Three of My Favorite People at the Twitterville Book Launch

August 24, 2009

I just don’t know how Ken Yeung keeps snapping these great pictures in the middle of busy events.

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Twitter, Discovery, a Pig, and Me

August 23, 2009

Yesterday I realized again how completely changed my life has been by social media.  I spent the entire day (outside of the dog walk) with people I did not know before Twitter, who I now consider dear, close, cool friends. I drove into San Francisco for Chris Heuer‘s 40th birthday party, a pig roast. I […]

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Toxic Assets Take a Back Seat to Health Care Reform

August 12, 2009

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Elizabeth Warren made an appearance on  Morning Joe this morning and woke me up at 5 AM PDT with the force of a revelation: those toxic assets are still on the books of the banks.  The banks, which have taken so much of our children’s futures in the form […]

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Facebook, Friendfeed, the Real Time Stream, and RL

August 10, 2009

Today’s big news, in case you are — let’s just say — a surgeon in the operating room or the President in a Summit–is that Facebook acquired Friendfeed. I have several minor insights to contribute to the conversation about this: 1)Only the unemployed or underemployed even know about it yet, because they are the only […]

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Will "Free" Work in the Electronic Health Records Market?

August 6, 2009

Health records want to be free. At least that’s what PracticeFusion, a two-year-old company that makes SaaS  electronic health records (EHRs)  and practice management software thinks. Never mind that people might be scared to put their health records on the internets, PracticeFusion’s hypothesis was that doing a deal with Google to put ad words on […]

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Why You Want Health Care Reform

August 2, 2009

In March, the Coastside Family Medical Clinic, a local clinic serving the population of Half Moon Bay and its surrounding area, abruptly closed its doors, leaving 8,000 patients without a  primary care doctor.  The Clinic ran out of money because 1)insurers took too long to re-imburse for services, 2)many patients had no insurance, and 3) […]

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Who Makes Money in the Cloud?

July 29, 2009

This is my seventh AlwaysOn Stanford Summit. I thought it looked a little smaller, but Tony Perkins told me at lunch that they had 850 people on the register, and that they had sold out of CEO Showcase spots.  I can see that, because the showcases seem packed.  There are many startups in the world. […]

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Who's Making Money in Mobile

July 29, 2009

After listening to Paul Jacobs of Qualcomm talk about where they are focusing, which unsurprisingly includes health care  and remote patient monitoring, the panel at the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit on who is making money in the mobile space went off into much more  interesting business models. They convinced me we have only begun to see […]

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Friend, Follower, Fan, or Fake?

July 25, 2009

It’s a beautiful morning to think about what’s happening to the winning social network sites as we early adopters all get what we thought we wished for: mainstream acceptance. Well, now here came everybody and we have to deal with it.  Chris Brogan has a great post about this called Quid Pro No, which deals […]

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What We Did Before Home Entertainment Systems

July 22, 2009

Sometimes they gathered in each other’s homes and listened to music. That’s why one genre of classical music is still called “chamber music.” It was played in people’s living rooms, three or four instruments and a small group of listeners. A few friends and I had this magical, back to the future experience last night […]

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