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GM to Use Augmented Reality Tech for Safer Driving
So, for example, during foggy conditions, an illuminated line will appear showing the edge of the road, or highlight pedestrians, road signs, or, indeed, any animals that might have strayed onto the highway. Working in conjunction with Carnegie-Mellon and the University of Southern California, General Motors has been playing around with using augmented reality to give drivers an easier ride in tough conditions. The idea is reminiscent of the technology that sports broadcasters use during match analysis, when scribbles appear automagically to show that the Chicago Bears'
Fast Company - Wednesday, March 17, 2010
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Does Your Strategy Rely on a "Pan-Asian Identity"?
Because countries may differ in how they respond to products and brands, this variation creates chances for companies to gain a new edge over its rival firms. Yahoo's continued dominance over Google in Japan is a good example of how the former's devotion to that country has solidified its position despite its loss of share in the U.S. This problem can be compounded when there is a lack of information on contemporary Does a Pan-Asian identity really exist? Outside of Asia, this region is often talked about in sweeping terms.
HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, March 15, 2010
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Decisions, decisions. Business decisions.
Projects that enter new territory, eLearning for example, warrant more detailed consideration. Five years ago, an Information Week survey revealed that “more companies are justifying their ventures not in terms of ROI but in terms of strategic goals… Creating or maintaining a competitive edge was cited most often as the reason for deploying a business application.” MAKING BUSINESS DECISIONS: THE HEART AND THE HEAD Jay Cross examines decision making on learning at work, and gives the lie to some myths about the use of business metrics.
Internet Time - Sunday, March 14, 2010
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  • Innovation from the Edges: PayPal Taps the Developer Community to Build Next-Gen Payment Apps
    It does not make it easy to use PayPal in other non traditional cases - disbursements for example. For example, if a user doesn’t have a PayPal account, the merchant can now prepopulate the customer data they’ve already collected and all the user will need to do is confirm the data and setup his/her account password and security questions. But in your mind, if you had to come up with one interesting application that people could use as an example, what would you think something Two enduring tenets of Web 2.0 are "A platform beats an application every time" and "All
    OReilly Radar - Monday, December 14, 2009
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  • Natural Organization - Fire Brigade - A Modern Example
    Is there a modern example of the Natural Organization hiding in plain site? You have to make the best call instantly - only masses of experience can give you that edge. Yes there is. It is how fire fighters organize. Years ago I won in a raffle dinner for 4 at Fire Station Number 1 in Toronto with the crew and the Deputy Chief. As I heard the chief speak, I knew that all my ideas
    Robert Paterson's Weblog - Tuesday, June 23, 2009
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  • The Cutting Edge of Smart Cards: Japan's Suica Card
    We can find a more cutting edge example of smart cards in, where else, Japan. An example is Sherelog , a service that fetches data from Suica and "visualizes personal train-ride records on a large public map (or Google Map)." Probably the best example of Internet applications built using Suica has been the 'SuiPo' (short for 'Suica Poster') sites. This week we're looking at the world of Smart Cards. Yesterday we checked out the Oyster Card , an RFID-powered smart card that millions of Londoners are using to pay for public transport.
    ReadWriteWeb - Tuesday, September 1, 2009
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  • Reuse Wine Bottles as Garden Edging [Gardening]
    Annie and Alexis Thomas were looking for a green way to edge their gardens in an interesting and novel way. They edged their sizeable garden with 489 bottles—most collected from local restaurants and wine stores—partially buried, as the demarcation between the gardens and the foot paths that wind through them. Check out the link below—scroll down past their cool solar shower to get to the wine bottle project—for more information, or visit the If you're ever on the lookout for ways to reuse and recycle—or perhaps just to drink a lot of wine—this wine-bottle garden border is a clever and attractive repurposing project.
    Lifehacker - Saturday, February 27, 2010
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  • Google, China, and the New High Ground of Advantage
    And the recent skirmish between Google and China is its best example yet. The new high ground is an ethical edge. An ethical edge doesn't just build stronger brands, though added cred is a certainly a benefit. The only way to step past the industrial era's zombified endgame is the new high ground, because only an ethical edge can do all the good stuff A hill, a giant chasm, and a cloud-covered peak. Close your eyes and picture a lopsided "M" for a second.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Friday, January 15, 2010
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  • The Finance 2.0 Manifesto
    For example, as Niall Ferguson has pointed out, the modern central bank was effectively invented centuries ago . Edge funds. An edge fund is the opposite of a hedge fund. Where hedge funds are opaque, edge funds are transparent. Dear G20 , It's confusing. Should you tax bankers' bonuses,
    HarvardBusiness.org - Wednesday, April 1, 2009
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  • Profitably Running an Online Business in the Web 2.0 Era
    Consequently, I've been pulling together notes, talking to mashup creators, and studying real-world examples of how companies are applying innovative ways of generating revenue with Web 2.0 Turn applications into platforms and get 5, 50, or 5,000 additional uses ( Amazon has over 50,000 users of its line of business APIs) for example. Seems easy but almost all companies have One of the things I'm doing this week is preparing for a presentation at Web Builder 2.0 on how to monetize mashups in Las Vegas next week. applications and open APIs .
    Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog - Wednesday, November 29, 2006
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  • The Generation M Manifesto
    For example, the auto industry has cut back production so far that inventories have begun to shrink — even in the face of historically weak demand for motor vehicles. There couldn't be a clearer example of why GDP is a totally flawed concept, an obsolete institution. Umair and the Edge Economy Community Dear Old People Who Run the World , My generation would like to break up with you.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Wednesday, July 8, 2009
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  • Fit Body, Fit Mind? Your Workout Makes You Smarter
    And not just challenging your noggin by, for example, learning a new language, doing difficult crosswords or taking on other intellectually stimulating tasks. Although the idea of exercising cognitive machinery by performing mentally demanding activities--popularly termed the “use it or lose it” hypothesis--is better known, a review of dozens of studies shows that maintaining a mental edge requires more than that. As everybody knows, if you do not work out, your muscles get flaccid. What most people don’t realize, however, is that your brain also stays in better
    Scientific American - Wednesday, July 1, 2009
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  • Network Strategy and the Anti-Defense
    So here's a simple, powerful example of perhaps the most radical tactic: the anti-defense. But you can anti-defend against a network attack, by decentralizing your own resources to the edges — something that, in physical warfare, is a big no-no. That's a textbook example of an anti-defense. Last week, I wrote a post about the tactics of 5G warfare, network strategy, etc. Judging by the comments, quite a few of you got it — but some of you thought it was sci-fi.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, August 17, 2009
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