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Simeon Spearman

Smarter Than You Think - Aiming to Learn as We Do, A Machine Teaches Itself - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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daily machine learning

shared by Simeon Spearman on 05 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Since the start of the year, a team of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University — supported by grants from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and Google, and tapping into a research supercomputing cluster provided by Yahoo — has been fine-tuning a computer system that is trying to master semantics by learning more like a human. Its beating hardware heart is a sleek, silver-gray computer — calculating 24 hours a day, seven days a week — that resides in a basement computer center at the university, in Pittsburgh. The computer was primed by the researchers with some basic knowledge in various categories and set loose on the Web with a mission to teach itself.
  • The Never-Ending Language Learning system, or NELL, has made an impressive showing so far. NELL scans hundreds of millions of Web pages for text patterns that it uses to learn facts, 390,000 to date, with an estimated accuracy of 87 percent. These facts are grouped into semantic categories — cities, companies, sports teams, actors, universities, plants and 274 others. The category facts are things like “San Francisco is a city” and “sunflower is a plant.”
  • Emily Knab on 05 Oct 10
     
    daily 10.5
Emily Knab

In China, an Attempt at Moviemaking, American Style - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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Daily Entertainment

shared by Emily Knab on 16 Jun 10 - Cached
  • mash-up of “Avatar,” “Gladiator” and “Pirates of the Caribbean,” all thrown together in a Chinese hot pot
Simeon Spearman

Advertising - Showing Commercials on Shelves and in Aisles - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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advertising Technology digital signage retail

shared by Simeon Spearman on 16 Jun 10 - Cached
  • “This is all about finding a way to give advertisers the opportunities they used to have in the days of three networks,” said Mr. Manning, when marketers could effectively and efficiently reach huge audiences just by buying commercial time on ABC, CBS and NBC. “People are still watching television, but they’re spread out among hundreds of channels and the Internet,” Mr. Manning said. “The one place where people re-aggregate themselves back into a crowd again is the retail store.”
  • Emily Knab on 17 Jun 10
     
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Simeon Spearman

Location Services Have Not Caught On, Report Says - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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lbs Social mobile check-ins

shared by Simeon Spearman on 08 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • The number of people using location-based services like Foursquare and Gowalla remains small, and does not appear to be growing, according to a report published Thursday by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project.
  • On any given day, 1 percent of adult Americans use a service that allows them to share their location, according to the report. Four percent of adult Internet users use location-based services at all, down from 5 percent of Internet users who said they used such services in May. Only 6 percent of people who use social networking sites also used location-based services.
  • The Pew report notes how quickly technologies like these can go from obscurity to mainstream use. In August 2008, for example, 6 percent of adults used status-updating services like Twitter. By September 2010 that proportion had quadrupled.
Simeon Spearman

- An iPad App for Cooks - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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mobile app tablet

shared by Simeon Spearman on 28 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Gilt Taste, the company’s food platform, is to release a free iPad-only app, also called Gilt Taste, on Wednesday. Its 140 recipes are presented straightforwardly — all text, one recipe step on each page, no videos — except for one game-changing feature. Using the iPad’s built-in camera, which tracks your hand movements, you can turn the pages of the recipe without touching the tablet. Lift your hand in front of the screen, brush it from right to left (as if turning the page of a book), and the screen flips to the next step. Wave your hand from left to right, and it goes back to the last step.
Rhiannon Apple

Retailers Encourage Shoppers to Buy Online and Pick Up In-Store - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by Rhiannon Apple on 06 Jul 12 - Cached
  • More than half of the sales from Walmart.com are now picked up at Walmart stores, Mr. Anderson said.
  • Walmart says the majority of in-store purchases are made with cash or debit cards, and that about 15 percent are made with credit cards.
  • Walmart noticed that a different set of customers also found the service appealing. About 40 percent of the customers who paid with cash when ordering online ended up using noncash options, like a credit card or check, when they arrived at the store. They simply had not wanted to provide that financial information online.
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  • The service already accounts for 2 percent of Walmart.com’s sales.
  • Sears, which has long offered store pickup for items bought on the Web, added a drive-through service a few months ago that allows customers to return or exchange purchases without leaving their cars.
  • He said that the online orders for in-store pickup also tended to be much larger than typical in-store purchases, and that customers who picked up orders in the store visited about 50 percent more often than customers who shopped only in the stores.
  • That follows the company’s decision three years ago to combine its online and offline inventories, so that if nordstrom.com was sold out of a size 8 Nicole Miller shift but a store in Los Angeles had the item in stock, the store would ship the item to the e-commerce customer.
  • further toward the “showroom” model — carrying lots of products for shoppers to see and test, but asking customers to buy the merchandise via the stores’ Web sites or apps.
  • “You will definitely start to see online-only players open stores,” she said.
Greg Steen

Online Anonymity (and Personal Reinvention) in Decline - 0 views

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privacy online

shared by Greg Steen on 29 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • Greg Steen on 29 Dec 10
     
    NYTimes covers privacy concerns and the changing landscape of online identity.
Rhiannon Apple

Desire for Waves Is Overcoming Fear of Perms - Skin Deep - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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fashion hair care L'oreal

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  • Rhiannon Apple on 03 Feb 11
     
    Perms should come back
Simeon Spearman

TV Industry Taps Twitter and Facebook for Viewers - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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entertainment tv amplified present twitter social

shared by Simeon Spearman on 23 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Simeon Spearman on 23 Feb 11
     
    NYTimes article on the amplified present.
jrryhdsn

Standing on the Sidelines With Virtual Reality - NYTimes.com - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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VR virtual reality next3d

shared by jrryhdsn on 30 Apr 14 - No Cached
  • jrryhdsn on 30 Apr 14
     
    I was just talking about this kind of thing last week.
Simeon Spearman

Text Messaging Declines in U.S. for First Time, Report Says - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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mobile culture

shared by Simeon Spearman on 13 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Simeon Spearman on 13 Nov 12
     
    Messaging apps
Jinah Kim

Restaurants Turn Camera Shy - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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mobile photography app

shared by Jinah Kim on 24 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • Jinah Kim on 24 Jan 13
     
    Foodstagram, Foodspotting, no longer a thing?
Ivy Chang

Test Drive: Zappos Introduces PinPointing, a Pinterest Shopping Companion Tool - NYTime... - 0 views

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shopping mobile app

shared by Ivy Chang on 11 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Zappos, the online shopping Web site, is trying to change all that with PinPointing, a service that recommends Zappos products based on Pinterest pins and boards. The pins and boards triggering suggestions don’t necessarily feature Zappos products. Recommending items based on particular images is nothing new — see every fashion Web site urging you to “shop this look”
Simeon Spearman

Advertisers Refine Mobile Pitches for Phones and Tablets - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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mobile

shared by Simeon Spearman on 01 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Simeon Spearman on 01 Nov 12
     
    "Google earns 56 percent of all mobile ad dollars and 96 percent of mobile search ad dollars, according to eMarketer. The company said it is on track to earn $8 billion in the coming year from mobile sales, which includes ads as well as apps, music and movies it sells in its Google Play store. But the vast majority of that money comes from ads, it said."
Simeon Spearman

With YouTube Video, Obama Looks to Expand Social Media Reach - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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video social

shared by Simeon Spearman on 15 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Simeon Spearman on 15 Mar 12
     
    When the Tom Hanks-narrated, Hollywood-style documentary, called "The Road We've Traveled," is set to go online Thursday night, it will appear on a new YouTube platform that enables the Obama campaign to turn the passive experience of watching a video into an organizing and fund-raising tool. The technology will allow viewers to post campaign content to their Facebook pages, volunteer and donate all without having to leave Mr. Obama's dedicated YouTube page.
Simeon Spearman

A Shooting, and Instant Polarization - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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media social twitter

shared by Simeon Spearman on 02 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Simeon Spearman on 02 Apr 12
     
    But if we have learned anything in the last few years, it is that traditional media are now only in charge of part of the story. There is a paucity of facts and an excess of processing power because everyone with a keyboard is theoretically a creator and distributor of content. Most of those efforts begin from behind a firmly established battle line, then row backward to find the facts that they need. Was that a dark spot on the back of George Zimmerman's head in the grainy police video, or evidence of a beat-down? We retweet and "like" what we agree with and dismiss the rest. As if the overheated cable news debate weren't enough, social media are fueling the story with misinformation, along with incendiary calls to action. There is a Twitter account called "@killzimmerman" that suggested George Zimmerman needed to be "shot dead in the street." On Twitter, the movie director Spike Lee passed on what he thought was Mr. Zimmerman's address, but it was wrong and an elderly couple was forced to flee from their home. And what if Mr. Lee had gotten it right? (Mr. Lee has since apologized and reached a settlement with the couple.)
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