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Trivial Posts #6: Boston’s Budget, Chocolate And Creme, Leap Seconds To Disaster

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A busy week for me with CES going on and lots of news to stay on top of, but that does’ mean there’s no time for some fun posts! Once more, here’s the weekly collection of interesting posts, ideas, video clips, essays, images, and anything else that catches my eye online Don’t forget to subscribe to the mailing list so you never miss anything trivial! Faster, Better, Stronger, More Expensive… Boston is rather upset that it’s getting to bid for the 2024 Olympic Games. The small committees, politicians, and planners are going ‘this would be a good thing, we can build new public transport links’,

A/B Testing Booth Babes

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Delightful guest post by Spencer Chen (Head of Marketing at Frontback) on Techcrunch. Through circumstances he had two booths in different areas at an SAP show, so he decided to do some experiment to get some actual data. My theory from years of being a part of trade show staffs is that the booth babes we hired were actually a drag on lead-gen. Up to that time, it was all empirical evidence based on being at shows where we had money to hire booth babes and events where we didn’t. I noticed that we had always done better without the

Sony’s “We’ll tell you later” fitness tracker sums up the problem with CES

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One of the issues that is building up around CES is the need for companies to present ‘something big and world changing’ every twelve months. Sony’s announcement of their new fitness and emotions tracker (Gizmodo) feels like a company that has had to find something to present to get the headlines – presumably because another waterproof smartphone and a return to the American smartphone market isn’t enough for the ravenous hordes prowling the show floor for something shiny and ‘new’. The device and associated smartphone app (to be released when? We’ll tell you later) will have other partners involved (we’ll tell

Intel’s SD-Sized computer and the question of power

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There’s something thrilling and ‘living in the future’ with Intel’s announcement of Edison, a computer with Wi-Fi built into the form factor of an SD card at CES (TNW and others). I suspect the team behind Raspberry Pi are pouring over the specs and capabilities this morning to assess the weaknesses and strengths, but there’s something that caught my eye about the Edison. Where’s the power source? It’s all very well having “Pentium-class computing” in this small form factor, but the power requirements of wearable tech coupled with a need for multiple days between charge (at a minimum) are just as