October 2012
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Jay Parkinson + MD + MPH = a doctor in NYC: We're... →
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December 2011
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July 2011
1 post
raven2099 asked: About your Advertising Manage Version 3.4.19...
how do I make it add an AD below my posts?
Oh yes and your url on the plugin gives a 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable error
how do I make it add an AD below my posts?
Oh yes and your url on the plugin gives a 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable error
June 2011
1 post
OpenX vs Oyster.com smackdown
OpenX logo:
Oyster.com logo:
Ours looks better :)
May 2011
5 posts
Vermont first state with single payer healthcare... →
I spent six months with Jay looking at the existing healthcare insurance landscape, and we agreed that a watered down national healthcare bill will not be effective reform. A single payer system is a proven model, and a state run single payer system is a great start. Hopefully more states will take the lead here and remove healthcare insurance state by state.
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History revisited: Google/Android 2011 vs.... →
This article about how Google is using ‘Android Compatibility’ as a tool to dissuade manufacturers from using Google competitors is just like what Microsoft did in the nineties to encourage their OEMs to use Microsoft preferred browsers, ISP’s etc.
Hopefully I am wrong, but it seems like that this behavior is the beginning of the end of innovation for them - kinda like what...
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Ecommerce and Document Databases →
In this blog post, MongoDB gives a high level overview on how document databases are particularly suited to ecommerce (as well as analytics). There are a few people who are using MongoDB for ecommerce, and I think that this is one area where document databases will perform well.
There is yet to be an open source ecommerce application which uses a document database (to my knowledge). Perhaps...
Re: Why I'll remember May 2, 2011 →
Redditor describes how Americans were ‘celebrating in the streets’ upon news of Osama Bin Laden’s death. I had a similar feeling as the poster - however, my disgust was toward news stations who manufactured this silly reaction. I don’t (refuse to) believe that celebration was on many of US people’s minds.
I spent time reflecting on our actions before the event, how...
January 2011
3 posts
Faces of the OpenX Community →
Here are the photos of 2,130 people who have used OpenX for their job!
Magento Connect Manager Requires Write Permissions...
This is what I get when I try to install a Magento Extension:
Error: Please check for sufficient write file permissions
Your Magento folder does not have sufficient write permissions, which this web based downloader requires.
If you wish to proceed downloading Magento packages online, please set all Magento folders to have writable permission for the web server user (example: apache) and...
Real Blogs Don’t Buy Ads On Google - Really? ... →
Mike Arrington effectively said that a blog should not buy traffic if they were a ‘real blog’. hmm. Let’s think about this a moment.
Using analytics, it is easy (or, if not easy, possible) to segment your users into different buckets. For example, three buckets of engagement, high, medium, and low.
Using an ad server, it is possible to report on the revenue that is made from...
November 2010
1 post
A VC: Mobile First Web Second (continued) →
Fred Wilson wrote a post about how companies build their mobile presence first, and their web presence second, showing a shift in how people use the internet.
I would probably modify this idea, with the following:
API First, Mobile Second, Web Third
The most important consumer of your product in this age is not necessarily a person, but a machine. By building your API first, a mobile presence...
September 2010
1 post
Lego Cubestormer robot solves Rubik's Cube in... →
I used to get $0.50 in grade school for solving Rubiks Cubes. An automated Lego Mindstorm Rubik’s Cube solver ticks some of my favourite geeky themes. If only the robot was in the shape of the Millenium Falcon!
August 2010
1 post
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Microblogging - Creating an Enterprise Platform...
Microblogging is the practice of providing quick updates which are published out to your ‘followers’ or ‘friends’. Consumer microblogging platforms (e.g. Twitter and Facebook status updates) are major ways that people keep updated on what others are doing in an extremely efficient way, and something that did not occur until recently.
Five years ago, if I wanted to update...
July 2010
2 posts
Health and Human Services finalizes meaningful use... →
The body of this O’Reilly Radar post gives a pretty fair description on the state of healthcare data (spoiler: its in pretty bad shape). It will take decades for physicians, hospitals, and other healthcare institutions to move from paper to data, or to format data into a usable format (e.g. there are competing and inadequate standards, etc.)
It is great that the U.S. government is...
Mobile, desktop or cloud: Where does the future of... →
Deciding how cloud based services avoid vendor lock-in is certainly going to be a topic of discussion for the next few years as more services move to the cloud. Open source will need to adapt to the cloud if it is to remain relevant.
May 2010
5 posts
Comparing E-mail Address Validating Regular... →
The all singing all dancing email validation regex
Self-Insured Employers | Health Insurance.info →
Notes about self insurance for corporations
Advertising Manager for Wordpress v3.4.18 Released
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symfony | Web PHP Framework →
Logo Designers - Start A Logo Design Contest at... →
April 2010
8 posts
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The chances that you do not get a 'set' in Set →
Peter Norvig, who is a Really Smart Guy, is talking about the odds of game Set, one of my favorite games. I thought that I was really good at this game (average time was < 10s to find a set), until my 9yo niece routinely beat me when I was visiting for the weekend. I am still not quite over the humiliation!
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New opportunities for healthcare startups →
The 6 opportunities mentioned in this article are fairly broad, but right on.
In general, people who do not have insurance today may choose an option different than the existing insurance companies. The goal is to create an experience where people can get value for money, and have a much better experience than the existing confusion that is healthcare today.
The real challenge is that I...
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Smallunch Framework - Features to Work On
As I wrote before, I discovered Smallunch, which is a structured framework built on top of Zend Framework. As many people have commented in the past, Zend Framwork is more like a library (e.g. PEAR) than a framework with a designed structure for building web applications.
I am keenly interested in Zend Framework, because there are a lot of people working on it and creating projects on top of it,...
Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP... →
I couldn’t agree more!
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Information We Can Trust - Who we use to make...
I watched the presentation that Michael Specter gave at TED. As with all TED presentations, it was very good, and thought provoking.
The basic theme to this talk was that people should not ignore science, and that ignoring science is detrimental to human development. There were a few examples that Michael showed how people were ignoring science:
MMR / Autism - parents were not inoculating...
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Apple's IPhone Platform vs. Google's Adwords...
Apple’s decision to stop 3rd parties from placing themselves between Apple and the developer has created quite a discussion online, following John Gruber’s discovery of their modified agreement. Apple’s decision is sound - they want developers to have access to all features of their IPhone - not just the features that the 3rd party decides to support.
Compare Apple’s...
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Smallunch - Framework for Zend Framework
I am in the process of starting a new software project, and I did much research on which technologies to choose from. There is a large community component to my project, and this software will be used by people globally. Because of this, as well as other factors such as cost of developers, availability of developers globally, ease of learning, speed of development, stability of platform, etc.,...
