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The new generation of health care starting up. Revolution Health is obviously a company to watch. Retail-based convenient health care centers that provide fast, affordable treatment for routine medical conditions with RediClinics. They also bought a stake in InterFit Health ( ), one of the USA’s largest providers of retail health screenings and immunizations delivered […]
Adrian has just pointed out to me that I havent mentioned my latest venture here. This venture is a follow on from Our Social World. The primary intention of OSW was to introduce Cambridge businesses to blogging. This largely failed although the conference was succesful in different ways, especially in finding out about other Cambridge […]
Last night Ian Grove Stepehensen of The Chalkface Project gave an interesting talk at CHASE. These are some notes I made.Have 400 titles aimed at secondary schools. No new titles now all new stuff is elearning.Virtual corporation with 4 full time employees.Started elearning with iamclever then paperless-school written in Java. Current site is yacapacaSoftware developed […]
Here is the nub of the worlds future : “I will call on Puru Saxena’s nugget about per capita consumption of oil. US per capita consumption is about 25 barrels per year. China’s and India’s per capita consumption is less than one barrel. What do you think will happen to global demand for oil when […]
This is just so true Kim Cameron’s Identity Weblog: “I guess I’m in input mode.” some days there are just so many interesting things to read and no time to write. Certain books have this effect on me, they are so good I cannot finish reading them the minute I read a page it sends […]
I was a guest speaker with Suw and Saira on what I believe is the first BBC programme to give blogging a 30 minute slot. (The programme is available here until 9th October 2005). It was well put together by Clare and I think offered a very balanced view on the subject. I’m not sure […]
Could Morfik be the company that Robert is hoping Microsoft will buy? It certainly is a very interesting product “offers developers the opportunity to create web applications that run on the desktop after being unplugged from the web” This would mean for instance that a product like gmail could run even with the web disconnected […]
Here is a neat way of working out what each of the founders should get when starting up a company although how it works when no one is ‘commited’ (Bacon & egg story) I’m not sure. Interesting to know how this fits in with Philips Equity fingerprint ideaCutting Up the Founder’s Pie
Just for Nick or Tim a great use for that redundant sledge hammer – get typing. Would be brilliant at the fair – see who can type The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog Boing Boing: Sledgehammer keyboard
Two really excellent books on what is involved with blogging, both free, and very readable. Seth Godwin’s is really good (a 26page pdf download for the paper junkies). Interestingly he has given up publishing ‘real’ books due to the inordinate time delays from writing to it getting on the shelves. Also a great book (slightly […]