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Should businesses use collective intelligence and the wisdom of the crowds?

ChiefTech

Professor Michael Luca and his co-authors analysed the top 100 reviews from 40 media outlets, including the New York Times, and the Washington Post, between 2004 and 2007 for their paper. Earlier in the year, a report was published of researchers who looked at mining Twitter to predict the success of movies.

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Google's "Opinion" Sparks Interesting Dialog On Tying of Services to Search

John Battelle's Searchblog

So let me pivot from Matt's opinion to mine. In late 2004, for example, Google announced they would be incorporating millions of library texts into its index, but made no announcements about the role the company might play in selling those texts. And quite often, those inputs are based on human contributions in some way.".

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Part 2: OMG! Not another digital transformation article! Is it about the evolution from RIM to Content Services?

ARMA International

In 2004, Giovanni Bisignani, CEO of the International Air Transport Association (IATA), made the case for the travel industry to reimagine its future: “Internet savvy travelers appreciate the convenience … Our mission is to keep the value and eliminate the cost. The travel industry has already reimagined its future. Looking Ahead to Part 3.

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10 Personal Finance Lessons for Technology Professionals

Troy Hunt

In fact, those guys are all pretty good examples of the ability to build amazing things from the ground up and I'm sure that many of you reading this have sat down and started building something with the same enthusiasm as, say, Zuckerberg did with Facebook in 2004. I would never want to live in any of our properties we bought as investments.

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