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Saturday, 24 August 2013
Erase Yourself From the Internet With JustDelete.me
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Pegatron employee spies a pile of iPhone 5Cs, all warming up for September
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Doximity, A LinkedIn For Medical Professionals, Now Reaches About 30% Of Doctors In The U.S.
Doximity, which is like a LinkedIn for physicians that lets them share patient data in a HIPAA-compliant way, said that it’s now reaching about 30 percent of doctors in the country. They’ve got about 200,000 licensed physicians on-board across the U.S. in every major city and sub-specialty.
Two hundred thousand users isn’t a grand number in the scheme of most apps. But in the case of a highly-specialized vertical like medicine, it is.
“It took LinkedIn many times longer to reach that level of penetration in the white-collar workforce and Doximity has accomplished this in about three years,” said Jeff Spain, a general partner at Emergence Capital Partners who backed the company.
The CEO Jeff Tangney is a second-time founder whose previous medical software company Epocrates went for an IPO in 2011.
He founded Doximity a few years ago as a way to attack how doctors share medical data on their patients. Hand-offs between doctors are an eternal source of mistakes that can cost patients their lives.
“The current system is positively Medieval in terms of how we ask doctors to communicate,” he said. “I saw how much time was wasted with fax machines. There are 15 billion faxes a year sent in the U.S. healthcare system and it’s because there is no other legal way to send your lab report from one office to the other. It’s not HIPAA compliant.”
So they built Doximity as a social network for doctors where physicians could look up other colleagues or physicians. Tangney says the platform is speeding up the process with which doctors can find relevant specialists for patients. In one case this week, he said a doctor treating a patient with a tear in their retina was able to find an eye surgeon in the same day. That speed potentially saved the patient’s eyesight.
Doximity has a freemium model with two revenue streams at the moment. One is charging for sending patient files above a certain limit, and the other is for honoraria or consultations. For example, an analyst on Wall Street might want to reach out and ask a physician about a potential healthcare investment. They would pay the doctor and Doximity would earn a cut. The company is not yet cash-flow positive, however.
The service grew slowly at first, but they’ve started to pick up momentum with doctor-to-doctor referrals generating 80 percent of new users. It helps that there are only a few hundred medical schools in the entire country, so the industry is very tightly-networked to begin with. Each doctor on the network has about 25 different colleagues and the company has mapped about 10 million unique connections in the network.
“We’re winning based on network effects at this point,” Tangney said.
Doximity has to verify physicians to allow them into the network by checking their DEA number (which is a number assigned to medical professionals by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration), social security number or examining their medical license.
The company has raised about $27.8 million in total, with two rounds including investors like Emergence Capital Partners, InterWest Capital, and Morgenthaler Ventures. The last round valued the company at about $80 million.
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Engadget + gdgt Live is hitting Seattle next week!
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Guy Hacks Google Glass to Steer Drone
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Livewith.us Makes The Roommate Search More Social, Less Painful
Looking for someone to share your apartment on Craigslist can be a huge pain — so much so, in fact, that when my roommate moved out last year, I considered leaving the room empty. Thanks to some friend-of-friend connections, it all worked out in the end, but if it hadn’t, I probably I could’ve used a service like Livewith.us.
Perhaps the first thing to say about Livewith.us is that it’s not actually trying to compete with Craigslist. Instead, its creators expect users to continue posting and finding roommate listings on Craigslist. However, when the someone finds a listing that seems like a good fit, they can apply via Livewith.us. It’s there, in the latter part of the process — the part that’s largely conducted over email — that the site should be useful.
Both tenants (the people with an apartment who are looking for a room) and applicants have profiles on the site. They can use data imported from Facebook or they can be built from scratch. Basically, these profiles take the place of the copy-paste-bio-intro-email process and the awkward Facebook search that people might perform to learn more about future roommates. Livewith.us gives you the basic social context (including a list of mutual friends) that you’re looking for without showing you their drunk photos or whatever.
Plus, there’s no process of sending messages like, “Hey, we don’t know each other but can you friend me so I can see your profile?”
There are other workflow tools for both parties. For the applicants, there’s a dashboard where you can see the status of all your applications, and you can send follow-up messages if you want. For the tenants, a group of roommates can leave notes for each other on each application (the applicant can’t see those notes), and they can also sort applications into virtual piles of Yes, No, and Maybe. Once the applicants are sorted, tenants can send messages to every member of a group — for example, when someone has accepted a room, you can send a generic rejection to everyone else.
There are some nice touches in the Craigslist integration, too. Tenants can actually create the listing on Livewith.us, then publish it on Craigslist with a big “apply” button that will lead applicants back to Livewith.us. Applicants can also install the Livewith.us browser plug-in, which will allow them to apply for any listing on Craigslist with a link to their Livewith.us profile.
Zach Berke, CEO of Exygy (the company that created Livewith.us), said he’s hoping to create a “virtuous cycle” where tenants start using the service, which means applicants will start using it, too. Then they might convince other tenants to use it when they start their next apartment search.
Livewith.us is tackling a part of the housing process that’s been relatively neglected by startups. Berke said most other companies have a more pressing need to make money, so they’re going to try to get involved in the owner-tenant or broker-tenant relationship. Exygy, on the other hand, is an online services company, and it created Livewith.us as a side project. So if the project is useful and draws some attention to the company, then it’s a win.
That doesn’t mean Berke is totally opposed to making money. He described Livewith.us as the first of what will hopefully be a number of “self-incubated” projects that could eventually spin out if they do really well. There are areas where Livewith.us could charge a fee down the line, such as rental payments. And Berke also suggested that this approach could be brought to other categories, like applying for a job..
“We’re looking at building a With.us universe — we’ll start with Workwith.us and go from there,” he said.
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Balisa: un cortometraje sobre un futuro medianamente lejano
Álex Roca de Tentacle nos hizo llegar este cortometraje que rodaron el año pasado titulado Balisa. Tiene el mérito de ser una producción humilde, completada en tan solo 40 días y con un presupuesto de 50 euros; aunque el propio director dice que los efectos especiales no están muy trabajados por falta de tiempo yo creo que el resultado es más que digno – más que nada porque lo importante es el resto de la historia.
Balisa se llevó el premio Orson Welles a la mejor realización técnica y efectos en el festival Julius 2012. Si en algún momento recuerda a los episodios de La dimensión desconocida es porque como los propios autores dicen tiene un poco de inspiración en el clásico. Un recuerdo que ahí se queda porque el resto de la historia, como se puede comprobar con solo verla es te transporta a otra época.
Absolutamente recomendable y toda una muestra de cómo con poco se puede hacer mucho.
[El cortometraje está en catalán con opción de subtítulos en castellano, que se pueden activar desde el icono del menú la parte inferior en YouTube una vez comienza.]
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Google Nabs Glass Display Patents From Foxconn
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Facebook kills physical Gifts in favor of digital redemption codes
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EA COO Peter Moore: 'We don't ship a game at EA that is offline' (video)
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Bing intros robust product results for snappier impulse shopping
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Instagram chases better video editing with Luma acquisition
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30 lugares abandonados que igual merecería la pena visitar
Cabaña de pescadores en Alemania
30 abandoned places that look truly beautiful es una galería de fotos de treinta sitios que aun estando abandonados probablemente merecerían una visita.
Es cierto que en la galería en cuestión no hay demasiada información acerca de ellos, pero localizarlos y ver si y cómo se puede llegar a ellos –aunque algunos como la estación de tren abandonada en Detroit no sean destinos muy recomendables– es parte de la aventura.
Pero quizás de ella saques una idea para tus próximas vacaciones.
(@SrMalaussene vía un RT de @nuksazi).
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La computadora de las misiones Apolo
El AGC (Apollo Guidance Computer) era un primitivo ordenador que se utilizaba para guiar a las naves de las misiones Apolo en sus viajes hacia la Luna. Tenía tan solo 2 KB de memoria RAM (de 16 bits), funcionaba a 2 MHz y pesaba algo más de 30 kilos. Hoy en día podrías incluso construirte una réplica con un poco de paciencia y por supuesto cualquier teléfono móvil de hoy en día tiene infinitamente más potencia de cálculo.
En este vídeo de casi media hora puede verse esta auténtica joya de la ingeniería y la informática explicada por sus creadores, que cuentan cómo era su funcionamiento con todo detalle.
(Vía Kottke.)
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Cartridge Turns Your Old SLR Into a Digital Camera
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Legend of Zelda: the Wind Waker HD Wii U Deluxe bundle leaked, teases gold trim
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Drivewyze Raises $7.5M From Emergence, iNovia To Streamline Commercial Trucking
Drivewyze, which helps commercial trucking companies save time by bypassing weigh stations through a mobile app, just raised $7.5 million in a round led by Emergence Capital Partners and iNovia Capital.
They’ll use the capital for a sales and marketing expansion of their bypass service that should bring their offering nationwide by next year. It works through a mobile app that alerts a subscribing trucker when they are about two miles away from an inspection site. It’s currently available in 16 states, but the company is hoping to get to full national coverage in 2014.
The company is a spinout from Intelligent Imaging Systems, a Canadian road technology company that has been around for a decade. They launched Drivewyze as a standalone division last year and starting signing up truck fleets with good historical safety scores. They built a commercial mobile radio service that allows their platform to communicate with inspection sites.
When truckers are about one mile from a Drivewyze-enabled inspection site, the app will let the driver know whether to bypass it or report in for an inspection depending on what the local law enforcement agency says they should do.
Their business model is to charge $7.99 per month for a single state and $12.99 for a multi-state plan.
Emergence Capital, which is an enterprise-focused fund that has backed Salesforce, Yammer and Box, has been looking for software-as-a-service bets that cater to very specific verticals including transportation and health. They have about $575 million under management.
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Yahoo Acquires Image Recognition Startup IQ Engines
Oh, so you thought Yahoo’s acquisition spree was over? Not even close. A Yahoo spokesperson has confirmed that the revitalized web giant has snapped up yet another company — this time its a image recognition startup called IQ Engines.
Yahoo has declined to disclose the terms of the deal, but the IQ Engines team confirmed in a statement on their website that they have been tapped to join the Flickr team where they will be “working on improving photo organization and search for the community.
This a developing story, please refresh for updates.
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Alleged Motorola Droid 5 pics suggest the QWERTY slider still lives
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