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By Tom Simonite
Prototype software called Lifebrowser uses artificial intelligence to help you revisit important events, photos, and e-mails from your own life.
Mining personal data to discover what people care about has become big business for companies such as Facebook and Google. Now a project from Microsoft Research is trying to bring that kind of data mining back home to help people explore their own piles of personal digital data.
Software called Lifebrowser processes photos, e-mails, Web browsing and search history, calendar events, and other documents stored on a person's computer and identifies landmark events. Its timeline interface can explore, search, and discover those landmarks as a kind of memory aid.
"The motivation behind Lifebrowser is that we have too much stuff going on in our personal digital spheres," says Eric Horvitz, the distinguished scientist at Microsoft who created Lifebrowser. "We were interested in making loc ...
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One of the most common reasons we experience presentation anxiety is the fear that we will forget what we have to say and risk losing credibility. A method many use to address this fear is to create PowerPoint slides as a memory aid. However, this is short-sighted because nothing erodes your credibility as a speaker faster than signaling to the audience that you are dependent on your slides.
Seasoned presenters are able to announce a slide before showing it. At a minimum, they know their material so well that all they need to do is briefly glance at the slide to know what's coming next. You can achieve this by doing simple memory boosting practices to remember your presentation material and, in turn, reduce your anxiety.
Here are nine tips to help you remember what you have to say.
1. Use the Palace Method
Research into brain science has proven that there is a very deep connection between the way we remember an event and the space i ...
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While the economy has been showing a few signs of recovery, it's pretty clear that we're in for a long period of lackluster growth.
With this in mind, here are seven tips from top sales gurus for selling in a weak economy.
1. Don't Focus on Your Fear
You may be worried about the economy, your job, and everything else, but you can't let those worries rule your thoughts and actions. Don't waste precious enthusiasm dwelling on bad news. Rather than listening to the radio when you're on the road, listen to motivational CDs and MP3s.
2. Go on the Offensive
This isn't the time to hunker down. If you get on the defensive, you're dead. Instead, get more aggressive and set more aggressive goals. Use multiple points of customer contact, like your call center and product support website, to create new opportunities.
3. Create New Pricing Options
Work with your finan ...
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When you think of basic human rights, access to wireless broadband Internet probably isn't at the top of the list. But a new company backed by a Skype cofounder disagrees, and plans to bring free mobile broadband to the U.S. later this year under the slogan "The Internet is a right, not a privilege."
Called FreedomPop, the service will give users roughly a gigabyte of free high-speed mobile Internet access per month on Clearwire's WiMAX network and forthcoming LTE network. It will offer other low-cost prepaid plans that provide access to more data.
FreedomPop vice president of marketing Tony Miller gave few specific details about the company's offerings and how it plans to make money—and won't yet name executives or founders—but says he expects the service to roll out in the U.S. sometime between July and September and to eventually branch out to other countries as well.
FreedomPop's arrival coincides with the ...
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We can’t believe it’s already the middle of April – mostly because that means that March Madness was officially over a couple of weeks ago! If you had a chance to enter a bracket, we hope you enjoyed the tournament as much as we did. Our staff looks forward to March Madness each year, and we are excited to congratulate the winners of the 2012 Tournament Challenge. You can see the final standings below:
In case you don’t recognize our winners by their Tournament usernames, they are:
1st Place: Kole Puckett
2nd Place: Mike McBerty
3rd Place: Jennifer Franz
4th Place: Richard Weber
5th Place: Jeremy Ksionda
Our honorary staff winner (no prize included) was Kevin Crenshaw, who came in a close 6th after Jeremy, with just one less point. You can also check out our Facebook page for pictures of the winners who dropped by the AgniTEK offices to pick up their prizes!
Don’t forget to mark your calendars for next March and join us for the 6th Annual Agn ...
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