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You may remember the hilarious SNL character Theodoric of York, Medieval Barber. If not, here is a link to the hulu site.
Theodoric of York (clip)
It’s certainly easy to laugh at the ignorance of our ancestors. Then again, I wonder if we’ll be proud of all the things we “know” 100 years from now…
What is the moral?
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Be it video analytics, data analytics, intelligence based on the available data is paramount to making productive use of video. The most effective Managed Video service will “hook into” best of breed intelligence services.
Managed Video Systems should strive to be great at managing video and making it easy to link that video with data. [...]
My college hockey coach used to say, “If we’re not winning, we’re learning.” Today’s economic “lessons” are a great case in point. While many of us don’t feel like winners when we look at our stock portfolios, if we step back, we can observe what we’re learning on a macro level about the way we [...]
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A friend of mine asked me the other day how my business was faring. He wondered whether the recessionary environment was hurting me given the fact that many of my customers are in the retail and restaurant markets where times are pretty tough lately.
While I wouldn’t say that the recession is good for [...]
About a week ago, two Envysion colleagues and I had the pleasure of meeting Micah Baldwin, head of business development for Lijit. The purpose of our meeting was to gain some perspective on blogging and to learn how we might make the MVaaS blog more appealing and dynamic. Micah generously shared his blogging philosopy:
Write as [...]
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In my post yesterday, I introduced the subject of the Birthday Problem. Did you try to guess at the answers?
For those of you previously unfamiliar with the Birthday Problem, I suspect that your guesses, unless you took pencil to paper, were rather inaccurate. It is still surprising to me that you need only 23 randomly [...]
I absolutely love speaking with restaurant owners about the benefits of video surveillance. It helps that as a past owner myself, I understand exactly how video helps an operation. But help trim food costs?
Restaurant menus are thoughtfully constructed with food cost, gross profit and gross revenue in mind. The menu layout is designed to psychologically [...]
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While our country celebrates its birthday today, here’s an interesting problem from the field of mathematics. I first learned of the Birthday Problem in a statistics class I took at NYU (at least I remembered something, Professor Melnick).
In summary, the Birthday Problem calculates the probability that at least two people from a randomly chosen group [...]
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Independence Day in the U.S. is celebrated as the birth of the nation. Although independence was not assured (it took nearly eight years of war, and another five years until the Constitution was ratified), the signing of the Declaration of Independence was a pinnacle moment. There was no turning back for the colonists [...]
I’m a little behind on my reading, but just read a great post from Brad Feld on how software companies can often forget to fix the little things in their application that may seem insignficant, but that drive customers crazy.
It would seem to me that the mark of a customer focused, highly successful software company [...]
