Category: Technology in Everyday Life
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Book Review: The Circle by Dave Eggers
With the birth of my daughter, and immobility that breast feeding brings, I decided to get back into reading real books. This is not to say that I’m not also reading online articles on my smartphone, but I want her to get excited about reading by seeing me read a real book. One of the…
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PredictionIO – Open Source Machine Learning and its Impact on Marketing
PredictionIO just announced that it has raised $2.5M for its open source machine learning server. Why as an online marketer should this bit of news be interesting? If you’ve been following this blog, you’re aware that I am fascinated with online personalization and how the two large US search engines (Google and Bing) and some of…
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Are Consumers Now Interested in Purchasing Wearable Computers?
Many may not know, but I led a research effort into the viability of consumer adoption of wearable computers for my master’s thesis. This means that I find the news around Google Glass really interesting. In general, while at Georgetown University’s CCT program I was focused on creating a thesis topic that allowed me to:…