Game designed to improve Physical Fitness by making running fun. (more)

Nathan Lewis and John Robb both had recent posts on how to start creating some small examples of communities they'd like to see. (more)

WebApp-based EMail (more)

VoIP service that was acquired to form Google Voice. (more)

Start Up that chooses to Route Around existing companies (Disruptive Innovation) rather than selling tools to them (Sustaining Innovation). (more)

Marc Andreessen starts a series of posts on Career advice (Making A Living). (more)

John Luik says the WHO's Health Promotion (Physical Fitness) policies are loaded with Pseudo-Science. Take, for example, one of the most extensive and publicized efforts in health promotion of all time, the Mr Fit (Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial) which was specifically designed to establish the truth of health promotion by showing that Heart Disease and Cancer could be reduced through reducing Blood Pressure, Cholesterol Level, and Smoking. After sixteen years of study, the intervention groups, which had received extensive assistance with exercise, changing diet and Smoking cessation, had results which were not significantly better than the group that had received none of these "health promotion" interventions. Indeed, the intervention group, despite lower rates of Smoking, actually had higher rates of lung cancer. What Mr Fit showed was precisely how Life Style interventions failed to reduce mortality from multifactoral diseases like cancer and heart disease. Nor was Mr Fit a scientific fluke. Consider the Framingham Study. Begun in 1950 as a longitudinal investigation of the causes of cardiovascular disease, some 5,209 men and women aged 30-59 were followed for 30 years on the assumption that those who were thinnest would have significantly lower risks for Heart Disease. But in 1979 when three of the study's lead researchers published their data it was found that for men the highest risk - that is the worst Life Expectancy - was for the thinnest men; men who were 25-40% fatter than the ideal weight were living the longest. For women, mortality was elevated only for the very thin and the very fat. The recent Centers for Disease Control (CDC) study on Obesity and mortality produced similar results. (Public Health)

More liquid (Network Economy) version of the Job Market. (more)

Esther Dyson Public Health Start Up. (more)

Esther Dyson recently ceased investing to focus her attention on a new challenge, HICCup... an initiative to set up citywide health (Public Health) intervention programs in five or six communities of 100,000 people or fewer. HICCup’s team of “counselors” will work with community leaders and spokespeople in these cities to make small and everyday changes to improve health, like a Friday night soccer game or new school lunch options... HICCup will support these communities in any way it can, including helping them forge partnerships with larger health companies. HICCup will measure over time how some of the new programs are actively making a difference — “‘BigData’ up the wazoo,” Dyson puts it... Dyson fears that many of the early-stage health IT startups are too insulated in Silicon Valley, one of the wealthiest communities. She recommends breaking out of “the bubble,” and having conversations with the “99 percent,” people who are balancing family budgets around healthy food every day.

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Electric Energy outage (more)

Social Networking service that launched in 2014, intends not to sell ads. (more)

Venkatesh Rao posits a Halls Law as analog to Moores Law during industrialization. The unsung and rather tragic hero of the story of interchangeability was John Harris Hall (1781 – 1841), inventor of the Hall carbine. So I am naming my analog to Moore’s Law for the 19th century Hall’s Law in his honor. The story of Hall’s Law is in a sense a prequel to the unfinished story of Moore’s Law. The two stories are almost eerily similar, even to believers in the “history repeats itself” maxim... Hall’s Law: the maximum complexity of artifacts that can be manufactured at scales limited only by resource availability doubles every 10 years... I believe this law held between 1825 and 1960, at which point the law hit its natural limits. (Note this covers 2-3 Technological Revolution-s in the Technological RevolutionsAndFinancialCapital model.) (more)

reactive Public Safety (more)

Hack Athon-s were held at JotSpot and Atlassian (Confluence WikiEngine) to spur Innovation (and give Engineer-s a sense of Engagement outside the Block And Tackle of their normal days). (more)

He is the co-founder of the XOXO Festival, founder of UpComing, a former CTO of KickStarter, and author of the Waxy.org blog. (more)

one technique of Personalization, based on taking one user's preference/rating (Product Review) data and finding other people with "similar" taste (more)

creator BlogDex (more)

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