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Facebook Increases 700 Percent
From The Eponymous Pickle

Facebook Increases 700 Percent

Social networking sites continue to expand. Blogging traffic is slipping. Reason is likely the simplicity and ease of short snippets versus longer posts. Probably...

Autographs on the Kindle
From CSDiary

Autographs on the Kindle

Last Sunday’s NY Times had an amusing article about people going to book-signings and asking authors to autograph their Kindle ebook readers. Well, gee, I guess...

On Innovation in Manufacturing
From The Eponymous Pickle

On Innovation in Manufacturing

Sammy Haroon and Tony Tsai, two former enterprise colleagues of mine pass along comments on the Accenture Roudtable report about innovation in manufacturing.

Digital at Unilever
From The Eponymous Pickle

Digital at Unilever

New from Unilever in Adage: ' ... Digital media and branded content largely have been seen as strategies for mature markets where TV advertising faces its greatest...

The social life of health information
From Putting People First

The social life of health information

The Pew Internet & American Life Project has published a report that shows how Americans’ pursuit of health takes place within a widening network of both online...

The rules for balancing technology and relationships
From Putting People First

The rules for balancing technology and relationships

Emma Cook asks in The Times of London if our increasing desire to stay in the loop is distracting us from the people who should matter the most in our lives. “According...

Hunch Has Launched
From The Noisy Channel

Hunch Has Launched

For anyone who has been waiting to try Hunch (which really is a “decision engine“) but didn’t manage to snarf an invite, today is your lucky day: Hunch has launched...

links for 2009-06-15
From Wild WebMink

links for 2009-06-15

American ending 'Nerd Bird" nonstops to Silicon Valley from Austin Uh-oh. Serious blow to the Sun folks working in Austin.Travel...

Hill Tech Happenings, Week of June 15
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

Hill Tech Happenings, Week of June 15

June 16 Hearing: The Research and Science Education and the Technology and Innovation Subcommittees of the House Science and Technology Committee will hold a...

From business to buttons
From Putting People First

From business to buttons

Interaction designers, business strategists and usability experts gathered last week in Malmö, Sweden for the third edition of the “From Business to Buttons” conference...

Identity crisis in the West and innovation in the developing world
From Putting People First

Identity crisis in the West and innovation in the developing world

Nokia’s Ideas Project published two feature stories today: Digital We: A (Multiple) Identity Crisis We create new digital identities almost without limit – at the...

Nokia to offer Life Tools for rural mobile users
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...

Smartphone rises fast from gadget to necessity
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...

Anthropologist Stefana Broadbent speaker at TEDGlobal
From Putting People First

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...

US Government providing cellphones for the poor
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...

Products are worthless
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...

Don
From The Noisy Channel

Don

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”...

Name Trends in Wolfram Alpha
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...

Taking Another Look at Flu Model Accuracy
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...

Michalski talk on Bing
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...
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