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July 24, 2013
Get Ready to Smile With These 60 “Happy” Facts
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The world is really a wonderful, funny place. You just have to know where to look. Inktank has put together a list of the world’s “60 Happiest Facts” that are guaranteed to bring a smile to your lips or a chuckle to your tummy. Here are a few:
A group of flamingos is called a flamboyance.
If you fake laugh long enough you’ll start to really laugh, really, really hard.
The book cover to the prize winning short story collection, Spellbound, was chosen because author, Joel Willans,...
Are You Over-Subscribed?
Ezra Galston, a VC at the I2A Fund, wrote a great piece for TechCrunch exploring web service subscriptions based on targeted consumer research. It’s always refreshing to see market or opportunity analysis using quantitative methods rather than just back-of-the-napkin assumptions. Now, with some caveats to that:
The survey reflected more than 100 opt-in respondents, 96 percent of whom are between the ages of 23-33. Though significant, the sample is not representative of a...
July 23, 2013
I love forced perspective photography
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These are awesome examples of creative perspectives and the power of photography to trick our brains. Smiles abound!
Originally posted 2013-02-01 10:39:00.
Photos: Blurry Images a Thing of the Past?
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Everyone has shot a blurry image or two. But that’s not the worst part. It’s finding out later, after the shot has long passed, that it’s out of focus.
Thankfully, new photography innovation may make those blurry shots a thing of the past:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/9568340.stm
In short:
The device allows all depths of a scene to be recorded in one image, allowing anything to be put in focus after it has been taken.
There’s a great video talking about this...
Want To Change Healthcare? Change the Culture First.
Posted in Healthcare
What’s at the core of the healthcare issues today? Is it a bloated infrastructure? Is it old, manual processes? Or is it something more fundamental?
If we want to change healthcare, change the system through which people find, get, and pay for care, we have to look at the issue much deeper than the process or the money. We have to look at the behavior, the very culture, of how we seek healthcare.
A disregard for cost
The first element of the healthcare culture that has caused...
The Human Brain is a Crazy Place!
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This is a series of Ted Talks about our penchant to believe (or want to believe) irrational things. From seeing faces in Mars to our own consciousness, these videos are well worth a couple hours of your life. Of course, it’s fun to poke fun at ourselves but keep in mind that many of the mentally ill, especially schizophrenics, don’t have the ability to discern rational from irrational, especially when in the sway of full blown symptoms. Truly gives perspective to how amazing...
July 22, 2013
Your Light in the Digital Darkness: Digital Presence for Dummies
Posted in Marketing
This was original published on the Limelight Blog as part of my day-to-day responsibilities as Sr. Director, Marketing Strategy. The article information about Digital Presence for Dummies, the book I wrote for Limelight. It’s free and it’s available now:
We know. This whole digital thing can seem daunting at times. At first you were just juggling a couple of balls—your website and some email newsletters. Now with social media, mobile, video, and everything...
Benefiting from Information Overload
Posted in HumanIntelligence
There has been a lot of talk about the impact of information creation on our ability to remember as well as the power of language. But one unacknowledged benefit of having everyone connected via a vast social network is our ability to raise awareness for issues and to seek out advice. In the article link below from Slate, a mother was able to diagnose her son’s condition by posting pictures to Facebook and interacting with both a primary and secondary network of fri...
July 21, 2013
Extending the Kindle Platform into the OS
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Recent software by Amazon enables you to “right-click add” any document on your Windows PC to Kindle:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/?docId=1000719931&tag=gmgamzn-20
Although this is not innovative in and of itself (in fact, many companies have done this; my own startup, GoWare, did this 5 years ago with a feature called “send to my phone” whereby you could right click on anything in your computer and automatically have it converted and sent to your phone as part of a pe...
The Democratization of Healthcare
Posted in BusinessHealthcare
I think it’s safe to say that technology has had a profound impact on a significant number of major industries. In many cases, it’s been to make things more efficient. Technology can replace manual, paper-based process. Technology can enable faster data collection. Technology can expose behind-the-scenes machinations so people really know what’s going on.
From education to manufacturing to car insurance, technology has reshaped (or is reshaping) how industries opera...
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