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Post by clone on Feb 7, 2011 22:02:51 GMT -8
Google is well known for their creative ideas and doodles we see on different special occasions worldwide. Today also, we can see an awesome doodle on Jules Verne Birthday celebration. Jules Gabriel Verne was a French author from Brittany who pioneered the science-fiction genre. He is famous for his novels including Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), A Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873). This redesigned Google logo has a lever which can be drag with your mouse giving you navigate the 20,000 leagues under the sea. All to say Happy Birthday Jules Verne! www.neuroseoservices.com/blog/2011/02/google-creativity-on-jules-verne-birthday-celebration/
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Post by moabiter on Feb 8, 2011 9:43:21 GMT -8
Neuroscience Meets Marketing. Buyology is the biggest branding revolution in 50 years. The world’s largest NeuroMarketing experiment scanning 2,000 consumers across 5 countries. The findings from the $7 million study is likely to solve the problem of decreasing returns on ever-increasing advertising expenditure. It will turn every concept you've learned about branding and advertising inside out and upside down. "Lindstrom explores neuromarketing with impressive clarity in Buyology. .... brands including Nestle, Pepsi, Nokia, Microsoft, Disney, P&G, GSK, McDonald's, Sony and others. www.martinlindstrom.com/index.php/cmsid__neuroscience
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Post by clone on Feb 27, 2011 21:13:23 GMT -8
Wed Feb 16, 2011 at 10:56 PM EST UPDATED: The HB Gary Email That Should Concern Us All by Happy Rockefeller As I also mentioned yesterday, in some of the emails, HBGary people are talking about creating "personas", what we would call sockpuppets. This is not new. PR firms have been using fake "people" to promote products and other things for a while now, both online and even in bars and coffee houses. But for a defense contractor with ties to the federal government, Hunton & Williams, DOD, NSA, and the CIA - whose enemies are labor unions, progressive organizations, journalists, and progressive bloggers, a persona apparently goes far beyond creating a mere sockpuppet. According to an embedded MS Word document found in one of the HBGary emails, it involves creating an army of sockpuppets, with sophisticated "persona management" software that allows a small team of only a few people to appear to be many, while keeping the personas from accidentally cross-contaminating each other. Then, to top it off, the team can actually automate some functions so one persona can appear to be an entire Brooks Brothers riot online. www.dailykos.com/story/2011/02/16/945768/-UPDATED:-The-HB-Gary-Email-That-Should-Concern-Us-All----------------------------- Exclusive: Military’s ‘persona’ software cost millions, used for ‘classified social media activities’ Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011 -- 5:49 pm But what does the US military use those same networks for? Well, we can't tell you: That's "classified," a CENTCOM spokesman recently informed Raw Story. One use that's confirmed, however, is the manipulation of social media through the use of fake online "personas" managed by the military. Raw Story recently reported that the US Air Force had solicited private sector vendors for something called "persona management software." Such a technology would allow single individuals to command virtual armies of fake, digital "people" across numerous social media portals. These "personas" were to have detailed, fictionalized backgrounds, to make them believable to outside observers, and a sophisticated identity protection service was to back them up, preventing suspicious readers from uncovering the real person behind the account. They even worked out ways to game geolocating services, so these "personas" could be virtually inserted anywhere in the world, providing ostensibly live commentary on real events, even while the operator was not really present. www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/02/22/exclusive-militarys-persona-software-cost-millions-used-for-classified-social-media-activities/manufacturing assent lol power to the software! building consensus! (sorta) a strong base of supporters! well, if fickle fran likes it! so do I!! what themindfuck.
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Post by clone on May 14, 2011 18:24:43 GMT -8
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Post by clone on Jun 18, 2011 17:50:26 GMT -8
Silly Putty enables new Smell-o-vision device 18:05 17 June 2011 Attempts to build virtual scents are nothing new, but the scientists behind this latest device say that previous techniques don't allow enough control and are too bulky to scale down for home use. Their new approach, published this week in the journal Angewandte Chemie, traps odorous gases inside small cells made from polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), the material which gives Silly Putty its unusual properties. Each cell has a small hole in the top which opens when the gas inside is heated, releasing the desired odour. www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2011/06/silly-putty-enables-switchable.html
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Post by clone on Jul 10, 2011 8:29:24 GMT -8
Your brain, just brighter. www.lumosity.com/landing_pages/42Improve brain health and performance. •Brain training produces real world benefits •Enhance memory, attention and creativity •Easy, web-based brain training program Copyright © 2011 Lumos Labs, Inc. All Rights Reserved Lumosity partners with researchers at Stanford, UCSF, Harvard, and Columbia, among other prestigious universities.
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it is not policy stupid
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Post by it is not policy stupid on Dec 21, 2011 23:27:42 GMT -8
Exploiting neuroscience lessons to shape policy 29 November 2011 Last updated at 05:31 ET Politicians and their advisers are exploiting advances in neuroscience in order to better understand the public, and how they make decisions. From deciding what to buy in shops, to which candidate to vote for on election day, our decisions are based as much on emotional impulse as rational calculation. It is a point appreciated by the philosopher David Hume when, in the early part of the 18th Century, he wrote, "Reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of passion". www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-15657652
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