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An initial review of Cuil - broadstuff
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An initial review of Cuil. Monday, July 28. 2008. An initial review of Cuil. News from TechCrunch pointed to. The long awaited launch of Cuil (nee Cuill), pronounced "kewl" ( or "cool" if you are from the US. A new general search engine out the blocks - with 120 billion pages indexed apparently. This couldn't come at a better time given Google's emerging propensity to bias results to favour its own content. Thus, it was time for a road test. I chose 3 topics:. Rosicrucians - why not. Mine had far more BB...
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Stuff White People Don't Like #2 - Real Geeks (#CabinetForum Redux) - broadstuff
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Stuff White People Don't Like #2 - Real Geeks (#CabinetForum Redux). Friday, October 30. 2009. Stuff White People Don't Like #2 - Real Geeks (#CabinetForum Redux). There is a post on the marvellously satirical blog Stuff White People Like, on White (White in the sense of US slang for the Lefty Liberal Intelligentsia) people's view of people who Know About Technology. But what about the white people who study Science, Engineering or Business? I mean, if we had a. Works (Sorry good people, but being on Twi...
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The weblog of multi-media consultancy Broadsight www.broadsight.com. Monday, June 13. 2016. Linked In, Data Out. It is hard to see exactly what synergies the deal brings - picture above courtesy Matt Zeitlin. Microsoft has bought Linked In. The question top of mind to us is "why - and why pay so much? They have paid about 50% over the odds (Linked In shares were c $130, now are c $195 on MSFT bid of $196), that is a considerable premium. Quite how this translates practically is hard to see, as the diagra...
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Lies, damn lies and statistical analysts - broadstuff
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Lies, damn lies and statistical analysts. Friday, April 3. 2015. Lies, damn lies and statistical analysts. Two rather interesting snippets on the veracity of Big Data analytics. Firstly, from HBR, this finding. Each team devised their method for answering the question, and then shared that approach but not any results with the group. The result was a heated debate over which methods were defensible, and which were not. With 29 teams and 29 slightly different results, it is clear that any analytical depen...
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Where have all the Gurus gone? - broadstuff
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Where have all the Gurus gone? Thursday, May 14. 2015. Where have all the Gurus gone? Article from The Economist. Echoes something I've been thinking increasingly - there's not a lot of new stuff coming out of guruland these days. I thought it was just me getting old and cynical, as increasingly everything "New" just seemed to be a rehash of something from 2 decades ago or more. I had started assumed New Gurus (Gurii? Were mining old, out of print books and rehashing old whines into new booklets. Ah, so ...
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Freeconomics Part I – or who is paying for your Free lunch? - broadstuff
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Freeconomics Part I or who is paying for your Free lunch? Thursday, May 29. 2008. Freeconomics Part I or who is paying for your Free lunch? There have been a number of recent discussions spanning free music, blog aggregation models. A minute’s sober reflection makes you realize that this is impossible if the service is free to user, but not free to produce, then it must be being paid for in some other way. So why the belief that this can all be free, forever? But that is not the whole story, there is alm...
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Email as the Lingua Franca of the Digital Babel - broadstuff
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Email as the Lingua Franca of the Digital Babel. Wednesday, May 6. 2015. Email as the Lingua Franca of the Digital Babel. Do you remember all the predictions that "email will die" and that social tools will replace it with " ambient intimacy. Turns out that not only is it very unlikely email will ever die (see my argument re Riepl's Law. On that score) but is also highly likely to grow, not shrink. The reason for this is due to. You heard it here first. Posted by Alan Patrick. Display comments as ( Linear.
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Google - it ends not with a bang, but with regulation - broadstuff
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Google - it ends not with a bang, but with regulation. Wednesday, April 15. 2015. Google - it ends not with a bang, but with regulation. The abuse charge focused on accusations that Google diverts traffic from its rivals to favor its own products and services, particularly websites for shopping. That led the European Commission to issue a set of formal charges, known as a statement of objections. The EU is also considering looking at Google's practice with Android:. The European Commission also said on W...
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Free Mobile Apps make money from selling your data shock horror - broadstuff
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Free Mobile Apps make money from selling your data shock horror. Tuesday, April 7. 2015. Free Mobile Apps make money from selling your data shock horror. Yes, its 2015, and yes this is still news to many, if the twitter response an article in The Economist. Is anything to go by (and remember, The Economist is writing for the more enquiring minds in society.). Anyway, the article is about Bruce Schneier, who has put out a book. Of "Siren Servers" in 2013. Schneier writes that:. That is similar to the argu...
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