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Biznik is a Seattle-based startup that aims to provide “business networking that does not suck”. I admit I was a bit sceptical about another social networking site aiming to compete with LinkedIn, Spoke and the rest, but yesterday I became a convert, after attending a glitzy Oscar’s-themed event at the Fremont Studios organized by Dan [...]

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There’s a bit of a heated discussion going right now on Techcrunch due to Thwirl missing from the top 20 popular Twitter clients’ list. Technically, the list is correct. Techcrunch put down the selection criteria loud and clear - “popularity, as measured by unique monthly visits”. Unfortunately it’s a bad metric for client applications for [...]

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I’ve added the Disqus comments and UserVoice feedback widgets after some research into what’s being curently offered. GetSatisfaction and UserVoice were in the running for the feedback features. I eventually chose UserVoice because of their “AVIS” situation (”we are second, so we work harder”). UserVoice pricing seemed quite appropriate for startups and the like. Disqus [...]

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The US stimulus plan includes $19 billion to modernize the healthcare information technology. I spent four years in the healthcare IT area, first designing patient management systems for hospitals in Germany and then working on public health applications in Canada. During this time I learned a few simple truths

Data interchange costs in healthcare are not [...]

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Anil Batra and Loren Bast shared their insights at the STS meetup yesterday.

Profiles are great for separating traffic from development/testing and production sites. Setup one profile to hold ALL data, in case you make a mistake, and then create a “Production” profile that has a filter on your dev and test machines (IPs, subdomains or [...]

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As I am planning our next steps at CueSense, I am heavily relying on Bryan Starbuck’s (CEO of TalentSpring) ideas from his December STS talk and this deck. Bryan’s 10x philosophy has already caused me to sharpen our mission. Although CueSense addresses many user needs, one must find needs urgent enough to make users jump through hoops and give your service a try. The social [...]

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