA. Covers much of the typical context of BI for manufacturing. Not prescriptive but good...

People will be able to control and federate their own data
From Putting People First

People will be able to control and federate their own data

John Clippinger, who directs the Law Lab at Harvard University, predicts, in this video on Nokia’s IdeasProject, a huge shift over the next one to two years in...

Stanford seminars on people, computers and design
From Putting People First

Stanford seminars on people, computers and design

“CS547. Human-Computer Interaction Seminar (Seminar on People, Computers, and Design)” is a course of the Stanford HCI Group, coordinated by Terry Winograd, on...

Say Everything
From The Eponymous Pickle

Say Everything

Say Everything: How Blogging Began, What It's Becoming, and Why It Matters by Scott RosenbergA history of blogging to date with interpretation along the way. I...

SIGIR 2009: Day 2, Albert-L
From The Noisy Channel

SIGIR 2009: Day 2, Albert-L


Theory of Games and Economic Misbehavior
From The Eponymous Pickle

Theory of Games and Economic Misbehavior

By George Dyson in the Edge. The historian of science takes on math models of economies. A bit dense in its historical references, but makes you think.

What is the interest created by conversational currency?
From Putting People First

What is the interest created by conversational currency?

As the world moves to accommodate

Conceptual consumption
From Putting People First

Conceptual consumption

An article in the New York Times Magazine brought me to an interesting article by behavioural economist Daniel Ariely, who has been featured previously on this...
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