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Re: Resume Driven Development (RDD)

Dmitriy Kruglyak — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 06:49:34 -0000

I think the most important thing is for development managers and senior execs to recognize the issue and make the decisions accordingly.

Recognition of "RDD bias" should be only one of the factors in the choice of technology, but of course not the only one.

Re: Resume Driven Development (RDD)

Dmitriy Kruglyak — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 14:52:40 -0000

You hit the bullseye, Shahid!

I love the acronym.

Re: HIMMS interested in bloggers, blogging, and social networking

Dmitriy Kruglyak — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 01:47:23 -0000

Let's be sure we get the key HIMSS folks attend our innaugural Healthcare Blogging Summit 2006

This should be just the place to give them a good overview of what they need to be thinking about, leaving enough time to prepare for HIMSS 2007.

Aside from this, I think HIMSS needs to treat bloggers as fully accredited press.

Re: Ken Kizer, CEO of Medsphere and former top VA official, pitches open source medical software to Congress

Dmitriy Kruglyak — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 23:31:22 -0000

I think lack of licensing fees is only one of the benefits of open source.

A far more important point is collaborative software development, through the power of community. When it works, this means greater software quality and never needing another source code escrow clause. Plus things like sharing of best practice processes, templates, etc.etc.etc. Things that are taken for granted in Linux-land but are barely known in health IT. How many times different IT departments end up doing the same HL7 interface over and over again?

The real viability of open source health IT will be tested by whether a viable development community with real spirit of collaboration can emerge.

Re: Medical Blog Network vs. Lynch Mob

Dmitriy Kruglyak — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 17:21:24 -0000

Sure, this is not the last case and there is always argument about applicability of any precedent.

Words like "temporary" and "excerpts" mean nothing. We all know that Google caches everything in full forever, but looks like they successfully argued that dropping a few little pieces of a page creates "excerpts". I can as well say that even the "full" posts are excerpts too, since they do not include the entire blog site scaffolding.

USENET postings and RSS feeds have more in common than you think. Both are published by the author with explicit intent for distribution.

But this is the matter from purely legalistic perspective. I do not find it worth a fight.

Re: Medical Blog Network vs. Lynch Mob

Dmitriy Kruglyak — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 20:48:39 -0000

Carsten,

You can argue legal points all you want. The problem is there is not enough specificity under the current law, so it is pretty much useless.

What everybody needs is a fresh look at the whole policy landscape for "mashosphere", as described in the WebMoney article I referenced above.

TMBN has always been explicit that our goal is not only to be a traffic hub for members' sites but build community at (www.healthvoices.com).

So yes, we are more than a "dumb" aggregator. We are building a feature-rich intelligent community site.

Re: Medical Blog Network vs. Lynch Mob

Dmitriy Kruglyak — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 20:39:09 -0000

I find it ironic that the legal precedent to vindicate my original position arrives just in time:

Google wins a court battle

Re: Medical Blog Network vs. Lynch Mob

Dmitriy Kruglyak — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 00:30:21 -0000

To respond to Carsten's points on comments and permalinks:

1) Quoting for the purpose of commenting is a well-established example of fair use of copyrighted materials.

2) We include both links to every item on our site (Permalinks) and the links back to original post (Sourcelinks). Both are listed clearly.

3) Every post is clearly attributed with the name of the original author. We are not mis-representing authorship to anyone who can read.

These points become moot for bloggers who publish only teasers in RSS feeds - which generate traffic to their sites. You have full control over your feeds.

Get ready for the wave of innovation that will be hard to grasp at first:
http://www.webmonkey.com/06/10/index1a.html

Re: Medical Blog Network vs. Lynch Mob

Dmitriy Kruglyak — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 19:28:45 -0000

I am happy to close this issue, as long as in the end I am not being accused of being a thief, plagiarist, criminal, guilty of misdeeds, cause of world hunger, etc. etc. etc. This is unfair.

We should all still agree that it would not hurt to post clearer feed usage guidelines. And this is not the first time unanticipated use of technology (not just by TMBN) has brought and will bring a valid policy debate. Oh and by the way, our policy change was made before this controversy, but I was hoping to complete software update first.

I recommend that you all think carefully about how you publish feeds. TMBN is commited to operating publically and building an open community. But you might be surprised how easy it is for anonymous pirate to set up an operation that would not even respond to your inquiries.

Thanks to all for being reasonable in the end.

Re: Fingerprint payment has arrived — continued

Dmitriy Kruglyak — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 08:46:11 -0000

I cannot help but marvel at what these guys have done. Raised a ton of money on vaporware and used it to buy companies with real businesses.

Re: Fingerprint payment has arrived — continued

Dmitriy Kruglyak — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 13:12:03 -0000

Exactly. The best thing is once a fingerprint is stolen it cannot be replaced! DoD calls it "logical amputation". Enjoy!

Re: Louie, fresh from CIA, joins with Alsop in new fund

Dmitriy Kruglyak — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 19:23:42 -0000

Matt,

I think you should profile Bessemer's Anti-Portfolio. It is a really refreshing bit of honesty and humor. Every VC should post one to earn credibility :-)
http://www.bvp.com/port/anti.asp

Re: High flier Metreo hits wall?

Dmitriy Kruglyak — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 07:41:40 -0000

As someone familiar with the company from its early days, I am not surprised. Hype was way ahead of reality over there...

Re: Doing deals in Om’s loo

Dmitriy Kruglyak — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 10:17:20 -0000

Too much sensationalism. Scott did not DO THE DEAL in the bathroom, he just got a phone call.

Re: Finally, a healthcare search engine that works

Dmitriy Kruglyak — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 09:26:54 -0000

The problem with HealthLine, WebMD, Google and their ilk is that they simply serve up what amounts to a "medical encyclopedia".

That's good and accurate, but not really helpful to regular people, who need more live, interactive and down-to-earth explainations of their health choices.

Watch us deliver just that (www.healthvoices.com)

Dmitriy Kruglyak

Re: If this is true about Westly, public should be outraged

Dmitriy Kruglyak — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 17:25:25 -0000

Hmmm... A recent SiliconBeat post said that Silicon Valley needs to get better at lobbying.

A little suggestion. To do better job in public advocacy arena we should refrain from tearing down our own candidates for no good reason. There is no evidence of wrongdoing whatsoever, only hearsay and hypotheticals.

Angelides is desperate to find anything to sling at Westly, doing a very poor job of it and has to settle for these little tidbits. After years as real estate developer and party boss he better look in the mirror.

Westly deserves our support, as the candidate best suited to stimulate the Innovation Economy.

Re: If this is true about Westly, public should be outraged

Dmitriy Kruglyak — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 19:01:34 -0000

Here is the story about Angelides we should be focusing on. Offloading his interest in a bank that was handing out money to his real estate friends and then went poof:

"In a 1993 interview with the San Jose Business Journal, two bank officials attributed losses of more than $1.6 million in 1991 and '92 to what the article described as "unwieldy lending practices, much of which was tied to real estate."

http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/story/14241054p-15060652c.html

Re: Webaroo unveiled — lets you carry cached Internet on your PC/smartphone

Dmitriy Kruglyak — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 20:13:25 -0000

This exposes the real story behind so many "stealth" companies, founded by has-beens:

"We have nothing to show and no proof that our ideas will work. So we will pretend we know something you do not. We will act smug about it and try to impress you with past [irrelevant] accomplishments"

No wonder why bubbles happen.

Re: Webaroo unveiled — lets you carry cached Internet on your PC/smartphone

Dmitriy Kruglyak — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 14:51:59 -0000

Hold off calling these guys lucky, Yuri.

If your plan is stupid, raising VC money would not help you with a successful exit. Only would raise the hurdle for taking home any money at all.

Would love to see what the reputations of these guys would be once they are done with Webaroo.

Remember AllAdvantage.com? Pets.com? WebVan? Deals like that come back to bite you.

Re: The Web 2.0 List — and news about Healthia, YackPack and Grouper’s good fight

Dmitriy Kruglyak — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 14:53:47 -0000

Too bad for Healthia that they do not have anyone with real healthcare experience onboard.

Lack of traffic shows that the dogs are not eating the dog food.

Re: Sequoia Capital to Yale: “Invest or else”

Dmitriy Kruglyak — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:25:41 -0000

My money is on Sequoia... Yale or not Yale, they are known as A-holes who deliver. They have the upper hand with LPs.

Re: PurpleYogi, the 1999 personalization company, finally hits pay dirt

Dmitriy Kruglyak — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:39:31 -0000

"At one point, the company had to reset its value to zero"

How can you call this a success for the initial founders? Did they get wiped out completely? This is more than anything a cautionary tale than a success.

Re: PurpleYogi, the 1999 personalization company, finally hits pay dirt

Dmitriy Kruglyak — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 18:51:45 -0000

This silence speaks for itself.

If anything this is a story about taking a flagging company, flushing the founders and using the assets with new money to create something entirely different.

Re: OpenSocial is half-baked and Google execs don’t seem to care

Dmitriy Kruglyak — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 01:25:50 -0000

Lee is biased but this does not mean he is wrong. OpenSocial is half-baked because myriad of details FB developers take for granted are up in the air. In many cases these design decisions will be made in proprietary extensions and containter TOSes.

This does not mean Google / MySpace will not get it right, but it is a long hard road.

Re: Foreign investors leave Russia after bizarre interview — may return

Dmitriy Kruglyak — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 13:32:09 -0000

I think polonium is the recent tool of choice.

Re: GMail updates: A sneaky, creepy new year from Google?

Dmitriy Kruglyak — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 12:51:38 -0000

Yet another example of Google caring more about beating a competitor than delivering something useful to real people.

One more thing they better do - global opt-out of having ANY of my data on their servers.

Re: iMedix combines health search and community — but does neither well

Dmitriy Kruglyak — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 22:40:42 -0000

If there is any consumer Internet segment that reminds of dot-com bubble it is "Health 2.0". Business model eludes these new sites. Few if any can even get any significant number of users. Only a handful are founded by people with any healthcare experience whatsoever.

Most of these companies are quite transparent that they only care about profiting from health. Yet they fail to do even that.

Re: Social Apps Should Get You Laid

Dmitriy Kruglyak — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:31:35 -0000

Nick,

I think Facebook's entertainment slant comes from its origins and is self-reinforcing. Take a look at the chapter I submitted for the upcoming "Psychology of Facebook" book. IMHO, it addresses the questions you ask.
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dctjh9vw_1hs29mrgb

Plus, here is the site for the book, that is coming out of the sequel to the famous Stanford Facebook class:
http://www.psychologyoffacebook.com

Would love to hear you thoughts on the role of context.

Re: 2007/04/19/petition-against-alexas-statsaholic-lawsuit/

Dmitriy Kruglyak — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 03:50:18 -0000

Amazon, hands off Statsaholic!