Category: Digital Health

How Google Screwed Up Google Glass – Forbes

by timbatchelder, posted in Digital Health

  How Google Screwed Up Google Glass - Forbes.

5 Simple Office Policies That Make Danish Workers Way More Happy Than Americans | Co.Exist | ideas + impact

by timbatchelder, posted in Digital Health, Information Visualization

  5 Simple Office Policies That Make Danish Workers Way More Happy Than Americans | Co.Exist | ideas + impact.

The linguistics of big data: How can Twitter reveal your personality? | The Economist

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  The Economist explains: How can Twitter reveal your personality? | The Economist.

Deathwatch : The New Yorker

by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Digital Health

  Deathwatch : The New Yorker.

Transom » Portable Digital Recorder Comparison

by timbatchelder, posted in Digital Health, Linguistic Search

  Transom » Portable Digital Recorder Comparison.

Stockholm: Jante culture of knowledge sharing creates startup superstars

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  Stockholm - Europe’s Start-Up Superstar.

How to tell people to stop emailing you so you can get to work

by timbatchelder, posted in Digital Health, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management

Stop Emailing Me: How to Get Out of Your Inbox and Into Your Work Lauren Lee Anderson, thenextweb.com This post orig­i­nal­ly appeared on the 15Five blog. Email is a huge time and effi­cien­cy suck. It’s a per­pet­u­at­ing cycle of call and response, a vor­tex of dis­trac­tion and a black hole for pro­duc­tiv­i­ty. But there is … Continue reading How to tell people to stop emailing you so you can get to work

Overcome the 6 most toxic employee behaviors

by timbatchelder, posted in Digital Health, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Regenerative Economy

How to Overcome The 6 Most Toxic Employee Behaviors BY BAIRD BRIGHTMAN, fastcompany.com Identify, prevent, and get rid of the most toxic of workplace behaviors forever. The old adage that “Peo­ple are hired for their tal­ents and fired for their behav­ior” is true. Peo­ple often fail at work by exhibit­ing pat­terns of behav­ior th… http://flip.it/j5rJh … Continue reading Overcome the 6 most toxic employee behaviors

Changing the IT department from gatekeepers to curators

by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Digital Health, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Metadata Masterdata, Regenerative Economy

The IT Department Is Dead. Long Live the IT Department Marcus Wohlsen, wired.com In the brave new world imagined by four Silicon Valley startups — Evernote, Box, GitHub, and Asana — the role of IT is changing. Instead of the people who say no, they will be the people who say yes. http://flip.it/I1CvM Related articles … Continue reading Changing the IT department from gatekeepers to curators

Cognition as a service is the next OS

by timbatchelder, posted in Digital Health, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Metadata Masterdata, Regenerative Economy

Why Cognition-as-a-Service is the next operating system battlefield Nova Spivack, Bottlenose, gigaom.com The Seman­tic Web may have failed, but high­er intel­li­gence is com­ing to appli­ca­tions any­way, in anoth­er form: Cognition-as-a-Service (CaaS). And this may just be the next evo­lu­tion of the oper­at­ing sys­tem. CaaS will enable every app… http://flip.it/AEsmh Related articles Why Cognition-as-a-Service (CaaS) is … Continue reading Cognition as a service is the next OS

Making performance reviews less painful

by timbatchelder, posted in Digital Health, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Regenerative Economy

Performance Reviews Don’t Have To Be Absolutely Awful BY DRAKE BAER, fastcompany.com As the end of the year approaches, so do annual performance evaluations. But the process doesn’t have to be painful and counterproductive. Here are your problems solved. The (often dread­ed) annu­al per­for­mance review is an inescapable part of… http://flip.it/qPmeJ Related articles Content curators … Continue reading Making performance reviews less painful

The jobs of the future belong to data science and user experience designers

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Design UX, Digital Health, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management

The jobs of the future belong to data scientists and user experience designers Stacey Higginbotham, gigaom.com GE and design may not seem to go togeth­er, but as it con­nects its indus­tri­al prod­ucts, med­ical devices and home appli­ances to the inter­net and rethinks its busi­ness for the con­nect­ed age, the com­pa­ny is focus­ing on user inter­faces … Continue reading The jobs of the future belong to data science and user experience designers

Americans hate their jobs more than other countries

by timbatchelder, posted in Digital Health, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management

Everyone In The World Hates Their Jobs—But Americans Hate Theirs The Most fastcoexist.com A survey asked people if they were happy to go to work in the morning. The answer was a rather emphatic “no.” What are we going to do about this global case of the Mondays? We sup­pose this sur­vey of 8,000 work­ers … Continue reading Americans hate their jobs more than other countries

Live scribe 3 is best tool for field based research note capture

by timbatchelder, posted in Digital Health, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

Livescribe 3 sends handwritten notes straight to your iPhone or iPad by Rick Broida, cnet.com This pen is definitely mightier than the stylus, as it gives you real-world note-taking coupled with mobile device world syncing. The Live­scribe 3 is a wire­less ink pen that auto­mat­i­cal­ly syncs your hand­writ­ten notes with your iPhone or… http://flip.it/A0lDq Related … Continue reading Live scribe 3 is best tool for field based research note capture

Cuddle mattress

by timbatchelder, posted in Digital Health, Knowledge Management

Cuddle Mattress lets you get closer to your significant other Dave Parrack, gizmag.com The Cuddle Mattress is a normal mattress divided up into slices that give you somewhere to put your arm when snuggling up to your significant other. This simple idea could help prevent bad backs, dead-arm-in-bed issues … and arguments between… http://flip.it/Bo2Tq

Prosumer analysts drive business analysis

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Rise of the prosumer analyst: How mobile is driving a new brand of business analysis Jonathan Libov, Guest Contributor, gigaom.com Today, it seems nat­ur­al for, say, an iOS devel­op­er to fol­low Apple’s com­pa­ny affairs — changes to the exec­u­tive team, the num­ber of opening-weekend iPhone 5S sales, or even Apple’s stock price — in the … Continue reading Prosumer analysts drive business analysis

Rethinking the cubicle: Scott Berkun and life at WordPress

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Reimagining Work: Scott Berkun’s Year Without Pants at Automattic Wade Roush, xconomy.com Wade RoushFrom my desk at Xconomy San Francisco—aka my Potrero Hill apartment—I can look out the window at Highway 280, watch the traffic that crawls into the city every morning and back out every evening, and chuckle smugly. There’s never … http://flip.it/6DRoG

Lagoa web platform for 3d designs

by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Digital Health, Knowledge Management

Passionate About 3D? Become an Evangelist for Lagoa in Boston core77.com wants a 3D Evangelist in Boston, Massachusetts Who are they? Lagoa is the world’s first web-based platform for photoreal 3D visualization and rendering. They provide both designers and artists an exciting and innovative interface t… http://flip.it/whcnw Related articles Montreal's 3D Photoreal Rendering Startup Lagoa … Continue reading Lagoa web platform for 3d designs

RI among best states for UX designers

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Digital Health, Knowledge Management, Sustainable Design

What is the Best American State for an Industrial Designer? core77.com If you’re an industrial designer in the U.S. and want to live someplace with a lot of job opportunities, where should you go? According to Michigan Live, the top five American states with the most industrial designers include Rhode Island,… http://flip.it/ebYjM Related articles Be … Continue reading RI among best states for UX designers

Social network usage by income level

by timbatchelder, posted in Digital Health, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management

The Surprising Identity of Each Social Network Cooper Smith, inc.com Each social media plat­form has cul­ti­vat­ed a unique iden­ti­ty thanks to the demo­graph­ics of the peo­ple who par­tic­i­pate in the net­work. Some plat­forms are pre­ferred by young adults, who are most active in the evening, oth­ers by… http://flip.it/j6B9e Related articles Social Media is About Relationship … Continue reading Social network usage by income level

The only jobs that won’t be taken over by robots require understanding of human behavior

by timbatchelder, posted in Digital Health, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management

Think You’re Special? A Robot Could Do Your Job fastcoexist.com Technology is advancing so fast that half of all jobs that exist today might be taken over by bots and computers in the next 20 years. Find out if your job is on the list. Is your job safe from our new computer-programmed over­lords? A … Continue reading The only jobs that won’t be taken over by robots require understanding of human behavior

Sublime Google street view photos

by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Digital Health, Knowledge Management

From spooky to sublime, these Street View pics are hard to forget by Tim Hornyak, cnet.com Montreal artist Jon Rafman’s Nine Eyes project collects some of the craziest Google Street View images you’ve ever seen. If you’ve never taken a ran­dom walk through Google Street View, the expe­ri­ence can feel like a dream in slow… … Continue reading Sublime Google street view photos

Expect Labs’ anticipatory computing platform gets backing from Liberty Global, IDG — Tech News and Analysis

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Expect Labs’ anticipatory computing platform gets backing from Liberty Global, IDG — Tech News and Analysis. Related articles Expect Labs Anticipates a Day when the Computer Is Always Listening (xconomy.com)