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May 17, 2012
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Curated News - Wearing a Computer Is Good for You - Technology Review
May 17, 2012
“Mobile health devices and software could change medicine profoundly, allowing people to continuously monitor vital signs and better track and modify behavior. That’s important because chronic diseases like obesity and diabetes are on the rise.”
Curated News - EveryMove lands $2.6 million to create a ‘mileage rewards program’ for health - GeekWire
May 17, 2012
“A TechStars Seattle grad, Benaroya said that EveryMove is trying to put “the consumer at the center of their health,” giving them power to control how their activities translate into economic rewards. Participants could earn rewards, for example, for riding a bike to work or eating healthier food at lunchtime.”
via EveryMove lands $2.6 million to create a ‘mileage rewards program’ for health - GeekWire
Curated News - Personal Informatics in Practice: Deep Personalization | Quantified Self
May 17, 2012
“I have used some applications in my phone that keep track of my activities. Most of them do a good job in their own right; however, they always seem to come out short –no single application tracks my activities in the way I really want it to be tracked, and the feedback is almost always some graphs which are either unappealing or doesn’t give room for self-discovery. I can’t play with my data.”
via Personal Informatics in Practice: Deep Personalization | Quantified Self
Curated News - Pepsi and Competitors Scramble as Soda Sales Drop - NYTimes.com
May 17, 2012
“The health and wellness trend is huge, permanent and important,” Mr. Douglas said. “My crystal ball says that a smart beverage company will sell a variety of products, and some of them will have bubbles and some of them won’t.”
via Pepsi and Competitors Scramble as Soda Sales Drop - NYTimes.com
Curated News - Facebook Needs to Turn Data Trove Into Investor Gold - NYTimes.com
May 17, 2012
“I think that we’re going to reach this point where almost every app that you use is going to be integrated with Facebook in some way,” Mr. Zuckerberg says in the video. “We make decisions at Facebook not optimizing for what is going to happen in the next year, but what’s going to set us up for this world where every product experience you have is social, and that’s all powered by Facebook.”
via Facebook Needs to Turn Data Trove Into Investor Gold - NYTimes.com
Curated News - Facebook Needs to Turn Data Trove Into Investor Gold - NYTimes.com
May 16, 2012
“What Facebook already has — more than any other digital company — is a spectacularly rich vault of information about its users, who cannot seem to stay away from the site.”
via Facebook Needs to Turn Data Trove Into Investor Gold - NYTimes.com
Curated News - Foursquare’s Cofounder Just Dropped A Big Hint About His Next Startup - Business Insider
May 16, 2012
“While many people think of Foursquare as a check-in service, Crowley and Selvadurai have consistently pitched it as a data-driven recommendations engine which analyzes and rewards real-world behavior.”
via Foursquare’s Cofounder Just Dropped A Big Hint About His Next Startup - Business Insider
Curated News - Mark Zuckerberg’s Hidden Talent: Firing People - Business Insider
May 16, 2012
“Basically, there are two ways to build an organization,” a former Facebook employee explains. “You can be really, really good at hiring, or you can be really, really good at firing.” Zuckerberg has been really good at firing. “We made some hires that weren’t the right ones. And we were pretty good at correcting that quickly. Mark deserves the credit for identifying and following through with that.”
via Mark Zuckerberg’s Hidden Talent: Firing People - Business Insider
Curated News - Complication is What Happens When You Try to Solve a Problem You Don’t Understand | SIGPWNED
May 09, 2012
“Ultimately, a programmer’s job is less to actually write code, and more to manage complexity.”
via Complication is What Happens When You Try to Solve a Problem You Don’t Understand | SIGPWNED