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A Site Devoted to the Discovery and Application of Emerging Technologies .
About Me
- Franz Dill
- Retired from Procter & Gamble after 27 years. Now consulting extensively. Background in mathematics, working on a wide variety of modeling, supply chain, analysis, expertise, business intelligence and social media applications.
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- Thinkvine and DRI on Grocery Shopper Behavior
- Twitter versus Online Reviews
- Eye Tracking Study by Google
- Debunking Social Media Myths
- Neuroscience on 60 Minutes
- Innovation at P&G, Wal-Mart, Unilever
- Should Linking be Barred?
- Visual Attention Scanning
- IBM Lattice Geometry Privacy Breakthrough
- Business Intelligence Tools Analysis
- Coupon Strategies Hasten towards Mobile
- Confidence vs Expertise
- Martin Lindstrom Newsletter
- Generational Baloney?
- Dunkin Run
- AI Overview
- TweetPsych
- Cutting Funds for Libraries
- The Future of TV
- Big Brand Loyalty Fading
- Saatchi & Saatchi CEO Blog
- Escape from Cubicle Nation
- Five Minute Books
- Social Networking Inside the Enterprise
- Google and Amazon Stifling Creativity?
- Unloaded Dice Program
- Evolving Complicators and Simplifiers
- New Neuroscience Blog
- Whole Foods Launches App
- SourceForge Grows Up
- IPOV: An E-Learning Service Bureau
- Neuromarketing and Search Optimization
- Wikipedia Community
- Tweetdeck on the IPhone
- FMI Looks at Private-Label
- Facebook Increases 700 Percent
- On Innovation in Manufacturing
- Digital at Unilever
- Name Trends in Wolfram Alpha
- Taking Another Look at Flu Model Accuracy
- Michalski talk on Bing
- Kindle in Business
- Tagging and Sharing Images
- Design Books
- Not Tried Twitter?
- Can Math Provoke all Emotions
- Flu Models Wrong
- The Fragile Hawthorne Effect
- P&G Pumping Digital Media
- Grocery Strategies
- Wordnik for Words
- Public Relations 2.0 Examined
- Wal-Mart on Marketing
- The Evolution of Private Label
- Demise of the University
- Mirror Neurons and the Social Web
- Mobile Coupons at Dairy Queen
- Google Wave Talk
- Procter Buys Retailer
- A Look at Google Squared
- Notes from the World Innovation Forum
- Investing in Science-Based Innovation
- New Book on Tagging
- Happy Birthday UPC
- Site Tactics from Eyetracking Studies
- LPA Rules and Term Sheet Generator
- Kroger Links Loyalty to Minutes
- Study of the Use of Emoticons
- Is the Cloud Reliable Enough?
- Wal-Mart's Self Service Kiosks
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1 comment:
After watching the Google Wave presentation, I was struck by two thoughts:
1. It is a design "by geeks, for geeks, and of the geeks". No disrespect intended (some of my best friends are ... etc.), but it takes a considerable intellect, a vivid imagination, a large short-term memory and intense concentration to get the most out of this application.
2. By making it open source, Google has created a vaccine against point #1 by encouraging and empowering others to make it mesh with real-world needs and desires.
The combination, I would submit, is a stroke of genius. Let the creative minds and cultures of IQ160+ nerds run free and wild, then turn the results over to less skilled but more pragmatically grounded people to try to connect it to normal, day-to-day reality.
I will be among the many non-free spirits that will be taking a real hard look to see if there is a marketable derivative in there somewhere.
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