Tales from Startup Alley: MyMD
It looks like we’re in a mini-boomlet for webified patient information apps. Doctors can’t ignore the fact that their customers would prefer to communicate by …
Tales from Startup Alley: AirSig
AirSig gave one of my favoritest demos of the past several TechCrunch Disrupts. I met with the team behind this Taiwanese startup on Monday to …
Mana Health: Analog Health Records Turned into Digital Dashboards
For years we’ve been hearing about the promise of electronic health records. I for one look forward to the day when I don’t have to …
Brief note on Nuvenote: French Medical Records Startup
I couldn’t resist an email with the subject line of “Nuvenote, the promising French eHealth startup is skyrocketing in India.” Curious, I took a brief …
BIME: Big Data Analysis at Your Fingertips
One of the more interesting apps I came across last month during Gigaom Structure 2014 is called BIME. Imported from France, BIME is the work …
FTC Takes Big Data Privacy Seriously
I’m still trying to catch up from last week’s Gigaom Structure conference, where I spent two days listening to the Big Data industrial complex yak …
Advertisements for Myself: My Phishing and Data Breach eBook
I wrote an incredibly readable eBook on the most important challenge facing humankind IT. Give me ten minutes of your time, and by the end of “Anatomy of a Phish” you’ll have a complete grasp
UberConference Meets Google Hangouts
San Francisco-based UberConference is the audio bridge service that lets you know who is talking. Amazing, right? It was started by the same folks who …
Artisan: A/B Testing for Business Types
I saw Philly-based Artisan at TechCrunch Disrupt last year, and remember their easy approach to A/B testing for mobile apps. Since then at my day …
Investigative Data Parsing Courtesy of Hacks/Hackers
I haven’t been to a Hacks/Hackers event in a good long time. The sessions are ostensibly geared towards journalists and investigative reporters–of which I’m neither–but …
Favorites from Legal Hacker’s Hackathon
The folks over at the Hacker League have collected all the projects from the multi-city Legal Hackathon from two weekends ago. My view of these …
Uwatela: Dolf Veenvliet’s Abstract Art Construction Kit
Remember Entoforms? Back in 2011, I wrote about Dutch artist and maker Dolf Veenvliet’s 3-D plastic lifeforms, which looked like something that might have been …
What I missed at the Legal Hackers’ Hackathon
I’ve been busy with other projects so I was unable to make the New York Legal Hackers second annual hackathon this past weekend in Brooklyn. …
Bruce Schneier at CUNY Crypto Conference: “We’ve made bulk collection too easy”
Like everyone else following the news about the Snowden papers, I’m aware of the basic facts. Bulk collection of phone metadata, and taps on Yahoo …
TV Retransmission and Copyright Finally Make the Front Page
Back when I was spending more time writing about FCC regulatory issues, I came across a sleepy backwater known as television signal retransmission. Actually, there’s …
2013: Privacy Makes a Comeback
My last post of the year, more or less, is a short toast to Privacy. I raise my glass to wish Privacy better health in …
SF-Based SixDoors Has a Localism Manifesto
I’m not sure what to make of a startup that has its own manifesto. But in San Francisco, which online shopping service SixDoors calls home, …
Metadata Inferencing Meme Goes Mainstream
Knock me down with a feather. As a techy blogging bystander, I’ve been watching as the non-technical media world figures out the implications of the …
KPass gets off the ground
Last week, I had a chance to chat briefly with Dan Nelson, whom I met at Hatch Match 2013 while he was in mid-pitch for …
Meddle Lowers the Bar for Corporate Content
According to the sages at Business Insider, social media doesn’t have a traditional ROI metric. This should surprise absolutely nobody. This doesn’t mean you shouldn’t …