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Amazon unveils its own smart grocery cart, in new effort to automate physical retail checkout

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. “We built this predominantly as an alternative to things like express checkout, where you still end up waiting in line, or fumbling with self-checkout machines,” said Dilip Kumar, Amazon’s vice president of physical retail and technology, in an interview this week. GeekWire File Photo).

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Extinction Timeline: what will disappear from our lives before 2050 - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Permalink | View blog reactions | Comments (2) Categories : Social trends Share this: Digg this | Reddit | StumbleUpon | Del.icio.us | Share on Facebook 2 Comments Keith De La Rue said: Interesting read. And of course, please don’t take this too seriously :-). Glad to see that you recognise the global importance of Philip K.

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Launching the Web 2.0 Framework - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

companies and applications are mapped out across two major dimensions: Content Sharing to Recommendations/ Filtering ; and Web Application to Social Network. Recently commented on The Future of Sales is Social (the rise of social CRM) (3) Brian Vellmure (@CRMStrategies) wrote:Ross,Good stuff as always.

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Social networks, intelligence, and homeland security - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

However social network analysis has been applied by intelligence agencies and law enforcement for decades. Interestingly, two Australian software companies are world leaders in applying social network analysis in these domains. Insurance and retail fraud are other important applications. This is a field set for massive growth.

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Social networks, data mining, and intelligence - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

I have no doubt that the analysis techniques used on this data were primarily network mapping, using software such as Netmap , which I described in an earlier article on social networks and intelligence applications. Searching for patterns in this data is a network analysis application, and the state of the art is pretty good now.

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The state of social networking software for the enterprise - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Yet social networking is not just about friends and personal networks. Applying social networks in the enterprise is a sweet spot that has massive potential value. Spoke had a unique model at the time, providing both social networking applications inside the enterprise, as well as a public version of their application.

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Openness, network effects, and competition in social networks - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

From the very beginning of the social networking space, with the launch of sixdegrees.com in 2000 (which gave up the ghost in January 2002), the fundamental underlying issue was whether social networks would be entirely exclusive and competitive, or whether they would in some way integrate to create a global social networking space.

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