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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 Putting People First
Re-framing the problem: social interaction design
Social media expert and social interaction theorist Adrian Chan describes on Johnny Holland on what he means with ’social interaction design’ and on the role of...
From Putting People First
Converting those who have no desire to be converted
80% of the transactions of the UK Government are done with the bottom 25% of society and migrating services online offers great cost savings. Yet, 17 million Britons...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Extracting Knowledge from the Web
In the enterprise we discovered how difficult it was to construct all the rules to provide the capabilities required for even a narrow slice of corporate knowledge...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Contactless at Home Depot and Best Buy
At StorefrontBacktalk ... a good report on how contactless payment is progressing. Though I see the devices everywhere, it seems not as well as we were told just...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SAS and Social Network Analysis
SAS announced a new product that does social network analysis (SNA). This is something we experimented with inside the enterprise, initially with plain old e-mail...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Emotions in Virtual Characters
In ZDNet:" .. Spanish researchers have developed a computer model able to generate virtual faces which display emotions and moods according to personality traits...
From Wild WebMink
? Marketing In The Connected Age
Readers here may be interested in the article I just posted on my personal blog.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Do Web Sites Matter?
From Paul Gillin's Social Media Blog: Why Web Sites don't matter. He has some interesting points, but I disagree. I don't always want to engage with someone or...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Faith in 140 Characters
In the NYT, some examples of religious groups using Twitter. They make an odd kind of implied assumption that faiths are different from other interactions among...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Pedagogy, innovation and convenience
Organizing learning around courses implies the creation of groups and a tight control by professors.
From Return 42;
Notification Message Dispatch for MooTools
If someone would ask me about what my favorite feature of Apple's Cocoa framework is, I would probably respond with NSNotificationCenter. In my opinion, it is incredibly...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-07-15
International Free and Open Source Software Law Review A good development - peer reviewed, web delivered, free of charge. I'llFOSS...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SocialText Deploys Microblogging
Socialtext, which I have used inside the enterprise for wiki implementations, has now deployed a microblogging appliance capability, this is unbundled from their...
From Putting People First
For Uganda
In a country where people don’t have electricity, much less Internet access, the Grameen Foundation partners with Google to relay information through mobile phones...
From Putting People First
The digital age of rights
The digitally deprived have rights too, says BBC News columnist Bill Thompson, who is quite upset about a new French law: “If it is unacceptable to cut people off...
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What you don
Olga Morawczynski, a doctoral candidate at the University of Edinburgh and has spent more than a year investigating customer adoption and usage in both urban and...
From Putting People First
danah boyd on new habits in a connected world
danah boyd, a researcher at Microsoft Research New England and a Fellow at the Harvard University Berkman Center for Internet and Society, got incensed at an Italian...
From Putting People First