Category: Web/Tech
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What Would Your Toaster Say to Your TV?
The recent announcement of the Sprint / Clearwire WiMax venture generated a great deal of excitement in many quarters. In an Advertising Age article, "WiMax Could Bring Dramatic Changes, Wherever You Are", Abbey Klaussen writes: WiMax is essentially the network that will deliver data and voice services to phones, but much faster than what consumers…
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Recommender Systems in Retail Stores: Bridging the Gaps between eCommerce and Physical Shopping
Advertising Age posted an article yesterday on Olay Translates Killer Online App to Retail Aisles, describing some recent trial deployments of special kiosks in physical stores that give shoppers access to online recommender systems. These systems have access to online representations of offline inventories – or, at least, product lines typically carried – in the…
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Yogi Patel joins MyStrands Labs, Seattle, as Innovationeer
I’m delighted to announce that Yogi Patel has joined MyStrands Labs, Seattle, as Innovationeer! Yogi’s arrival doubles the size – and probably quadruples the productive capacity – of our new innovation team. He brings 5 years of development and program management experience, most recently in the area of wearable computing, contributing to the U.S. Army’s…
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UbiComp 2008: Call for Papers, Notes and Workshops (deadline: April 4)
The Tenth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2008) will be held 21-24 September 2008 in Seoul, South Korea: UbiComp 2008 welcomes original, high-quality research contributions that advance the state of the art in the design, development, deployment, evaluation and understanding of ubiquitous computing (ubicomp) systems. Ubicomp is an interdisciplinary field of study that includes…
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Innovating at MyStrands, Seattle
It’s been a little over a month since I left Nokia and started principally instigating at MyStrands, Seattle. Most of my time thus far has been devoted to talking with people and looking at places, as my top two initial instigative goals are to attract a dream team and setup shop in a dream space.…
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Entrepreneurial Karma: Call for Early-Stage Recommender System Startups
This is pretty cool (though I’m admittedly biased): a mid-stage startup (MyStrands, the company I work for) that has recently secured funding now offering an opportunity to fund an earlier stage startup – a sort of entrepreneurial karma, where we keep the investment flowing in ways that will [hopefully] benefit us all. This initiative is…
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The Onion on Voting, Puppetry and Illusions
A week ago, The Onion produced a hilarious – not to be confused with Hillaryous – satirical look at the upcoming "election", from the shadowy perspective of reports of Diebold voting machine hacks in Florida a month ago … or perhaps demonstrations of Diebold voting machine hackability a year ago … or perhaps questionable results…
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Re-rethinking Recommendation Engines: Psychology and the Influence of False Negatives
Alex Iskold posted an interesting article on Rethinking Recommendation Engines on ReadWriteWeb yesterday. I like (and recommend) his crisp and clear delineation of different types or sources of recommendations – personalized (based on your past behavior), social (based on past behavior of others who are similar to you) and item-based (based on the recommendable items…
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CharmingBurka: Bridging Gaps and Lifting Veils via Bluetooth
I visited BoingBoing – one of my favorite blogs – for the first time in [too long] a while, and, as usual, encountered a post of great interest and intrigue: CharmingBurka: CharmingBurka A project by Markus Kison. Synopsis The CharmingBurka sends a self-defined picture of the wearing person to every mobile phone next to it.…