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Real-Time News Curation - The Complete Guide Part 2: Aggregation Is Not Curation
We are no longer just consumers of content , we have become curators of it too. In Part 1 of this Guide I have introduced why we really need real-time news curation and what is the basic idea behind it (Part 1 - Real-Time News Curation, Newsmastering And Newsradars - The Complete Guide Part 1: Why We Need It ).
The Mynd wireless EEG headset developed by NeuroFocus to read the brain's emotional responses to products.
Ad men use brain scanners to probe our emotional response | Media | The Observer
10 Ways Big Data is Creating the Science Fiction Future
All this means eerily accurate insight into what you (and your cohort) are doing and why. Except that I don't care what my "cohorts" are doing or why. I don't follow anyone's twitter feed.
On the heels of two major powwows on technology and retail-- CES and the National Retail Federation's big show --shopper marketers are heading back to their offices trying to make sense of what big ideas are coming out of these conferences.
Three Technologies that Will Change the Way We Shop
Peter Thiel: We're in a Bubble and It's Not the Internet. It's Higher Education.
Fair warning: This article will piss off a lot of you. I can say that with confidence because it’s about Peter Thiel. And Thiel – the PayPal co-founder, hedge fund manager and venture capitalist – not only has a special talent for making money, he has a special talent for making people furious.
Who are the movers, the shakers, the companies that affect profound change?
7 Disruptive Innovations That Turned Their Markets Upside Down [INFOGRAPHIC]
Who’s to Blame: Us As much as we love the open, unfettered Web, we’re abandoning it for simpler, sleeker services that just work.
The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet | Magazine
Back in 1993, the Knight-Ridder newspaper chain began investigating piracy of Dave Barry’s popular column, which was published by the Miami Herald and syndicated widely. In the course of tracking down the sources of unlicensed distribution, they found many things, including the copying of his column to alt.fan.dave_barry on usenet; a 2000-person strong mailing list also reading pirated versions; and a teenager in the Midwest who was doing some of the copying himself, because he loved Barry’s work so much he wanted everybody to be able to read it. One of the people I was hanging around with online back then was Gordy Thompson, who managed internet services at the New York Times.
Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable
R. Scott Brown: My idea to "Kill Hollywood"
This is in response to the excellent Y Combinator "Kill Hollywood" request for startups.
Twenty creative directors, planners, media strategists, and account executives from agencies across the country are down on all fours on the floor of a 100-year-old tenement on Manhattan's Lower East Side. They are each staring down at a blank poster-size sheet of paper, contemplating their most abject fears about their careers, their livelihoods, and their future. They have reason to worry.
The Future of Advertising
With all the innovation in technology and business as well as new consumer behaviors, it’s sometimes difficult to separate what will shape the future of payments from what is just hype. By closely examining “innovation clusters” — that intersection of new technology and consumer simplicity that signals that a payment innovation is ready for prime time, the picture can become a bit more clear. We see hundreds of great ideas, but only a few have the right combination to get traction and scale right now.