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Keep Your Friends Close, But Keep Your Users Closer Bonnie Bailey writes on the importance of knowing your users and keeping them close to you. The more you live and breathe your users, the more you know what they look like. Keeping your users close also implies making room for their data and their environments. |
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The Future of the Internet (of Things) In another twenty years our current Internet will seem just as archaic as 2004 does today, and we might very well look back at 2014 as the seminal year when everything changed. The new Internet will leverage wearable computers, anticipatory computing, and user context to deliver data. |
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Finding the Right People to Manage Your Programmers Managers are often the ones responsible for removing impediments, but finding people who are good at managing programmers is difficult. Steve Berczuk explores why quality engineering managers are hard to come by. |
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How Well Are You Managing Your Workday? How well are you managing your professional day? Once you manage your professional day efficiently, your personal day should fall into place. There are many available tips to manage one’s time, but they can easily get overwhelming. It's better to keep goals simple and start with a list. Read on. |
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If Failing Fast Is Good, Why Aren’t Mistakes Rewarded? Most literature about innovation tells us that making mistakes is fundamental to creative thinking. With so much focus on experimentation and failing, why is making mistakes still looked down on in most organizations? To answer this question, Anuj Magazine looks at what mistakes really are. |
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Why Companies Need to Be Cautious When Using Social Media With social media comes great responsibility and danger lurking with every post or tweet. In this story, Joe Townsend takes a look at that aspect of social media—when good tweets or posts go bad. In this ever-connected world, companies and individuals run the risk of things running amok. |
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Amazon's Anticipatory Shipping Model Explained Amazon made headlines recently with its new patent for an anticipatory shipping model. The model predicts what users would likely buy, when they would buy it, and where they would need it. Rajini Padmanaban examines Amazon's anticipatory shipping model and what it means for predictive analytics. |
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Mind the Gender Gap: Getting Women into Computer Science Careers Today, just a quarter of all Americans in computer-related occupations are women. Why is this field with such a promising outlook attracting so few female candidates? This story takes a look at what's deterring women and why it's important for everyone that they be represented in the tech workforce. |
