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January 11, 2012

Browsing Breakthrough: Augmented Reality

January 11, 2012/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 11JAN2012 from http://informationweek.com/news/internet/browsers/232400071 With a simple smartphone camera and Aurasma's free app (iPhone and Android), you can get video layered onto real world images. Aurasma starts as an app that runs ...

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January 11, 2012/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
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Marketspaces, Socio-Technical
January 11, 2012

Augmented Reality

January 11, 2012/ Gary Riccio

As mobile platforms come to dominate the market for on-line games, and the lowest common denominator of low-investment entertainment gains an even greater market share, there will be an under-served niche of gamers who want to engage more deeply a...

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January 11, 2012/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
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Marketspaces, Socio-Technical
January 10, 2012

Transmedia & the Future of Entertainment

January 10, 2012/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 10JAN2012 from http://www.nypress.com/article-22745-transmedia-the-future-of-filmmaking.html The financial crisis of 2008 significantly lessened private equity's desire to sink investments into films, independent and otherwise.. Cinema w...

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January 10, 2012/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
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Best of 2012
January 10, 2012

Venture Capital Outlook

January 10, 2012/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 10JAN2012 from http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2012/01/09/vc-outlook-flybridges-greeley-... Michael Greeley (general partner of Flybridge Capital Partners) discusses the harsh realities of the industry, as well as what it would take ...

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January 10, 2012/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
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Finance
January 10, 2012

Venture Capital Activity Good But Mixed in 2011

January 10, 2012/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 10JAN2012 from http://www.pehub.com/131028/vc-funds-raised-1817b-in-2011-the-most-since-2008/ The $18.17 billion is the most collected by VC funds since 2008, when 212 funds raised $25.9 billion, Thomson Reuters and the NVCA... In 2011, ...

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January 10, 2012/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
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Finance
January 10, 2012

Mobile App Usage Increasing

January 10, 2012/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 10JAN2012 from http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/09/flurry-mobile-app-usage-up-to-94-minutes-per... the most recent growth in mobile apps usage hasn’t really been at the expense of browsing the traditional web. People have just been using mo...

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January 10, 2012/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
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Favorite Posts, Socio-Technical
January 10, 2012

Female Founders In Tech Startups

January 10, 2012/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 10JAN2012 from http://www.npr.org/2012/01/09/144906849/seeking-female-founders-in-the-tech-s... Kelly Hoey thinks a lot of investors may be missing some good business opportunities because they aren't coming from someone who looks like t...

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January 10, 2012/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
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Collaborative Intelligence, Finance
January 10, 2012

The New (And Chaotic) Frontier Of Business

January 10, 2012/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 10JAN2012 from http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/162/generation-flux-future-of-business Uncertainty has taken hold in boardrooms and cubicles, as executives and workers (employed and unemployed) struggle with core questions: Which comp...

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January 10, 2012/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
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Collaborative Intelligence, Socio-Technical
January 10, 2012

A Definition of Entrepreneurship

January 10, 2012/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 10JAN2012 from http://www.inc.com/eric-schurenberg/the-best-definition-of-entepreneurship.html Entrepreneurship is the pursuit of opportunity without regard to resources currently controlled. it comes from Harvard Business School, of all...

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January 10, 2012/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
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Collaborative Intelligence
January 10, 2012

Blended Reality

January 10, 2012/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 10JAN2012 from http://tinyurl.com/7gn8e7p by Arnab Sen (head of strategic planning at MRM in India) Social science studies increasingly suggest that the divide between the virtual and real worlds is narrowing. Our experiences of reality ...

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January 10, 2012/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
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Favorite Posts, Socio-Technical
January 06, 2012

Assessment and Game-Based Learning

January 06, 2012/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 06JAN2012 from http://techchange.org/2011/05/25/the-self-imposed-challenge-assessment-and-ga... Generally speaking, there are two common forms of assessment used in schools. The most straightforward kind is when you have an answer key an...

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January 06, 2012/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
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Advanced Analytics, Best of 2012, Marketspaces
January 06, 2012

Company Intelligence Support Teams

January 06, 2012/ Gary Riccio

The mission of COISTs is to describe the effects of the weather, enemy, terrain, and local population on friendly operations to reduce uncertainty and aid in decision making... The COIST provides a 24/7 analytical, production, and dissemination ca...

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January 06, 2012/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
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Collaborative Intelligence
January 06, 2012

Collaborative Intelligence: Using Teams to Solve Hard Problems

January 06, 2012/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 06JAN2012 from http://tinyurl.com/7tetm2h (Amazon Book) Book by J. RIchard Hackman (2011) Intelligence professionals are commonly viewed as solo operators. But these days intelligence work is mostly about collaboration. Interdisciplinary...

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January 06, 2012/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
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Collaborative Intelligence
January 06, 2012

Making Collaboration Work

January 06, 2012/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 06JAN2012 fromhttp://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/06/six_common_misperceptions_abou.html by J. Richard Hackman Teamwork and collaboration are critical to mission achievement in any organization that has to respond quickly to changing circumstan...

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January 06, 2012/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
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Collaborative Intelligence
January 06, 2012

The Business of Gaming

January 06, 2012/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 06JAN2012 from http://www.economist.com/node/21541161 New, more casual sorts of games are being picked up by a mass audience that would previously not have played at all... So the industry has branched out into a bewildering variety of s...

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January 06, 2012/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
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Best of 2012, Favorite Posts, Marketspaces
January 06, 2012

Why Community Is as Critical as Content

January 06, 2012/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 06JAN2012 from http://multi-local.posterous.com/why-community-is-as-critical-as-content the community generates content too, and that your community can build on the strength of the ideas and the links that the users come there to share....

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January 06, 2012/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
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Advanced Analytics, Best of 2012, Collaborative Intelligence
January 06, 2012

5 Trends That Will Shape Small Business in 2012

January 06, 2012/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 06JAN2012 from http://multi-local.posterous.com/5-trends-that-will-shape-small-business-in-20 Social networks evolve into markets. As social networks become more important in the lives of their users and the level of social behavior cont...

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January 06, 2012/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
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Advanced Analytics, Collaborative Intelligence, Marketspaces
November 10, 2011

Choices with Consequences in a Virtual World

November 10, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 10NOV2011 from http://tinyurl.com/6mcy93b The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim In this open-world role-playing game, which Bethesda will release on Friday for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 (reviewed), everything is a choice. Almost every aspect ...

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November 10, 2011/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
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November 03, 2011

Financing of Companies Is Completely Changing

November 03, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 03NOV2011 from http://www.businessinsider.com/the-way-companies-are-getting-financed-is-comp... There are lots of trends people have been talking about in tech financing--"superangels"; delayed IPOs; secondary market sales; and more. But...

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November 03, 2011/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
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Favorite Posts, Finance, Socio-Technical
October 19, 2011

Internet Trends (Mary Meeker)

October 19, 2011/ Gary Riccio

Extracted 20OCT2011 from http://venturebeat.com/2011/10/19/fast-talking-mary-meeker-predicts-a-mobile-... At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco on Tuesday, Meeker returned to talk about internet trends... [Interesting data on trends in emerging m...

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October 19, 2011/ Gary Riccio/ Comment
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Marketspaces
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