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Online samples – where lighting a few fires might help

By Tim Macer on 31st Jul 2010.

Will a new and much-needed initiative to provide industry-wide tools to monitor online sample quality put fire into the hands of mortals?

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How will iPad affect research?

By Tim Macer on 29th May 2010.

IPad has launched in the UK. Don’t believe the nay-Sayers, this is a gadget with a future and one that could have a positive impact on MR.

Where are the tools to enable Web 2.0 research?

By Tim Macer on 16th Nov 2009.

Researchers cannot afford to ignore Web 2.0 approaches to research, as Forrester’s analyst Tamara Barber makes clear in a persuasive article on Research Live, in which she settles on market research online communities (MROCs) as being the most effective way to achieve this.  How to do Web 2.0 research, from a methodological point of view, [...]

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Predicting an outcome for Dimensions under IBM

By Tim Macer on 29th Sep 2009.

Now that the dispute with SPSS founder Norman Nye has been settled, it looks very likely that the IBM takeover of SPSS will go ahead. Though SPSS spokesperson Heena Jethwa put up a spirited defence in Research magazine (Commitment to MR ‘as strong as ever’, says SPSS) last month, the question remains for the hundreds [...]

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Translation on the fly (or on the sly)

By Tim Macer on 7th Sep 2009.

A new plug-in to the Firefox web browser that promises to take webpages in any unfamiliar language and, as you browse, translate them into English or the language of your choice.

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Predictive and precarious

By Tim Macer on 28th Jul 2009.

So the news breaks that SPSS has pulled off a marriage with an IT industry behemoth. While many have speculated that SPSS was hoping to get bought by Microsoft, the big surprise is it’s the sober suits at IBM that have carried off the bride. Now, the real reason for the big name change is [...]

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Has the Insight Show overheated?

By Tim Macer on 3rd Jul 2009.

Technology was an aspect of this week’s Insight Show that the exhibition’s promoters were majoring on, yet on the ground the number of technology providers exhibiting at the show was thinner than ever. The day I was there seemed to be the one when competing sales teams converged on the orange carpet between their stands to chat about who was up to what and complain about the heat.

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An end to endless meetings

By Tim Macer on 26th Jun 2009.

I was at the Royal Statistical Society’s Annual Awards last night, and found myself talking with a colleague – a client’s supplier – perhaps ‘work cousin’ would be a good description. I was managing a project that her business partner was actively involved with. As usual at meaning, we had been using 37signal’s Basecamp, a [...]

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Read the results: Fifth Confirmit Annual MR Software Survey

By Sheila Wilson on 10th Mar 2009.

The report fom the latest Confirmit Annual MR survey is now available, giving an in-depth picture of the state of technology in the global market research industry.

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