Scandid.in is a shopping assistant with features like price alerts. We have entity based product matching which works for 98% of times across 25m products. Would love to give some inputs/help out if possibble, ping me if you are interested.
There will be a lot of iterations and improvements to your approach and the methodology.
Despite that, it is high time that low impact chronic conditions are treated in a personalized manner - by noting patient specific conditions and using the variations caused by lifestyle changes - for improvements.
Kudos to the team. Absolutely the step in the right direction
Remote as a hybrid approach will be accepted norm. Remote work for few weeks a year will be accepted norm. Remote medicine will co exist will inperson visits. Remote education will co-exist will in person school.
I hope this to be the case, but the large businesses that own large chunks of city real estate will push hard to get people back in and paying rent.
Frankly, I hope some areas are abandoned or made radically cheaper, and are reclaimed by impoverished artists and other bohemians. This process has happened in the past and has enriched many old cities. By the same token, I'd also love to see blue-collar workers able to move back into cities where they work, but where they're currently priced out of house ownership.
We might see a boom in commuting two or three days per week, and a growth in clusters of more localised communities, more like villages than cities. They might encircle a city made of a mix of business meeting places (office blocks) and the more bohemian/blue-collar pockets I mention.
At least, that's what I'd like to see. I don't know if it's a prediction as such.
I'd also like to see desk- and office-rental businesses openly embrace this and explicitly move away from current models that encourage the corporate sterility seen in many modern cities, and towards an enriched, happier working environment.
How come no one mentioned Steve Jobs and his commencement speech at Stanford? It is absolutely one of my favorites. I watch it everytime i feel that i could use a dose of motivation.
I think it is more than iCloud. it is making your profile, your personalization and your content roaming. In case of iCloud, it is only the content if i am not wrong.
MobileMe has been doing settings and contact and such for a while now. It's buggy, mind you, but all of that functionality is going to iCloud.
You buy a new iPhone, login to iCloud, and it pulls all your settings over, configures your mail client, calendar, installs your apps, and downloads your music. You add a contact on your phone, it goes to your MacBook and iPad, etc.
This is a very interesting article. I am myself working on a project and considering good friends to be co-founders in that. But based on what Paul Allen is mentioning here and based on few other stories of startups which made it big like Facebook, few thoughts came to my mind:
1) Is it that to make it really big, to the likes of Microsoft, Facebook a founder has to play games and trick his own friends in a way that the founder owns majority of stake in the company. I am not necessarily saying it is bad, it is just a observation and want your opinion. It is totally possible that one of the co-founders is so passionate about the idea that he works hard by twice or thrice as much as other cofounder and in the process somehow manages to get hold of major equity. What do you think? Is it necessary to be evil to make it big? Does your passion blind you somewhere in the process where one cannot distinguish right from "not so much right"?
2) I dont see and havent heard about Steve Jobs being great friends with Steve Wozniak. So is Bill gates with Paul Allen. Facebook Mark Z and other cofounders have some fights between them too. Given this and stories from similar or smaller companies, it makes me think, is it possible to have a good and healthy friend ship like relationship with your co-founder after a period of time? Or with the turn of events in the company it is bound to happen that the relationship will go sour?
What do you guys think?
Another example: the beetles. Perhaps one of the greatest creative partnerships of all time, churning out two records a year for 7 years, and then were sick of each other and broke up.
This doesn't really make me feel a lot better. I'm glad they backtracked, but doing so quietly once they got caught does not inspire much faith in their passion to make technology that makes the world a better place.
That is so true. I also did not understand what the real world application around this technology would be. Any ideas there? Something that can be understood in not so layman terms :)
1) A distributed wikipedia/dbpedia. Instead of fighting with deletionists, one would just run its own node of the graph database, and keep/merge/sort changes that they see fit.
2) Recommendation engines that are seeded with the user data, at the edge. For instance, instead of me having to upload my song library to Apple or having a last.fm scrobbler running, I would able to have a "Genius" feature without ever having data leaving my computer. If I want to get my friends' recommendations, I could just add them as peers.
3) A medical expert-system that can analyze my medical records that I hold, instead of one central place. Instead of trusting something like Google Health or Microsoft HealthVault to keep the data safe, I can be the only one with access to it, and only talk to my doctor if this system triggers some sort of alarm.
