Who knew about Acxiom?
?Acxiom, one of the world’s largest data aggregators, has information about virtually every adult in America. It also manages and enhances data for major banks, insurers, direct marketers, the credit bureau TransUnion and others. It has developed some of the world’s most sophisticated data analysis software, some of which it uses for […]
Microsoft has acquired LookOut! This is awesome!!! LookOut has spread like wildfire, by addressing a really glaring gap in Outlook’s support for searching mail. There are lots of non-obvious implications for this deal; I think it’s going to be a big long-term win for us.
This article at ZDNet discusses ?Fixing Flaws in Microsoft’s Big Picture?; repeating the common theme that the company is growing kinder and gentler. The final paragraphs of the article talk about the blogging ‘revolution’ at Microsoft:
?Cultic thinking rarely survives prolonged contact with the real world … that contact is increasing exponentially; there are hundreds of […]
Today is the day that weexercise ouracoustic startle reflex. I’m finished with my experiments, but the neighborhood still sounds like a war zone. Why is it that loud booms, whistles, and bright lights are always accompanied by the urge to chew starburst?
I just started going through Copi’s Symbolic Logic for the nth time, andpaid some […]
Apparently the ACM is preparing to make a press release about the viability of electronic voting machines.The net result is that newpapers will soon be blaring the headline that ?ACM sayselectronic voting machines are not safe for democracy!? In some bizarre pretense at democracy, the ACM has presented only the arguments which favor their opinion, […]