Category: Digital Health

  • Patients Out of Time: Crowd-sourcing access to a prohibited medicine

    This forum and the growing interesting in medical marijuana are yet another example of the power of the Internet and social networking to drive research and access to a recently banned substance traditionally used for medicinal purposes. Patients Out of Time. Related articles Seed of Relief Aims to Find Answers for Pain with Medicinal Marijuana…

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  • Internet Evolution: Seven Questions for Social Networking Success

    Pretty good tips for social networking… Internet Evolution – The Big Report – Seven Questions Key to Social Networking Success. Related articles The Evolution of Word-Of-Mouth (And What It Means to You) (blogs.constantcontact.com) Social Media Strategy: “I don’t think my audience is using social media.” (digitalsurgeons.com) 10 Tips to Improve Your Business’ Social Media Presence…

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  • Sleep apnea treatment through ancient medicine

    Tired of uncomfortable and ineffective Western treatments for the disease, some patients are turning to alternatives including playing of the Didgeridoo developed by Australian aborigines which is shown to reduce symptoms of sleep apnea. Relief of Sleep Apnea can be found using CPAP devices, but compliance is low – WSJ.com.

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  • Supernormal Stimuli: evolutionary basis of human behavior

    Book Review: Supernormal Stimuli – WSJ.com. Awesome new book on evolutionary anthropological basis of behavior Related articles How Technology is Like Bug Sex (psychologytoday.com) Nir Eyal: How Technology Is Like Bug Sex (huffingtonpost.com)

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  • You are not a gadget

    Interesting book against the increasingly reductionist view of our lives Rage against the machine – Boston.com. Related articles Infographic: CEO Gadgets (ceo.com) This Sleep Gadget Is A Right Lark (time4sleep.com) Is ‘Gadget Paranoia’ Blowing Your Buzz? (businessinsider.com)

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  • Sign in to read: The writing on the cave wall

    Sign in to read: The writing on the cave wall – life – 17 February 2010 – New Scientist.  The origin of all languages. The universal pictographic code from 30,000 years ago. Related articles Ancient pictographs from Montana state park break off, fall from cave wall (missoulian.com) The Man Cave (sprayfoamdirect.com) Kryptonite Cave (birthdayinabox.com) A…

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  • Text Mining: The Intersection of Content & BI

    Good overview of the use of text mining for BI. Text Mining: The Intersection of Content & BI – Software – Information Management – Informationweek. Related articles Text Mining Allows Marketers to Listen More Carefully to Web Chatter (daveibsen.typepad.com) How To Write an Academic Paper in Text Mining (datamining.typepad.com) Market Leader Linguamatics Awarded Funding for…

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  • Digital Anthropologists define human use of technology

    Great profile of the new breed of scientists mixing anthropology and engineering to improve our understanding of human usage of new technology Digital Anthropologist – Forbes.com.

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  • Topix: Crowd sourced news portal

    Topix: Your town. Your news. Your take.. Related articles LightArrow Announces Online Productivity Portal for its LifeTopix Calendar App (prweb.com) LightArrow Updates the LifeTopix App with Freehand Notes, Streamlined Agenda and Other Major Enhancements (prweb.com) LightArrow Announces Upcoming Sync Enhancements to LifeTopix App Utilizing Dropbox and Google Drive (prweb.com) LifeTopix App Review (forums.crackberry.com) Topix won’t…

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  • Using Census data for life science intelligence

    Many government resources are a great way to gather intelligence for life science companies: Census Bureau Homepage. Related articles New Microdata from the Census Bureau (kauffman.org) New Data from Census Points to Falling Job Creation (kauffman.org) Kauffman Foundation-Funded U.S. Census Bureau Data Highlight Importance of Business Startups to Job Creation in the U.S. (kauffman.org)

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  • Competitive Intelligence: Fuld & Company

    Listening to interesting presentations by principles of this company on life science CI: The Global Leader in Competitive Intelligence │ Fuld & Company. Related articles Competitive Intelligence System Success Factors (billives.typepad.com) Competitive Intel Analyst, Horizon Blue Cross – NJ (sla-divisions.typepad.com) The Real Deal: Jim Fowler on Competitive Intelligence. Or If they ask you, you didnt…

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  • SleepCoach: Web based ethnographic approach for insomnia

    This is a good idea: a web based method to deliver cognitive therapy for insomnia. I’ve also looked at something called the ZEO which tracks your movements too. There is Mac software that uses the Mac’s webcam and an infrared light to do the same which I have tried. Welcome to the new SleepCoach. Related…

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  • Muziic: Get access to YouTube music without having to search through thousands of pet tricks

    Get access to YouTube music without having to search through thousands of pet tricks. Muziic – Free on-demand music, internet radio and more! – The YouTube Media Player – YouTube Music. Related articles Layne Publications Introduces New YouTube Video Channel for Bluegrass Music Enthusiasts (prweb.com) Egypt court orders YouTube blocked for a month (news.yahoo.com)

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  • The end of the office… and the future of work

    www.boston.com So recently I’ve been taking a look at new forms of work including elance, odesk and of course well known micro-commerce sites like threadless, etsy, and those periodic sales on ebay… What is interesting is how this article shows these are all part of a larger shift in the way we work which encourages…

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  • Human behavior is 93 percent predictable, research shows | Northeastern University News

    via www.northeastern.edu Human behavior is 93 percent predictable, a group of leading Northeastern University network scientists recently found. Distinguished Professor of Physics Albert-László Barabási and his team studied the mobility patterns of anonymous cell-phone users and concluded that, despite the common perception that our actions are random and unpredictable, human mobility follows surprisingly regular patterns. The…

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  • What Ruins Running – A bio-anthropological perspective

    viawww.boston.com It is interesting to read this and other recent articles on the bio-anthropology of running: namely that running and walking barefoot follows our natural biomechanics. A number of more ergonomic footwear companies have now emerged to provide footwear that gives more space in the toe area. Related articles BioFit Helps Lab Specifiers Resolve to…

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  • ContactNet. The Leading Enterprise Relationship Management Solution for Law Firms> Solutions > Hubbard One

    ContactNet. The Leading Enterprise Relationship Management Solution for Law Firms> Solutions > Hubbard One. Related articles Does Your EMR Need a Facelift? The decline and fall of enterprise relationship management Enterprise HR company Workday gunning for $400M IPO RIM plans new contact management features on BB10 devices (Euan Rocha/Reuters) Contact Management Software Basics 3 things…

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  • Whocalled.us: trace that caller

    whocalled.us. Related articles Background Checks Do’s and Don’t’s (kellybusinessadvisors.com) Background checks should be required for all gun purchases (bangordailynews.com) Info Quest, Inc. Unclear about Background Checks? (backgroundchex.wordpress.com) 3 Little Known Reasons Employers Ask for a Background Check (kellybusinessadvisors.com) Obama urges tighter background checks on gun buyers (news.yahoo.com) WhitePages’ new Current Caller ID app is the…

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  • TextExpander: Mac Typing Shortcut Utility Saves You Time!

    TextExpander: Mac Typing Shortcut Utility Saves You Time!. Related articles TextExpander [Sponsor] (smilesoftware.com) Sponsor: TextExpander 4 (smilesoftware.com) TextExpander 4 adds features, leaves Mac App Store (macworld.com) Super-Fast WordPress Blog Posts via E-Mail with TextExpander 4 (georgecoghill.wordpress.com) TextExpander 4 Forced To Depart Mac App Store Over Apple’s Sandboxing Rules (cultofmac.com) TextExpander for Web Developers (mac.tutsplus.com) OS…

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  • Alex (Sandy) Pentland Homepage: Honest Signals, Reality Mining, and Sensible Organizations

    Alex (Sandy) Pentland Homepage — Honest Signals, Reality Mining, and Sensible Organizations. What if you could see yourself as others see you? What if you could have a God’s eye view of how the people in your social network interact? Or `see the rhythms of interaction for everyone in your town? Or even the entire…

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