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Competition for Research on Smart Disclosure
Just an alert to interested people (especially grad students, current or newly minted) of a competition for proposals for research into smart disclosure. What is smart disclosure? "Smart Disclosure” policies help consumer markets work more competitively by providing decision-makers with convenient, computable, and cogent data--both about products or services and also about personal use patterns …
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Education worth spreading
TED has just released Ted-Ed, a series of videos for educational purposes. The organisation is slick but the best part is that educators -- like myself -- can edit a video's page to tie in with their own lesson preferences. Here is one that I just edited; mostly because it is a longstanding interest of …
Pebble makes it big
A couple of months ago my watch died. I didn't mourn, I had come to hate it. Basically, it was purchased in the pre-iPhone era and for years I lamented that no technological change had come to the watch. It was a pain to change the time and all the other functions were clunky. I …
A Big Payoff
Google and Apple are two of the most profitable companies on the globe today. They seem to share little in common except that achievement. They took very different paths to the stratosphere. Google, after all, is less than a decade and a half old, a child of the web with a successful approach to advertising, …
Before the year is out, Google will have acquired Pinterest
That's a prediction not a fact. And I know predictions are dangerous but this one seems to have a solid rationale. I'll explain. First of all, if you missed the last month in social media, it was all Pinterest all the time. What is Pinterest? Well as David Pogue points out, it is exactly what …
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iHonesty
Can an iPhone app keep businesses honest? Apparently so when it comes to the accuracy of self reported information about skiing conditions. That is the finding from a new paper by Jonathan Zinman and Eric Zitzewitz. Here is the abstract: Casual empiricism suggests that deceptive advertising about product quality is prevalent, and several classes of theories explore …
Publishers and chickens
There has been lots of discussion this week about Amazon's growing power. This NYT piece heralded Barnes and Noble, once the thing that was supposedly destroying book selling, as its saviour. And today, there was this post on the Authors Guild blog that compared the plight of publishers/authors to that of chicken growers. Here is …
Learning on speed
The biggest announcement in education, particularly digitized education, in January was … no, not that. Sure, Apple got lots of press and attention for its foray into textbook publishing but I think that was secondary to another announcement made a few weeks earlier on January 3rd. That was when the Khan Academy announced that Vi Hart would …
Sharing and ad revenue
Felix Salmon looks at new platforms that make sharing easy -- specifically, Tumblr and Pinterest. Reblogging, on Tumblr, is so easy that the vast majority of Tumblr sites actually create little or no original content: they just republish content from other people. That’s a wonderful thing, for two reasons. Firstly, it takes people who are …
Digitopoly 