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Africa banks on cell phones
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...

Jim Stengel
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...

2009 Enterprise Search Sourcebook
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...

Federal Advisory Board Recommends Updates to Nation
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...

Vodafone
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...

links for 2009-05-28
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...

White House To Try Online Brainstorming for Open Government
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...

Free vs Good
From The Eponymous Pickle

Free vs Good

Have just become involved in the early setup days of another start up. A virtual start up where many folks will be widely distributed and often traveling. TheMore...

Make your research papers easy to skim
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Make your research papers easy to skim

Claus Metzner asked us how often we read research papers in detail. He reads fully less than 1% of all research papers he comes across. This must be true of nearly...

WolframAlpha's Terms of Use
From The Eponymous Pickle

WolframAlpha's Terms of Use

Examining WolframAlpha's terms of service. Its a computational service, not a search engine. So the implications for use are different.

Nokia
From Putting People First

Nokia

Nokia Conversations is reporting on a rare behind-closed-doors Nokia design event dubbed The Inside Story. According to a first post, Alastair Curtis, Head of Design...

The changing TV experience
From Putting People First

The changing TV experience

Consumer Electronics 3.0 is the name Intel has chosen for a new concept of seamless integration of internet and television. The CE 3.0 website is rich in content...

Education Policy Hill Briefing Highlights Computer Science Education
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

Education Policy Hill Briefing Highlights Computer Science Education

A Hill briefing co-sponsored by the ACM Education Policy Committee, with the support of the House STEM Education Caucus and the Congressional Black Caucus covered...

links for 2009-05-27
From Wild WebMink

links for 2009-05-27

Matthew Alexander: Former Senior Interrogator in Iraq Dissects Cheney's Lies and Distortions Well worth reading this commentary...

Topsy: Tippling the Stream of Conversations
From The Noisy Channel

Topsy: Tippling the Stream of Conversations

Cited as “amazing” by the master of hype, TechCrunch’s Mike Arrington, it’s…Topsy: “The first index is based exclusively on Twitter statuses and the wonderful people...

Topsy: Tippling the Stream of Conversations
From The Noisy Channel

Topsy: Tippling the Stream of Conversations

Cited as “amazing” by the master of hype, TechCrunch’s Mike Arrington, it’s…Topsy: “The first index is based exclusively on Twitter statuses and the wonderful people...

FAST Interns
From The Eponymous Pickle

FAST Interns

In 1997 Pete Blackshaw (Now exec VP at Nielsen) created an internship program call FAST at P&G which provided a means for interns to communicate directly withAn...

when teachers and students connect outside school
From Apophenia

when teachers and students connect outside school

In my last entry, I made a comment about the value of "cool" teachers interacting with students on social network sites. I received some push-back from non-educators...

Selling user experience
From Putting People First

Selling user experience

Daniel Szuc is a principal consultant at a Apogee Usability Asia Ltd, based in Hong Kong, and previously worked on a usability team for Telstra Australia. When...

Is design the preeminent protagonist in user experience?
From Putting People First

Is design the preeminent protagonist in user experience?

The latest issue of Ubiquity, a web-based publication of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), contains a fascinating account by Phillip Tobias on the...
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