July 2012
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“Instead, the focus seems to be on tailoring the company’s magazine properties...”
– Laura Lang Rethinks Magazines for Time Inc.’s Digital Audience - NYTimes.com
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“The combined level of robotic chatter on the world’s wireless networks —...”
– Talk to Me, One Machine Said to the Other - NYTimes.com
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How Facebook could change the game for... →
Opower created a Facebook application that enables users to check out their energy usage compared to friends and national averages, get energy efficiency tips and, down the road, play games that make energy savings competitive. The app was launched in April in beta with 16 utilities (representing 20 million h0useholds).
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The Internet of Things and Change - Will You Be... →
Will You Be Ready For the M2M World?
The Internet of Things, the Connected World, the Smart Planet… All these terms indicate that the number of devices connected to, communicating through, and building relationships on the Internet has exceeded the number of humans using the Internet. But what does this really mean? Is it about the number of devices, and what devices? Is it about the data, so...
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Connected health: hype or hope for a new... →
Our current health care system is in need of a radical reinvention. Traditional approaches have not brought the rapid change required by aging populations and the rising costs of health care, and government efforts too often get bogged down in partisan politics and fail to address systemic issues. Thankfully, there is hope on the horizon. New approaches that embrace game-changing technology —...
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Coursera makes top college courses free online →
Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng share a vision in which anyone, no matter how destitute, can expand their minds and prospects with lessons from the world’s top universities. That dream was joined this week by a dozen vaunted academic institutions including Duke University, the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland and the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. The...
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City of Things | Home →
What is the City Of Things?
The City Of Things is a research project run by Swirrl andpartners as part of the Technology Strategy Board’s Internet of Things Convergence programme.
Our project is looking at the application of the Internet of Things to management of the urban built environment, making cities more efficient, cleaner and safer. We’ll be looking at use cases around Manchester in...
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Learn Science While Playing Video Games? Video... →
Valve is bridging the gap between video games and science education with its ‘Teach With Portals’ program.
For decades, video games and education have gone together like oil and water. No matter what attempts were made to merge the two, it seems students and teachers had to pick between one or the other, with The Oregon Trail being the only tolerated exception to the rule. But a...
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IBM Finds a New Prospect in CMOs | SiliconANGLE →
IBM plans to capitalize on the fact that marketing departments spend a bigger cut of their revenue on information technology than IT departments, a very ambitious move that can be credited to chief executive Virginia Rometty. IBM’s first female CEO entered office in January this year.
While IBM’s revenue is expected to drop by one percent in Q2, marketing departments’ spending will increase by...
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Stanford Researchers Produce First Computer Model... →
Stanford University scientists reported on Thursday they had made the first full computer model of an organism, another breakthrough in a field that’s both raising hopes of fighting disease and stoking fears of biological engineering.
The team, led by Markus W. Covert, a professor of bioengineering at Stanford, made the model using Mycoplasma genitalium, a standard target for such work because of...
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Facebook, Google Less Trusted Than Your Grocery...
According to the survey customers trust grocery stores with their personal information more than they trust Facebook, Amazon, Google or their cellphone provider.
According to the survey, 81% of consumers were comfortable with grocery stores using information about past purchases to give you coupons tailored to your shopping needs. But only 33% of respondents were comfortable with Facebook...
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Major League Soccer Wants to Be First 'Smart... →
Major League Soccer announced on Thursday that it will add a high-tech data-tracking system that could potentially change the face of the game by providing coaches and trainers metrics in real-time about player performance, speed, heart rate and power.
MLS said it will become the world’s first “smart league” when it embraces the Adidas Micoach Elite System starting in 2013. All 19 club teams —...
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Copenhagen adds bicycle superhighways to their... →
townsandcities:
The video that accompanies the article is great, especially the couple that cycled to the hospital to have their baby.
Car Sharing about to Explode →
emergentfutures:
I wrote a post back in May on
The Mental Shift in the Collaboration Economy and Why it Matters to Everyone
The post is about how collaboration and sharing is taking off and specifically mentioned car sharing as a key example.
On Tuesday GigaOm had a notice up that GM was partnering with Relay Rides to allow users of OnStar to rent their cars out via a mobile app:
GM opens up...
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“When you fund something like OUYA, you’re not pre-ordering a new console that...”
– Kickstarter: Crowdfunding Platform Or Reality Show? | Fast Company (via fred-wilson)
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Personalized medicine for Parkinson’s closer to... →
Human induced pluripotent stem cells (credit: UCSD)
A nationwide consortium of scientists at 20 institutions, led by a principal faculty member at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI), has used stem cells to take a major step toward developing personalized medicine to treat Parkinson’s disease.
In part supported by the Harvard Miller Consortium for the Development of Nervous System...
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The Future Of Customer Experience – 3 Examples Of... →
The future of customer service is less about the people than it is the sound of a person or the virtual image of an individual.
Humans are just so inefficient. But they can be improved, too, through interfaces that provide them more automated capabilities.
Salefsorce.com is on the edge of this trend. It continues to acquire companies that automates an agent’s tasks to become more efficient...
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The laser-powered bionic eye that gives 576-pixel... →
(Credit: Nano Retina)
Bionic eye implants are finally hitting the market — first in Europe, and hopefully soon in the U.S., ExtremeTech reports.
These implants can restore sight to completely blind patients — though only if the blindness is caused by a faulty retina, as in macular degeneration.
Second Sight
The first of these implants, Argus II, developed by Second Sight, is already...
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“By 2017 the CMO will Spend More on IT Than the CIO”
– Quote from Gartner and the name of a January 2012 Gartner Webinar. See webinar page here (via horizonwatching)
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“The best teams spend about half their time communicating outside of formal...”
– The Hard Science of Teamwork - Alex “Sandy” Pentland - Harvard Business Review
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The dawn of the digital enterprise →
ibmsocialbiz:
Characteristics of the future enterprise, based on digital transformation—
Sustained innovation: increased specialization
Relationship-based: open & collaborative
Fading hierarchy: diminished command & control
Adaptive: flexibility in operating and business models
Engagement driven: Experiential versus transactional
Insight driven: Prescriptive
Design...
