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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
Nokia to offer Life Tools for rural mobile users
Nokia plans to roll out its Life Tools group of services to more emerging markets following a successful pilot program in India, a company executive said Monday...
From Putting People First
Smartphone rises fast from gadget to necessity
The increasing popularity of BlackBerrys, iPhones and their kin owes as much to sociology as technology. Steve Lohr reports in The New York Times. “The smartphone...
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Anthropologist Stefana Broadbent speaker at TEDGlobal
Stefana Broadbent, the acclaimed tech anthropologist, will be an invited speaker at the upcoming TEDGlobal conference (21-24 July, Oxford, UK). Stefana is currently...
From Putting People First
US Government providing cellphones for the poor
A US federal program providing subsidized phone service now offers cellphones, showing how much society values them, reports The New York Times. “The users are...
From Putting People First
Products are worthless
A somewhat controversial post by Helge Tennø, strategic director and digital planner at digital agency Screenplay in Oslo, Norway. “Products are just stuff, and...
From The Noisy Channel
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Now this is the sort of publicity that even $100M can’t buy: the New York Post is reporting that, in response to Microsoft’s recent Bing launch, “FEAR GRIPS GOOGLE”...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Name Trends in Wolfram Alpha
One unexpected thing you can do with the WolframAlpha computational search engine is to determine naming trends. Fascinating, yes, but also a bit of minutiae as...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Taking Another Look at Flu Model Accuracy
A while back I mentioned the inaccuracy of recent very sophisticated flu models and my general theories about how these models can go wrong. Continue to think about...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Michalski talk on Bing
Jerry Michalski ... Microsoft recently re-set its search service, rebranding it as Bing and calling it a "decision engine." It does do a few things better, such...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kindle in Business
I have followed readers for a number of years now. tested the Sony. Never been completely impressed. A convenience at the beach perhaps, if you can read through...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tagging and Sharing Images
Image Spark:- Discover, tag, share, converge images that inspire your and your work. This is a good description of what I have always wanted to do with images...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-06-13
VirtualBox Premium Edition: Amazon.co.uk Delighted to see VirtualBox showing up as a retail item. Yes, those of us who know can...
From Putting People First
In South Korea, all of life is mobile
Somehow I missed out on this 24 May New York Times article about South Korea being the test case for the mobile future, thanks to its high-speed wireless networks...
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Bill Thompson, BBC tech art critic at the Venice Biennale
Bill Thompson, back from the Venice Biennale, reflects on digital art and its relationship with technology. “While there was a lot of interesting art, I saw little...
From Putting People First
What will mobile phones look like 10 years from now?
When Fast Company asked some people in the industry what mobile phones will look like 10 years from now, the first couple of answers seem to reinforce my gut feeling...
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Reflections on ethnography in the new issue of Stanford
The latest issue of Ambidextrous, Stanford University’s journal of design, has just been published. The issue is entirely online. Two of my favourite articles: Mind...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Some shameful facts about myself
In 2003, I predicted that it would take decades before videoconferencing became cheap enough for home users. I do not know my own telephone number or postal code...
From The Noisy Channel
Guest Post at the Federated Search Blog
I wrote a guest post at Sol Lederman’s Federated Search blog entitled “The Problem with Federated Search“. Here’s an excerpt: The case for federated search is straightforward...
From The Eponymous Pickle