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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 The Eponymous Pickle
How little do People Actually Read?
Jakob Nielsen pulls together data from eyetracking about how little people actually read on a web. Its mostly scanning I know, but it is worse than you think: ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Media as a Commodity
Good piece by Dave Fleet posts on social media as a commodity. Anyone can provide it, but what do good clients care about when you provide the service?
From The Noisy Channel
Journalism Is Not Like Craigslist
In response to a meeting sponsored by the Newspaper Association of America about “Models to Monetize Content” (i.e., how to charge for online news), Scott Rosenberg...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Stop Generating Metadata and Access the Full Content!
Many researchers advocate the use of metadata to help find or recommend content automatically. Metadata is certainly useful when aggregating content for human...
From The Noisy Channel
Page
I hesitate to cite Valleywag as a news source, but I did read there that Sergey Brin is crediting fellow Google co-founder Larry Page with “Page’s Law“, the assertion...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Re-inventing E-Mail
Google is attempting to re-invent e-mail. This is a good overview article. In Gmail they have been adding little pieces of functionality, with varying levels'...
From Putting People First
Tinkering to the future
Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, researcher director at the Institute for the Future, is working on a book on the end of cyberspace
From Putting People First
Nokia
In a long article in The Register, Andrew Orlowski looks at the many problems Nokia faced the other day with the launch of its Ovi Store, and criticises the company...
From Putting People First
Glued to the machine and going for broke
Natasha Schull, assistant professor in the MIT Program in Science, Technology, and Society, says Vegas gambling machines designed to get people to ‘play to extinction’...
From Putting People First
In defense of distraction
New York Magazine has published a long article by Sam Anderson on “Twitter, Adderall, lifehacking, mindful jogging, power browsing, Obama
From The Noisy Channel
Waiting for the Big Bing
Everyone is talking about Bing today–well, everyone who isn’t too busy watching Google do the Wave. If you haven’t been paying attention, Microsoft is about to...
From Putting People First
CGAP podcast with Jonathan Donner of Microsoft Research India
Leading up to the 2009 Mobile Money Summit CGAP, an independent policy and research centre dedicated to advancing financial access for the world’s poor, is running...
From Putting People First
Africa banks on cell phones
Global Post reports on how millions in Ghana are entering the banking system through mobile phone system. “Nobody stands to benefit quite like Africa’s increasingly...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Jim Stengel
I was late in discovering this, but former P&G CMO Jim Stengel has a web site which promotes his ideas and forthcoming book. ' ... This website captures the journey...
From The Noisy Channel
2009 Enterprise Search Sourcebook
I just noticed that the 2009 edition of the Enterprise Search Sourcebook is now available. Published by Information Today, it’s a nice way to survey the landscape...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Federal Advisory Board Recommends Updates to Nation
The Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board (ISPAB) recently released a report to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on the need...
From Putting People First
Vodafone
Stephen Wolak, the brain behind Vodafone’s Betavine community, has launched a new social change community “where we look at how mobile technology and mobile services...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-05-28
Decoding antiquity: Eight scripts that still can't be read Fascinating overview of the challenges deciphering ancient languages...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
White House To Try Online Brainstorming for Open Government
One of the earliest official actions of the Obama Administration was to issue a memorandum requesting a set of recommendations to inform an Open Government Directive...
From The Eponymous Pickle