How One Company Replaced Meetings and Bureaucracy With Pairs, Ceremonies, and Storytelling BY DRAKE BAER, fastcompany.com At Menlo Innovations, structure—and multiple keyboards—allows you to split the difference between chaos and bureaucracy. “This year we’re at 330 tours,” says Rich Sheridan, the founder of Menlo Innovations in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He’s not… http://flip.it/BHLeu Related articles How … Continue reading Replace useless meetings with anthro storytelling, ceremonies
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
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
Nancy Settle-Murphy, guidedinsights.com With so many ways to connect virtually, you’d think we’d all be experts by now. In fact, the opposite may be true: Because we have so many choices, finding the best combination of virtual … 10 Tips for Picking the Best Tech Tools for Your Next Virtual Meeting Related articles The World's … Continue reading 10 Tips for Picking the Best Tech Tools for Your Next Virtual Meeting
Lana Winter-Hébert, lifehack.org Oh, the Brits. No-one can snark quite like they do, and there are certain turns of phrase that are so utterly delightful, the rest of the world really should sit up and take note. Below are just a few common British expressions that you might like… 75 Simple British Slang Expressions You … Continue reading 75 Simple British Slang Expressions You Should Probably Start Using
5 Reasons Why Consumer Collaboration and Big Data Are a Perfect Match BY Diane Hessan, inc.com Data reveals patterns. Once you add consumer insights, you can innovate for the future based on what you know now. In an article in the Harvard Business Review called “Collaborative Advantage: The Art of Alliances,” my friend… Related articles … Continue reading Why collaboration, KM and big data are a perfect match
New MIT Media Lab Tool Lets Anyone Visualize Unwieldy Government Data fastcodesign.com Innovation By Design DataViva, a project developed in part by Media Lab professor César Hidalgo, aims to make a wide swath of government economic data usable with a series of visualization apps. In the four years since the U.S. government… http://flip.it/E0nsK Related articles … Continue reading MIT Media Lab site lets anyone visualize government data
In The Hospital Of The Future, Big Data Is One Of Your Doctors fastcoexist.com From our genomes to Jawbones, the amount of data about health is exploding. Bringing on top Silicon Valley talent, one NYC hospital is preparing for a future where it can analyze and predict its patients’ health needs—and maybe change our… http://flip.it/CftJ7 … Continue reading Big data will make medical decisions in the hospital of the future
Jawbone Tracked Hundreds Of Thousands Of Up Users To Find The Most Sleep-Deprived States BY REBECCA GREENFIELD, fastcompany.com Jawbone anonymized sleep data from Up wearers and discovered some interesting trends about how we as a country snooze. For one, they do it better in Colorado (blame the weed?). You’d think that people would have some … Continue reading Jawbone uses big data to identify sleep deprived states
Is Your Pee The Right Color? [Infographic] By Kelsey D. Atherton, popsci.com Several times a day, human bodies release a stream of data about internal health. Unfortunately, the data comes analog, and so isn’t immediately accessible as useful information. Now an infographic from the Cleveland Clinic off… http://flip.it/IfZGH Related articles Is Your Pee The Right … Continue reading Infographic shows the health meaning of the color of your pee
Software Scans Journal Papers, Finds 1 In 4 Have Suspicious Images By Francie Diep, popsci.com Italian biologist Enrico Bucci originally developed his startup’s software to make scientists’ lives easier. The software is a search engine that automatically pulls images from published scientific papers. Say you’re study… http://flip.it/kf1lf
Sentient code: An inside look at Stephen Wolfram’s utterly new, insanely ambitious computational paradigm John Koetsier, venturebeat.com Tickets on Sale Now In 2002 Stephen Wolfram released A New Kind of Science and immediately unleashed a firestorm of wonder, controversy, and criticism as the British-born scientist, programmer, and entrepreneur overturn… http://flip.it/kLzwP Related articles Sentient code: An … Continue reading Sentient code: Stephen Wolfram’s linguistic computing platform
White House To Universities: We Need More Data Scientists BY NEAL UNGERLEIDER, fastcompany.com New York University, University of California-Berkeley, and the University of Washington are launching a $37.8 million project to boost the numbers of American data scientists. It’s official: America needs more data scientists. This week, a… http://flip.it/i9VYj Related articles UC Berkeley BIDS Launch … Continue reading White House spends millions to train more data scientists
New algorithms can tell if you ride the bus, and how bad you drive Derrick Harris, gigaom.com Researchers from the University of Helsinki in Finland have developed algorithms they say are the best yet for determining how mobile phone users are getting around town — walking, driving, taking the subway or otherwise — by… http://flip.it/hxozG … Continue reading Big data can now tell how badly you drive, and if you ride
Let’s build a semantic web by creating a Wikipedia for relevancy Jim Benedetto, gigaom.com Everyone is always asking me how big our ontology is. How many nodes are in your ontology? How many edges do you have? Or the most common — how many terabytes of data do you have in your ontology? We live … Continue reading Building meta data, semantic web and a wiki for relevancy
The Simplest Way To Know What Everyone’s Doing At Work BY JANET CHOI, fastcompany.com In the modern—often remote—workplace, sharing work is essential to an efficient and collaborative team. Writing is the simple, powerful tool that can foster that culture of sharing. Here’s why. We share so much on our digital streams and fee… http://flip.it/YIFRR Related … Continue reading Why skilled writers are critical to the knowledge economy
Can Facebook Tell When Your Relationship Is Doomed? | Popular Science popsci.com A Facebook Employee’s Network The circle in the middle represents the Facebook user. In the lower left, one circle serves as a bridge between two more sparse clusters. That’s the user’s spouse. Backstrom and Kleinberg Give up now… http://flip.it/fgooX Related articles Kickstarter Alum … Continue reading Facebook predicts when your relationship will fail
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
Startup Runnable fancies itself as “the YouTube of code” Barb Darrow, gigaom.com For folks who are searching the web for specific video clips, YouTube has become an invaluable resource not just for viewing your favorite stupid human tricks (or whatever) but for finding them in the first place. Now, Yash Kumar, a… http://flip.it/fbcyy
Stanford researchers to open-source model they say has nailed sentiment analysis Derrick Harris, gigaom.com Stanford Ph.D. student Richard Socher appreciates the work Google and others are doing to build neural networks that can understand human language. He just thinks his work is more useful — and he’s going to share his code with anyone wh… … Continue reading Stanford researchers open source sentiment analysis project
New tool lets you visualize just about anything in 5 minutes (maybe less) Derrick Harris, gigaom.com There’s a new web tool called Raw that makes it really easy to do some advanced visualizations on data in just a few minutes. (Hat tip to Nathan Yau of FlowingData for pointing it out.) The way it works … Continue reading Raw: advanced data visualization via cut and paste
Like The Evolution Of Apple’s iPod And iPhone, Nest Is Building One Product At A Time Aaron Tilley, forbes.com Today Nest officially unveiled the follow up to its popular learning thermostat with a smoke and carbon monoxide detector called the “Nest Protect.” Getting a look at it in person, co-founder and VP of engineering Matt … Continue reading Nest builds social, data driven CO detector
Numerate Trains Its Drug Design Platform On Huntington’s Disease Bernadette Tansey, xconomy.com Bernadette TanseyThe path toward a breakthrough drug often starts with a new insight about the molecular cause of an illness, but only a few of these discoveries lead to new treatments. Steven Finkbeiner at the Gladstone Institutes in San… http://flip.it/Ivquf Related articles Drug … Continue reading Numerate applies big data to drug design
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