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Oh boy, missing the point on so many levels... here's one of them:
"What about privacy? The Cignifi technology looks at account information without needing it to be linked to individuals. And a consumer's identity isn't revealed to the financial services provider until she decides to engage —by requesting a quote for a scooter loan, for instance."
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Chimps avoid single combat. To fight successfully, they must maintain complex, collaborative social networks—suggesting that only by bonding within groups can chimps engage in violence between such groups. This has big implications. It may be the ability to form bonds with strangers was forged by the demands of war. Thus, the human tendency to coalesce around abstract concepts such as religion or nation, which underpins civilisation, may well be an evolutionary legacy of a violent past. Signs of anything similar in a species that, albeit a close-ish relative, parted company from the line leading to humans at least 5m years ago are therefore interesting.
Already big fan of Dan Pink's talks on motivation - this one comes with a really cool animation.
only the individual whose behaviour is being observed can confer the meaning of that behaviour. otherwise, responses based on observation of someone's behaviour are likely to fall into the 'uncanny valley' category.
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people mistakenly assume that 1) any social network that can be boiled down to a graph can be compared and 2) any theory of social networks is transitive to any graph representing connections between people. Such mistaken views result in broad misinterpretations of social networks and social network sites.
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three distinct ways of modeling a social network. These are not the only ways of modeling a social network, but they are three common ways that are often collapsed in public discourse.
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how people make and justify their choices and decisions. makes more sense than some other theories about how choice is bad for us... slightly relieved! :-/ also an interesting application to the gender/race/background bias in recruitment selection. It gets too close to Nudge and it's 'libertarian paternalism' (another post-modern oxymoron) which I abhor as manipulative regardless of whether it's 'good' for people.
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The researchers also surveyed individuals about the level of satisfaction they experienced when making virtuous choices compared to indulgences. Their findings indicate there is a "guilt factor" in which people who select a less virtuous choice from a larger sample are more likely to feel afterwards that they should have made a different choice.
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The findings have particular marketing and managerial implications, says Berger. For example, manufacturers of healthy snacks might improve sales if they sell their products in venues with many other options. An award-winning drama -- which for argument's sake may be considered more virtuous than a slapstick comedy or big-budget action film -- might attract larger audiences at a multiplex cinema than at an art-house theater. At the car-rental kiosk, sensible sedans could be selected more often than flashy sports cars if the selection of automobiles is large.
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another example of why privacy is a policy and behaviour according to that policy, not a system, setting or even a one-off agreement. first step towards people being able to manag their privacy is to be aware of exposures and of what they can and cannot c
fascinating
No shit sherlock! "Despite all the new technology, simply talking to consumers remains one of the most effective ways to improve the “customer experience”." Great article on retail and 'neuromarketing'. There is a ceiling such customer monitoring & analys
interesting article though last para is the killer. privacy is important and will go on being important as one of the measures of individual's autonomy.
ambient awareness and intimacy - I find myself using these terms to explain to people why things like twitter and other social web tools are important and work.
reductive, neuroscientific account of our identity as 'customised' brain. not convinced
privacy is a behavioural issue and technology is a (big) part in protecting or abusing it. I wonder what will happen, even with something like the Mine! that allows people to reclaim some of their data they would otherwise scattered across the web.
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