Category: Knowledge Management

  • Farmingo digitizes organic farmers markets

    Farmigo Opens Doors to Online Farmers Market Bonnie Cha, allthingsd.com The ben­e­fits of your local farm­ers mar­kets are plen­ty. You’re get­ting fresh food, sup­port­ing local farms and help­ing to cre­ate a more sus­tain­able food sys­tem. But with lim­it­ed hours and loca­tions, you prob­a­bly can’t take advan­ta… RT @allthingsd: Farmigo Opens Doors to Online Farmer’s Market…

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  • Ditch the pricey telecom Internet with Freedompop

    Still Seeking to Shake Up Mobile Market, FreedomPop Also Looks to Rattle Home Broadband Ina Fried, allthingsd.com Free­dom­Pop, a start-up aim­ing to offer free and low-cost mobile broad­band access, is now tak­ing aim at the home Inter­net mar­ket as well. The com­pa­ny, backed by Skype founder Niklas Zennstrom, plans on Wednes­day to start tak­ing pre­ord……

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  • Why the iPod touch is the perfect VOIP soft phone: Freedompop

    FreedomPop Aims to Turn an iPod Touch Into an iPhone, With a 4G Add-On Ina Fried, allthingsd.com Wire­less start-up Free­dom­Pop is announc­ing plans on Tues­day to start sell­ing an add-on that effec­tive­ly gives an iPod touch many of the capa­bil­i­ties of an iPhone. The $99 add-on brings wire­less data capa­bil­i­ties to a third-generat… http://flip.it/lw7Sl Related…

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  • Personal genomic price drop: 23andMe

    What Is 23andMe Really Selling: The Moral Quandary At The Center Of The Personalized Genomics Revolution Steven Kotler, forbes.com This week, 23andme, the per­son­al­ized genomics com­pa­ny found­ed by Anne Woj­ci­c­ki, wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, got an influx of invest­ment cash ($50 mil­lion). Accord­ing to their press release, they are using the money to…

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  • Why Apple maps debacle was actually a success

    Is Google’s New Maps App Actually a Big Triumph for Apple? Frederick E. Allen, forbes.com Last Sep­tem­ber when Apple ditched its Google Maps iPhone app and replaced it with its amaz­ing­ly inept home-built Maps app, the move was so round­ly denounced as a step back­ward and a weak­en­ing of the iPhone envi­ron­ment that chief exec­u­t……

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  • Marketing clouds: here comes machine learning

    Beyond Marketing Clouds — The Age of Machine Learning Raj De Datta, CEO, BloomReach, allthingsd.com The advent of Sales­force Mar­ket­ing Cloud and Adobe Mar­ket­ing Cloud demon­strates the need for enter­pris­es to devel­op new ways of har­ness­ing the vast poten­tial of big data. Yet these mar­ket­ing clouds beg the ques­tion of who will help… RT @allthingsd:…

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  • Shootings stimulate mass online petitions for gun control

    25,000 People (And Counting) Flood White House With Online Petition To ‘Immediately Address’ Gun Control Gregory Ferenstein, techcrunch.com Update: The peti­tion has reached 25,000 sig­na­tures Almost imme­di­ate­ly fol­low­ing the trag­ic school shoot­ing in Con­necti­cut, over 16,000 peo­ple have signed an offi­cial White House WeTheP­eo­ple peti­tion to “Imme­di­ate­ly… RT @TechCrunch: Scores Flood White House With Online…

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  • Language and cognitive systems guru Kurzweil asked to head Google engineering

    Ray Kurzweil becomes a Googler, named Director of Engineering Alexis Santos, engadget.com Come Decem­ber 18th, futur­ist extra­or­di­naire Ray Kurzweil will be join­ing Google’s ranks as Direc­tor of Engi­neer­ing to work on projects that involve machine learn­ing and lan­guage pro­cess­ing. Specifics regard­ing those projects, how­ev­… http://flip.it/K9Okf Related articles Ray Kurzweil’s Goal at Google is to enable…

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  • Romney Ad Named ‘Lie of the Year’thedailybeast.com PANTS ON FIRE Well, at least he won some­thing. Mitt Rom­ney’s pres­i­den­tial cam­paign was award­ed “Lie of the Year” on Wednes­day by fact-checking web­site Poli­ti­Fact. The Pinoc­chio moment: the claim that Barack Obama “sold Chrysler to th… http://flip.it/ODboh

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  • Romney Ad Named ‘Lie of the Year’thedailybeast.com PANTS ON FIRE Well, at least he won some­thing. Mitt Rom­ney’s pres­i­den­tial cam­paign was award­ed “Lie of the Year” on Wednes­day by fact-checking web­site Poli­ti­Fact. The Pinoc­chio moment: the claim that Barack Obama “sold Chrysler to th… http://flip.it/ODboh

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  • Romney Ad Named ‘Lie of the Year’thedailybeast.com PANTS ON FIRE Well, at least he won some­thing. Mitt Rom­ney’s pres­i­den­tial cam­paign was award­ed “Lie of the Year” on Wednes­day by fact-checking web­site Poli­ti­Fact. The Pinoc­chio moment: the claim that Barack Obama “sold Chrysler to th… http://flip.it/ODboh

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