Will the Mesh business model work for you?
Check the video from Lisa Gansky: The future of business is the “mesh” She shows how this business model works, sharing physical goods peer-to-peer.
Author: Corina Ciechanow
Watson’s Revealed the 22-Feb!
The 22nd. of February check NOVA’s article Smartest Machine: Expert Q&A, where Watson’s Team Leader David Ferrucci will answered selected questions.
Companies based on higher purpose are moving crowds
Here Robin Cangie is talking about Bolder, Kickstarter, Edot and many other companies that are enacting real social change on the social web: What Does a 21st-Century Business Look Like? The missions and business models of these companies vary widely, but there are three main things that they all have in common: 1. They depend Read More …
Well Done, Watson!
Yesterday, Watson performed fantastically until last question at the Jeopardy TV show. Here’s that last one: Question (in category “U.S. Cities”): “Its largest airport is named for a world war II hero; its second largest for a world war II battle.” Watson’s Answer: “Toronto?????” The correct answer is Chicago, and it was one of Watson’s Read More …
Omniscient Facebook App “Sponsored Stories”
Read Robin Cangie in her article Facebook Doesn’t Need Mind Control to Control You She compares Facebook’s new Sponsored Stories application to a panopticon, that is a circular building, originally designed for prisons, that allows outside observers to watch prisoners without their knowing. That creates a “sentiment of an invisible omniscience.”, as Wikipedia puts it Read More …
Augmented Reality: Just ask what you’d like!
It began with GPS with maps, interest points… Now we have smartphones with satellite images and many layers that can be added. What would YOU like to have as augmented reality in your daily life? And on holiday, when traveling? Autonomy CEO explains how the future of computing stems from the 18th century… Today, augmented Read More …
Crowdsourcing in Search and Data Mining
Here are some Notes from “Crowdsourcing in Search and Data Mining” (CSDM) workshop taken by Panos Ipeirotis. The workshop took place in Hong Kong, just a few days ago, and tackled different issues on crowdsourcing, like: – When should we let people talk to each other vs let them work independently? – How Crowdsourçable is Read More …
Lovely made Science Video
I found the reference in the Global Brain list, and I find it great! A lot of things we know put altogether, new relations between theories… I don’t know how much scientifically established, but I enjoyed it 🙂 Athene\’s Theory of Everything
Clicks: where did you think the data was coming from?
All these buzz about tracking clicks began with Bing, but goes well beyond that Search Engine. Read this article, it talks about clicks and other telemetries (remote measurement and reporting of information). There are a lot of examples of applications where you have been tracked, knowingly or not. You could see it as: you give Read More …
What Problems Search Engine Algorithms Have To Tackle?
I had found in Will Fitzgerald’s post a very clear overview of how search engines work. He’s not going in detail into the machine learning algorithms, but he gives an idea of what kind of problems they have to tackle 🙂 Enjoy the reading! When a search engine, like Bing’s or Google’s says the results Read More …