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Visual Attention Scanning
From The Eponymous Pickle

Visual Attention Scanning

From Mind Hacks, of paricular interest for anyone like myself, who is looking at new biometric methods for understanding the consumer in their multiple decision...

Even Google Should Beware Of Hubris
From The Noisy Channel

Even Google Should Beware Of Hubris


The ACM Banquet
From CERIAS Blog

The ACM Banquet

Tonight (June 27) was the annual ACM Awards Banquet. This event is where various awards and recognitions are made, although most are announced well in advance.Turing...

Are Spammers Taking Over Twitter?
From The Noisy Channel

Are Spammers Taking Over Twitter?


Aardvark Burrows Out Of Beta
From The Noisy Channel

Aardvark Burrows Out Of Beta

I just received an email from Max Ventilla, CEO of social search startup Aardvark, to let me know that Aardvark is now open to anyone who wants to sign up. Well...

IBM Lattice Geometry Privacy Breakthrough
From The Eponymous Pickle

IBM Lattice Geometry Privacy Breakthrough

Mark Montgomery writes: ' ... Every once in a while someone's small idea leads to something huge. This could be one of those depending on how it plays out, providing...

Business Intelligence Tools Analysis
From The Eponymous Pickle

Business Intelligence Tools Analysis

Dan Vesset and Brian McDonough of IDC provide an overview of the state of of Business intelligence tools: 'In 2008, the business intelligence (BI) tools market...

CIFellows Application Stats Posted
From CSDiary

CIFellows Application Stats Posted

I’ve been pretty busy for the past couple of months, in part because of my involvement as the PI for the CCC’s Computing Innovation Fellows Project. The response...

CIFellows Status Report
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

CIFellows Status Report

Less than six weeks ago we launched the Computing Innovation Fellows Project.

Coupon Strategies Hasten towards Mobile
From The Eponymous Pickle

Coupon Strategies Hasten towards Mobile

On the coupon strategies of retail until the day we go all mobile. As newspapers die and fraud continues. ' ... Many retailers had hoped that paper coupons will...

Netflix competition is over?
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Netflix competition is over?

The

Star Trek Tech
From CSDiary

Star Trek Tech

How much of the technology in Star Trek could become real some day? This was the question posed to a group of faculty members here at Carnegie Mellon Computer Science...

Confidence vs Expertise
From The Eponymous Pickle

Confidence vs Expertise

Dan Ariely's blog describes a study where participants were more influenced by confidence versus expertise. Very true, though very often confidence comes from expertise...

Martin Lindstrom Newsletter
From The Eponymous Pickle

Martin Lindstrom Newsletter

Martin Lindstrom, author of Buyology and Brandsense and one of Time's 100 most influential people, has just started an online newsletter. You can sign up here.site...

Search Innovation: Why Can
From The Noisy Channel

Search Innovation: Why Can


Arup Foresight
From Putting People First

Arup Foresight

Arup’s Drivers of Change initiative is an on-going research programme exploring those issues most likely to have a major impact upon society, on Arup

Microsoft
From Putting People First

Microsoft

Navi Radjou writes on HarvardBusiness.org that he recently visited the Microsoft Research India lab in Bangalore, describes what he learned about their Technology...

Service Design, a short essay by Jennifer Bove
From Putting People First

Service Design, a short essay by Jennifer Bove

Service design, while often talked about in academia, is getting more and more attention from design companies and service providers, as the impact of experience...

And Bing
From The Noisy Channel

And Bing


Generational Baloney?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Generational Baloney?

Controversial, but I liked this. Classification is a powerful tool, but it also is capable at driving a lot of bad conclusions. I may not agree with all of this...
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