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Clarity Is Missing Link in Supply Chain - WSJ.com
For a man who sells the chip "brains" that power millions of TVs, cameras and other gadgets, Levy Gerzberg found himself surprisingly unplugged last fall. In just a few short weeks, business virtually stopped.\n\nHe still marvels at the speed of the collapse. "I think about it today, and ask, 'Why did it happen so fast?' " says Mr. Gerzberg, CEO of chip designer Zoran Corp.\n\nThe reason is now starting to become clear. The world's complex "just in time" manufacturing supply chains are making it increasingly tough for Zoran, and any other single link in the chain, to know what's going on just a few links away. Sometimes, Zoran itself doesn't even know how its own chips are used: One batch it thought was destined for DVD players instead turned up in digital picture frames.
Is The Stream What Comes After the Web? | Twine
The Internet began evolving many decades before the Web emerged. And while today many people think of the Internet and the Web as one and the same, in fact they are different. The Web lives on top of the Internet's infrastructure much like software and documents live on top of an operating system on a computer.\n\nAnd just as the Web once emerged on top of the Internet, now something new is emerging on top of the Web: I call this the Stream. The Stream is the next phase of the Internet's evolution. It's what comes after, or on top of, the Web we've all been building and using.
Jump Into The Stream
Once again, the Internet is shifting before our eyes. Information is increasingly being distributed and presented in real-time streams instead of dedicated Web pages. The shift is palpable, even if it is only in its early stages. Web companies large and small are embracing this stream. It is not just Twitter. It is Facebook and Friendfeed and AOL and Digg and Tweetdeck and Seesmic Desktop and Techmeme and Tweetmeme and Ustream and Qik and Kyte and blogs and Google Reader. The stream is winding its way throughout the Web and organizing it by nowness.
How to Design Smart Business Experiments - HBR.org
Every day, managers in your organization take steps to implement new ideas without having any real evidence to back them up. They fiddle with offerings, try out distribution approaches, and alter how work gets done, usually acting on little more than gut feel or seeming common sense-"I'll bet this" or "I think that." Even more disturbing, some wrap their decisions in the language of science, creating an illusion of evidence. Their so-called experiments aren't worthy of the name, because they lack investigative rigor. It's likely that the resulting guesses will be wrong and, worst of all, that very little will have been learned in the process.
Attention and awareness in stage magic: turning tricks into research : Article : Nature Reviews Neuroscience
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Just as vision scientists study visual art and illusions to
elucidate the workings of the visual system, so too can cognitive scientists
study cognitive illusions to elucidate the underpinnings of cognition. Magic
shows are a manifestation of accomplished magic performers' deep intuition for
and understanding of human attention and awareness. By studying magicians and
their techniques, neuroscientists can learn powerful methods to manipulate
attention and awareness in the laboratory. Such methods could be exploited to
directly study the behavioural and neural basis of consciousness itself, for
instance through the use of brain imaging and other neural recording
techniques.
Coca-Cola Seeks Edge With 120-Drink Jet Fountain (Update2) - Bloomberg.com
- Coca-Cola Co. is using micro-dosing technology from drugmakers, a smart phone operating system from Microsoft Corp. and style tips from Italian auto designers in its latest attempt to revive falling sales of fountain drinks.\n\nCoca-Cola spent four years developing a self-serve beverage dispenser that can pour as many as 120 drinks. It uses 40 percent less storage space than traditional six- or eight-tap fountains, said Gene Farrell, the project's manager.
Relationship Symmetry in Social Networks: Why Facebook will go Fully Asymmetric - Bokardo
Recent events have made it clear that Facebook sees Twitter as a serious threat to its business. First, Facebook tried to buy Twitter for $500,000,000 in stock. Twitter declined. Facebook then began describing their service in increasingly-twitter like ways, such as during the Inauguration when they showed a "live stream" of chatter alongside CNN news. And on March 11 Facebook redesigned their homepage (the logged-in homepage) to a layout remarkably similar to Twitter. As Twitter's growth continues to accelerate, it is obvious that Facebook is trying to block Twitter from catching up.
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