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Empower Thyself Manifesto | The Empowerment

Too strange. Control your PC with thoughts….

The OCZ NIA is a very unique input device and possibly the first true brain-computer interface to hit the retail market. However, the NIA isn’t a replacement for traditional input methods, it is merely a powerful supplement. Whether your input device of choice is a standard keyboard and mouse or a gamepad / joystick, the NIA will give you a lot of extra flexibility. Not only will you be able to control numerous commands with your mind, face muscles and eyes, you’ll also instantly benefit from the response time advantage your head has over your limbs. This could mean a 100ms boost in response time, which can make all the difference in a tense game.

OCZ NIA Brain-Computer Interface - HotHardware

Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide for O’Reilly

Business thinking and strategies behind successful Web 2.0 implementations.

Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide | O’Reilly Media

So thats’ sounds hair-rasing!
Laptop Losses Total 12,000 Per Week at US Airports

But really you can say anything with statistics.

Break-it-down.
= 1,714 a day
But there are 517 airports in the US, of which 382 are primary. Lets just take the airports classified as Hubs = 139 see http://www.aci-na.org/index/airportsyou_faq#q-how-many-airports

1714/139 = On average that’s only 12 laptops a day per major airport.
or about one every hour…

Now take a major hub airport like Chicago, which has 2663 aircraft movements a day, of which 64% are commercial = 1704 flights a day! Passenger totals 76,248,911 pa equate to 197,942 people a day. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O’Hare_International_Airport

Well, that statistic sounds pretty bland now. At a major commercial airport in any one hour:
* 16,495 passenger leave/arrive
* 142 commercial flight are processed
and, just one laptop gets lost!

Damn lies and statistics

One for Shane!

Time to bespeak up and defend the language

“All models are wrong, but some are useful.”

So proclaimed statistician George Box 30 years ago, and he was right. But what choice did we have? Only models, from cosmological equations to theories of human behavior, seemed to be able to consistently, if imperfectly, explain the world around us. Until now. Today companies like Google, which have grown up in an era of massively abundant data, don’t have to settle for wrong models. Indeed, they don’t have to settle for models at all.

The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete

I don’t want my ideas to be sticky; I want them to be SLIPPY. I want them to slip out of my control and through social spaces and communities. I want folk to find my ideas and the things I make socially useful; I want folk to add to them and rebuild and rework them and spread them further (you see, I’m not hung up my ideas); I want my ideas to change the way that folk interact with each other, to distort how their social connections work, to be worth passing on…because only by being SLIPPY will they have some impact on the behaviour of folk out there….
Herd - the hidden truth about who we are: Born Sticky or Born Slippy?

Then I took a look at the technology. I started with the obvious - get a DV camera, point it at someone and record what they’re saying. I then showed how to simply take that footage, edit it quickly using Windows Movie Maker, add a title and some credits and create a movie file. I think this is simple now and there are tutorials all over the web, but I forgot how complicated it can seem if you’ve never seen it before.Videoblog Masterclass - Using video as a social technology ? Perfect Path

VRM, or Vendor Relationship Management, is the reciprocal of CRM or Customer Relationship Management. It provides customers with tools for engaging with vendors in ways that work for both parties.

CRM systems for the duration have borne the full burden of relating with customers. VRM will provide customers with the means to bear some of that weight, and to help make markets work for both vendors and customers — in ways that don’t require the former to “lock in” the latter.
Main Page - Project VRM

So the value proposition is a winner. But it’s the emotional connection that seals the deal. This company is fanatical about great service—not just satisfying customers, but amazing them. The company promises free, four-day delivery. That’s pretty good. But most of the time it delivers next-day service, a surprise that leaves a lasting impression on customers: “You said four days, but I got them the next morning.”Why Zappos Pays New Employees to Quit—And You Should Too - Bill Taylor