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Wallet tracker tracks your most precious stuff

November 26, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Knowledge Management, Security & Privacy

Hands-On With The WalletTrackR, The Gadget That Keeps Tabs On Your Most Valuable Stuff For You
Colleen Taylor, techcrunch.com

When you’ve got a lot of things going on, it’s easy to lose track of where you left your mobile phone, keychain, wallet, or handbag — and the time you spend trying to find them just as you’re running out the door can make the difference…

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Reasons To Use The Phone Mileage Tracker (miletrackerapps.wordpress.com)
Lessons Learned from Years with Trackers (aroundthenest.com)
Fitness And Health Tracker Fitbit Is Raising $30M At A $300M-Plus Valuation (techcrunch.com)
New Device: Stop Online Tracking from Third Party Trackers (expertscolumn.com)
Mobile wallet technology raises privacy, security concerns (miamiherald.com)

Dropcam adds split screen

November 26, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Knowledge Management, Security & Privacy

Dropcam Updates Their iPad App So You Can Watch Your World In Split-Screen
John Biggs, techcrunch.com

I’ve used a few wireless, always-on webcams in my day and I’ve found Dropcam to be the best. Suddenly, however, Dropcam just got better.

Dropcam cameras connect wirelessly to the Internet, allowing you to connect to them remote…

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Eye on the Living Room: How Dropcam Makes Surveillance Feel Safe (xconomy.com)
Dropcam HD Wi-Fi Wireless Video Monitoring Camera (dropcamwifiwirelessmonitoringcamerara1.wordpress.com)
#!! Dropcam HD Wi-Fi Wireless Video Monitoring Camera Reviews (bcompmonitorse.wordpress.com)
Samsung SmartCam WiFi Home Security Camera (SNH-1011N) (pcmag.com)
Chat Multi-Tasking Is Facebook Home’s One Game Changer That Could Rattle Apple And Google (techcrunch.com)

Degreed disrupts college degrees

November 26, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Regenerative Economy

Degreed Wants To Jailbreak The College Degree
Rip Empson, techcrunch.com

There’s a lot of buzz about how new education platforms are making it easy to acquire the kind of skills that, traditionally, have been reserved for the hallowed halls of higher education. These services, whether it be Khan Academy …

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We Want To See You At Disrupt, East Coast, And Early Bird Tickets Are Nearly Gone (techcrunch.com)
A college degree has become the new high school diploma (costofcollege.wordpress.com)
How to get into IT. Degree, certs? Both? (community.spiceworks.com)
McDonald’s Is NOT Requiring College Degree for Cashiers (insidehighered.com)
All college graduates are no longer ‘special’ (costofcollege.wordpress.com)
The Higher-Education Bubble (flyoverpress.wordpress.com)

NYC is fast becoming a hub of health IT

November 6, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Ethnographic Methods, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Network Science, Sustainable Design

New Accelerator Is On A Mission To Turn NYC Into A Hub For Healthtech Startups
Rip Empson, techcrunch.com

Accelerators and incubators have been popping up left and right over the last few years, becoming, as Peter Relan recently put it, “an industry segment in their own right.” And while that industry segment has become more and more…

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Accel’s Kevin Comolli on New Europe Fund & Venture Scene: Q&A (pehub.com)
Accel’s massive new $475M fund is all about startups in Europe & Israel (venturebeat.com)
2-Year-Old Startup Supercell Generates $1.3 Million Per Day, And It’s About To Get A ~$100 Million Check (embargozone.com)
NYC Launches App to Teach Teens About Sexual Health (nbcnewyork.com)
Accel Closes $475M Fund To Invest Mainly In Europe And Israel, Focusing On Its Series A “Sweet Spot” (techcrunch.com)
New safe-sex app targets NYC teens (pix11.com)
The Dominance of ‘Angry Birds’: From Startup to Animated Series (news.terra.com)

Node is an iPhone scientific sensor

November 6, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Network Science

Hands On With The Node, A Sensor-Packed Smartphone Dongle
John Biggs, techcrunch.com

As a scientist practicing actual, bona fide science, I have often found myself in need of immediate g-force readings or barometric pressure analyses for my scientific problems. Whereas before I had to use my sextant and trident…

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Why NodeJs is the Best (lifeofastartupkid.wordpress.com)
WiFi Sensors from Monnit (dailywireless.org)
Through a sensor, clearly: Complex systems made observable (phys.org)

Avado shows healthcare is ready to move past the server huggers

November 6, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Network Science

Healthcare Finally Moving Past Wang-Like Legacy Systems
Dave Chase, techcrunch.com

Editor’s note: Dave Chase is the CEO of Avado.com, a patient portal and relationship management company that was a TechCrunch Disrupt finalist. Previously he was a management consultant for Accenture’s healthcar…

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Avado lands $1M to transform healthcare in the same way Mint upended personal finance (geekwire.com)
Oracle Is Bleeding At The Hands Of Database Rivals | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Escape Fire Documentary: Solutions to Healthcare’s Conflagration (duanepool.wordpress.com)
Bee-Huggers (washingtonmonthly.com)
New Crowdfunding Sites Boost Health Startups (news.terra.com)
iPhone 5S Release And A Possible (Not Possible) Launch Date: This Week In … – Huffington Post (huffingtonpost.com)

Shareist helps you manage your content

November 6, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Digital health, Knowledge Management, Regenerative Economy

Shareist Is A Content Management System For Your Content Management System (That’s A Good Thing)
John Biggs, techcrunch.com

As a major media figure on the Internet, I often find it difficult to manage all of my content outlets. I have a Twitter feed connected to my Facebook connected to my Tumblr. I also have a personal blog that I ignore and a few othe…

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The New Flipboard Lets You Create Your Own Mobile Magazine, Adds Search, Etsy And More (techcrunch.com)
SXSW Keynote Speaker Olivier Bau Talks About Creating Invisible Objects Using Electricity | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Essentialities and Relevant plugins to back up your wordpress site (itmashable.com)
Hacker uses a Kinect to help his mom email after a stroke (nextlevelofnews.com)
SEO for New Bloggers (zemanta.com)
Script of the Day: KISSCMS (news.softpedia.com)
The five most popular and developer friendly CMS – Best CMS for you (marketingcurry.wordpress.com)

Clayton Christensen: “Disruptive Innovations Create Jobs, Efficiency Innovations Destroy Them

October 12, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Design UX, Ethnographic Methods, Knowledge Management, Metadata Masterdata, Regenerative Economy

Clayton Christensen: “Disruptive Innovations Create Jobs, Efficiency Innovations Destroy Them”
Rip Empson, techcrunch.com

If you get the opportunity to hear Clayton Christensen hold court, seize it. Christensen is a Harvard Business School professor and renowned author and innovation expert, perhaps best known for his book “The Innovator’s Dilemma,” wh…

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Turning openness into a competitive advantage (visionmobile.com)
Innovation in the Works, Apple Is Set to Soar Again (thestreet.com)
Clayton Christensen: Studying the World Through the Lens of Business (entrepreneurshipmatters.com)
Don’t Wait, Innovate (avaya.com)
Vote for Grasshopper in the BostInno Insider Awards! (grasshopper.com)
Clayton Christensen on Apple, VCs and Tesla Motors (bizjournals.com)
Beyond the Buzz, Where Are MOOCs Really Going? (wired.com)
Disruption and higher education (paulmiller.org)

Fake Reviews Shadow Brands Selling Online

October 10, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management

Fake Reviews Shadow Brands Selling Online

Reality Check: 10-15% Of Brands’ Social Media Fans, Likes And Reviews Will Be Fake By 2014, Says Gartner (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch) (techmeme.com)
Facebook cracking down on fake ‘Likes’ (cnn.com)
Operation Unlike Is A Go: Page Fan Counts Are Dropping Because Facebook Is Deleting Fake Accounts (techcrunch.com)
Facebook deleting fake ‘likes’ (bbc.co.uk)
Facebook Weeds Out Fake ‘Likes,’ Improves Brand Integrity (mashable.com)
Facebook Jettisons Phony Likes (ecommercetimes.com)
Facebook trashes fake accounts, users, and likes (news.cnet.com)

How Obama Stole Romney’s RNC Thunder

September 7, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Data Governance, Knowledge Management, Regenerative Economy

How Obama Stole Romney’s RNC Thunder With Clever Social Media

Gregory Ferenstein, techcrunch.com

President Barack Obama managed to steal an impressive amount of Gov. Mitt Romney’s press coverage with a few, cheap social media tricks, including the most retweeted post of the convention. In comparison to the Republican National…

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Presidential Lessons on Selling Yourself Via Social Media | CareerBliss (careerbliss.com)
White House Marshals Social Media for Obama Address (blogs.wsj.com)
CareerBliss Guide: Social Media | CareerBliss (careerbliss.com)

Hybrid Calling: Say Goodbye to Big Cell

December 12, 2011 by timbatchelder, posted in Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

Example of residential network including VoIP (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Over the past month I’ve been using Google voice and other Wifi based VOIP apps as my primary personal phone service due to a disinterest in paying Verizon >$100 a month over a 2 year contract for a piddling number of calls and text messages. Now, it appears that a few companies including Republic Wireless and Ting who operate as MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operators) are bringing this concept to the masses and may soon be adding more phones including the iPhone…

Republic Wireless Officially Unveils $19/Month Service: Unlimited Everything, No Contracts | TechCrunch

Cell phone buying guide (reviews.cnet.com)
Watch out, wireless carriers: MVNOs are gaining momentum [GigaOM] (gigaom.com)
Mobile in-boxes: Will Google devour them all? (reviews.cnet.com)
Hands-On: Google Voice for iPhone still slightly underbaked (reviews.cnet.com)
Watch out, wireless carriers: MVNOs are gaining momentum (forums.pinstack.com)
TheDigest.com Announces the Must-Have Mobile VoIP Apps of 2013 (virtual-strategy.com)

Zink 2.0 inkless printers beginning to trickle out

August 24, 2009 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Design UX, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Metadata Masterdata, Systems Science

Zink 2.0 inkless printers beginning to trickle out | TechCrunch.

This inkless printing on super mini printer for 20 cents per image with sticky backing could truly flood the world with annoying photos. however it could be useful to communicate visually what needs to be done, where you are etc.

Concept Oksu mini printer offers clever way to use NFC (geek.com)
Compact, Customized Printing (coolest-gadgets.com)
Berg Little Printer (gadget.com)
Pandigital Zink Zero Ink Printer w/ Zink Paper 15-Pack for $37 + free shipping (9to5toys.com)
Polaroid Z2300 instant digital camera with ZINK printing technology (gizmag.com)

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