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TEDxIITDelhi

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 11:44:00 +0000

I attended the TEDx event at IIT Delhi held on the 27th February.
For those of you, who are unaware of what TEDx is I am starting from the basics of it..

What is TEDx?
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self organised events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. Here x=independently organised TED event. At the event TEDTalks video and live speakers combined to spark a deep discussion and connection in the small group present.
This was the first time, TEDx had come to IIT-Delhi. It was organised with overlapping aims of spreading the culture of ideas, entrepreneurship and innovation amongst the budding entrepreneurs of today.
The theme of the event was "passion", which allowed all attendees to recognise their destinations, while identifying strong talents and ideas at the gathering.
The event featured the following business magnates and entrepreneurs from across the globe:-

1. Mr. Pradeep Gupta, Co-founder Cyber Media

Talk Theme: Indian Entrepreneurship

A first generation entrepreneur, along with his family members promoted Cyber Media in 1982. Mr. Pradeep Gupta is a B.Tech from IIT Delhi(1975) and PGDBM from IIM Calcutta(1977). CyberMedia is South Asia's largest speciality media house, with nine publications in the infotech, telecom, consumer electronics and biotech areas; and an end to end media value chain including the internet, events and television. He is also the past chairman of Pan-IIT Alumni India, a board member of TiE Delhi and the vice president of the Indian Association of Magazines. He also heads the technology committees of the Indian Newspapers Society. He was awarded the distinguished alumnus award by IIT Delhi in 2001.

2. Prof. Dinesh Mohan

Talk Theme: Life, Passion and Work

Prof. Dinesh Mohan, Professor, Transportation Research and injury Prevention Program, IIT Delhi has been an instrumental architect of the Bus Rapid Transit(BRT). In the past, he has worked in the Insurance Institute of Highway safety, Washington DC(1975-1978) and the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute(1971-1975). Professor Mohan has been a consultant on safety related matters to government departments in India, Nepal, Indonesia, Thailand, Bangladesh, Iraq and Libya. A distinguished alumnus from IIT Bombay and a member of WHO advisory panel, Dr. Mohan designed BRT systems in Delhi that provide a dedicated corridor for quicker bus movements coupled with bus priority signalling systems.

3. Mr. Aki Oyama

Title: Introduction to PR2 robots

Mr. Aki Oyama is the Director (Business Development-Asia Pacific) of Willow Garage. Willow Garage was founded by an initial architect of Google and the founder of eGroups, Scott Hassan, 3 years ago in Menlo Park, California. Willow Garage has found the basis of automation in homes and offices through the development of open source communities and common research platform PR2 robot. The PR2 robot is used by leading researchers at Stanford, UC Berkeley, MIT, UPenn, Georgia Tech, Technical University of Munich, Tokyo University and industrial companies such as Samsung, Bosch and Intel.

4. Mr. Kishore Chakraborti

Mr. Kishore Chakraborti is the vice president at McCann Erickson India. McCann Erickson is a global advertising agency network, where Kishore has been working since the last 25 years. He set up McCann operations in Nepal in the early 90's and turned it into a profit centre. He uses his skills of a language copywriter and strategic planner with responsibilities of a General Manager to explore and innovate new possibilities in consumer insight and brand planning. He edits the McCann insight quarterly and is a visiting faculty at a number of business schools.

5. Mr. Aseem Sadana

Mr. Aseem Sadana is the Co-founder of the London based inline travel company isango.He is currently the head of the company's Indian arm which is based in Delhi. Isango's other cofounder Ranjan Singh was named one of the "Future 500 Business leaders" of the UK. Aseem utilizes the process of production offshoring to provide it's customers with easy access to, what once were, hard to book products.

6. Mr. William Bissell

William Nanda Bissell, 43, is the Managing Director of Fabindia, a company committed to the retail of products made by craft and small producer groups throughout India. Fabindia operates 118 stores (as of June 2010) and has a significant stake in East Limited a UK retailer with 78 stores, 54 independent and 24 in prominent department stores, including John Lewis stores. Fabindia is a pioneer in the Community Owned Company movement having converted its entire supply chain of small artisan clusters into Community Owned Companies(COCs). These companies have 40,000 artisan shareholders and operate in the same regions as the artisan clusters providing them with design inputs, raw materials and access to last mile warehousing and distribution for their products. Bissel is the author of "Making India Work" published by Penguin that outlines a plan for rapid environmentally sustainable growth for India. He lives in New Delhi with his wife Anjali and their two children Sara and John.

Click Here to download voice recordings of all the speakers from the event-- Part1, Part2, Part3

Besides the above speakers, Mallika Sarabhai's video from the TED event at Mysore in November 2009 was also shown. In the video she tells a transformative story in dance -- and argues that the arts may be the most powerful way to effect change, whether political, social or personal.

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Sorry about the Dramatic Disappearence

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 19:02:00 +0000

No I haven't taken abode in a Cammie land, trying to find boarding passes to heaven.
I feel apologetic about the waning freequency of updates on my blog. In the past one month, I have observed a lack of commitment on my part to edit posts and publish them. I have had so many ideas, to write about but none of them have traversed the post-editting stage.

I wasn't too determined to write lengthy posts. Alhough, in the mean while followers on Facebook, Twitter and FeedBurner subscribers continued to grow, all thanks to my friends for the shout-outs from their accounts and the recommends, they made.
If you are wondering what I did with my time, I killed it at some or the other Social Networking platform and ended up being a young novice who got catapulated to social networking. I played an active role in creating twitter turbulence in people's lives(as is evident from my uber inflated tweet rate) and in turn got Facebook fatigued.

This morning I started googling to find a name for this no blog posting disorder. I had a strong belief that there has to be a name for this disorder, somewhere in the useless scientific terms dictionary. I couldn't find one. But here's an interesting thing I could:
The Internet and American Life Project at the Pew Research Center found that from 2006 to 2009, blogging among children ages 12 to 17 fell by half; now 14 percent of children those ages who use the Internet have blogs. Among 18-to-33-year-olds, the project said in a report last year, blogging dropped two percentage points in 2010 from two years earlier.

Here's a detailed report.

P.S: The url for the blog has changed to http://www.varunjaidka.co.cc/ . I have ensured that all subscriptions remain intact and no change has been made to the RSS feed address.

My DigiCam needs a boarding pass to heaven

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 20:45:00 +0000

What!! You just bought one of those 14.1 megapixel cammies down there..
Really??
That's incredibly absolutely not bad, atleast thats what the digi-cam or any other cam OEM's think. Well you'll not find a 'Thank you for buying' card coming your way, so better not expect it. De facto is that camera sales have declined, ever since the mobile phone was born, perhaps reborn as an all in one device.(ofcourse with a camera)

I certainly donot buy that thought, and that's because camera phones suck and still suck big time. Chiefly because none of them have Optical zoom. That's true for all the Berries, Iphones et al and all the other smartest of all devices as well.

But where it certainly scores is at being a swish set optical device that is online all the time, with a conglomerate of apps to PHOBAR your pics, to the extent that every pixel of the image screams out PHOTOSHOPPED. And then the very next instance you upload it to Facebook, share it on twitter or send it off as an email. Now that's convenience, in the real sense of the word. And it's certainly the need of the hour for the present generation with our umbillical chords tied to the internet.

Devour the fact that your new 14 point something shiny toy can't do it. Yes, I know there are some other wifi-enabled cammies as well. But setting them up is super clunky. Believe me while doing it, you'll feel like whooping your ass, if you've bought it or the executive's if you are out for a demo.

What the digital camera manufacturers need is to give the Digi Cam or whatever cam a new Avatar and make a device that's online all the time and makes the editing and uploading task an automated process, rather than it being an ordeal. I am talking of a utilitarian chic device that does it all with a press of a button. A device that marries them both together, a CAMOB may be.This needs to happen no later than RIGHT NOW..

This lands me into obfuscation about what is better a 12MP Camera phone or a 14 or 18 MP stand-alone camera. Stalemate.

Tech Clunkers of the year gone-by part 2

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 05:40:00 +0000

CARRYING ON from where I left yesterday, on the same clunky journey of dud devices and techs that didn't take up. So, here I am sticking to my guns and out with the second post of the year on the very second day...

* 3D:- The entire exhilaration that the concept created of driving the viewer to the new 3D wonderland died almost as soon as it came out. Or maybe the floodgates of expectations doomed all the euphoria. Nineteen 3D movies came out(You: How the hell did you pull up those numbers? Me: Click Here) and they kind of evolved and brought us acoss a 2010ish cinema or Cinema 2.0, as many call it. If you ask me, many of them were simply amazing, a piece of art I would say. But 3D at home is till date a No-No.. I am simply not being a luddite with this, but setting up and maintaining 3D is a pain. Wearing 3D glasses every time is an even bigger. THEY SUCK BIG TIME!! Then there are also warnings that 3D TV manufacturers themselves give about the exposure to certain radiations and stuff..
The only thing that's great about it is, you get a home TV thats aeons ahead of it's time.

* Digital photo frames are still struggling to survive. This time on a heavy dose of steroids.Till the last year it was only the touch- enabled mobile devices and media players that were head on with it but now they also have a superstar Tablet. This is kinda competition that is too hard to swallow for a wacko & disgusting device that it is. The tablet simply scores on portability when pitted against it. Truth be told, I feel the device will scythe its way through at least in the commercial sphere of it's utility but only for an year or two. And that I say considering the economics of reality, for a Tablet is dang expensive today.

* Skype Phones: Skype, found by Swedish entrepreneur Niklas Zennström and Dane Janus Frii in 2003 has been very successful. It's success is evident from the fact that 'Call me' has become 'Skype me'. And that's pretty much a global phenomenon, atleast for International Long Distance Calls. Skype in a way did exactly what google did to search.
What I think is a turkey in the entire Skype saga is the Skype Phone. After years of being there in the market place, the phone couldn't undertake the journey from the board room to the living room. And that's certainly disappointing if you take into account the fact that an epic proportion of Urban Indian households are well connected to the internet.
That isn't a hard nut to crack if you tie the knot between a cordless phone and a skype phone and most importantly make it available in India. Who wouldn't love free calls from a cordless device..
For all the Naysayer to that thought of mine, here I come. I accept the fact that a Skype app is available for the Iphone, Android and Symbian devices (except for the unlucky Blackberry boys, the league I am in) and it does even allow you to make calls.The defacto is that in the past couple of years(predominantly the post Iphone era), the mobile phone emerged as the mighty Device but only with a battery that failed to play it's divine part..
And this certainly reasserts the need for standalone devices as well.

* Ebooks: This is one reason that makes Ebook readers a toy only fit for fat-old bastards with a lot of extra moolah to spend. Well not exactly the ebook but ebook prices. Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Google, Kobo etc are the convicts here. These snobby avantgarde blokes are not allowing a flamboyant reading experince to take off. You guys suck for so bullish pricing of yours. I crown you with the title of the most opulent and full of grandeur advocates of super duper crap.
That's because if you compare the pricing of books vs. their digital renditions on the Amazon store, you'll see some e-books are more expensive than regular books and vice-versa in other cases. Next, if you compare the prices between the Kindle e-book store (where you're paying in US dollars) and Indian stores like the Wink Store or Infibeam, you'll find that most of the copies on the Kindle store are actually cheaper than the Indian stores. To make matters worse, the Wink Store doesn't have most of the books and the Infibeam store's pricing for some e-books is just outrageous despite them having a good collection.

Image and Comparison courtesy:www.techtree.com

Will the ebooks succeed? Surely it will. Let the frugality set-in..

Very gracious of you to have come this far. Thanks for being so generous with your time.

Tech Clunkers of the year gone-by

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 04:52:00 +0000

First to quash any rumors of me having died in a night of drunken revelry on the last day of the decade. I’m very much alive, thanks for your concern.
I’ve done a so-so job of keeping this blog up to date in 2010, so without making a new year’s resolution I do commit to my regular Pool of readers that I'll reverse the trend and finally Nail it just the way I promised at the outset.. Come what may I'll blog regularly.

The tech vendors and enthusiasts have witnessed both pride and infamy in the departing year. Having bid adieu to the year 2010 let’s have a look on major tech disappointments that I feel weren't supposed to be. These are those terrible gadgets that came and never conquered, they made hypes that were never fulfilled. Devices, technologies and ideas that didn't have it all in sync with the geeks or with the end consumer either. Then its also about companies that announced their products or services too premature and made a bad situation hilariously worse..

1) 3G tops the list. It's ironic how the introduction of 3G has been delayed in

India

even as the world is talking of 4G. Earlier 3G was stuck in spectrum allocation And now 3G is derailed for the umpteenth time because of security concerns over video calling!
But the last couple of months were however very promising. Atleast by the next decade India will have a top notch, cutting-edge, smooth as silk, spectacularly advanced telecom system. Thankfully this(will be) due to a refreshing lack of A Raja in the telecom ministry. God alone knows who's gonna be the next Monk without a Ferrari who'll finally ensure a 30 min. or free 3G experience even on our now 30 month old data starved phones..

Source: www.watblog.com

2) Number portability :Oct 31 Nov 25, and Dec 31- these were the dates on which Number portability was supposed to take off in India. After much talk, now only Haryana has this service and that too with a few telecom operators. The rest of the country will have to wait till April, 2011 to switch service providers without losing their current nos.. Although I don't really think that it's gonna help all consumers (well it may, in some cases) but I really think it'll not give our Service providers the chance to fuck the pockets of the so-called 'very valuable customers', coz of the large clutter of those 11 odd(i guess) in business. Who knows if this one technology brings a new Renaissance in our mobile experience.
Well for the time being we just have one thing to look at

3) McAfee: McAfee’s software solutions are installed to protect your PC or laptops from virtual threats. But ironically, the most famous Anti-Virus caused hundreds of thousands of computers to crash. After installing the update, users found their PCs in ongoing reboot cycles with no end in sight.
This makes McAfee a dis-fucking-gusting thing to buy for a 1200 bucks.

4)Tablets that didn't seamlessly blend creativity with efficiency:

www.notionink.com

First on the list is the Notion Ink's Adam. An Indian venture which actually defined the 'real tablet' around the world. The device had everything you could ever imagine- a transflective display, a swivel camera, an HDMI out port, wifi, Bluetooth, 3G, sd, usb and mini-usb connectivity options and above all adobe flash support. There isn't a single thing that was missing.........except the DEVICE ITSELF.
Coz it never came out. Announced in early 2010, they started pre-booking in end- December and have already sold out(in 2010 itself).

Next is the Made in India, for India and by India(ns) tablet to revolutionize education, as announced by Kapil Sibal. But it was too shy to make a public appearence!! Well I just hope the tablet is in the hands of school going children atleast by the time his term as an Education minister ends.

Now the only good piece of tablet available in the Indian market and yet a DUD- The Samsung Galaxy Tab. It was very exciting and everything about the device felt good(including the advertisement with a man in boxers working in the office..oops taking a call on the galaxy tab) but hands on experience of the device at a Croma outlet really spoilt it all, atleast for me. Did it suck? Damn straight it did.

The Tab has a huge screen and yet not a single app has been made specifically for it. And almost all the apps are pixelated and don't fit the screen. Watching videos is a pain in the ass. Very little content on the device actually matches the resolution of the screen. Even the wallpapers were from Samsung's other android mobile devices. Everything was fussy.

Well the device is good in terms of the hardware and the fact that you get a chance to use a tsunami of apps available in the Android Market place, but it will eventually be lost in the sea of mediocre devices out there in the market.

Next up the Ipad
Psst.. Apple fanboys and Steve Jobs worshipers don't flame me for this being on my list. The Ipad is truly and incredibly the best tablet. It certainly did rock and is the best device in the segment it created.
It's on my list coz even after months passing-by and promises galore they still haven't launched it in India. This is when the world is actually preparing for the next Camera toting Ipad 2.
We still have to depend on our Uncles or Aunts in the States or the UK to get one or pay a moolah for it in the grey market.

To be Contd...

A happy New Year to the world!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 07:45:00 +0000

Wishing you all a prosperous and successful New Year ahead! I hope you enjoy your New Years Eve in style. As always, thank you for following tecHeal!

A Happy New Year to each and every one of you!

Truly,
Varun

Happy Christmahannukwanzadan everybody

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 13:13:00 +0000

At the outset I want to wish you all a Happy (Merry) Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanza, and Ramadan and let you know how grateful I am that you're all still with me on this crazy journey called life.

I have been off blogger for a very long time, not that I did not want to write and also not that I have been lazy, but somehow it has been slipping lower and lower in my priority list with so many things struggling to find place in my To-Do list. And all this has given me a sense of being unplugged.
Well I'll continue on this line of thought at some other instance, leaving you with the spirit of Christmas for now.

Here's a letter that I wish to share with you. It's from the Indian Prime Minister to Mr. Claus.

Now without haranguing you with some more words I sign off wishing you once again a very Merry Christmas and a Very Happy New Year.

Hope you have a lot of fun in 2011!

Thanks for Patronizing tecHeal

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 02:02:00 +0000

I am delighted to have a 100 subscribers/followers (via facebook, twitter and Email subscriptions) in just a fortnight.

Although I am still waiting for a bunch of subscribers lying in wait to pounce on me with their comments in both venom and vigour, as soon as a post gets published/delivered, I'm so excited about this little milestone! Moreover the time frame makes it almost unbelievable for me.. Thanks for your support. Please keep pouring in just the way you have been.

Please reply to this post if you have got this as an email or write in the comments box about what changes you wish to see in the blog.

Thanks

The Healthcare Industry as I see it ten years down the line

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 19:35:00 +0000

After procrastinating for three days I am glad to finally write this blogpost. The title of the blogpost makes my intentions very clear. I hope you are not left even with an iota of doubt. My aim is to basically make being diseased a pleasant experience(Err... Really? Yup kind of).

I wish to propose a 2020 that brings the Patient, Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists, Pathologists, Medical Insurance Companies and Fitness trainers together by means of a common web based interface which facilitates the creation of a dedicated Professional and a consumer web (along the lines of Facebook, but consumers would'nt interact amongst each other although Professionals would), where everyone(mentioned above) has an account and an interface of their own. The Patient would have a choice in such an interface to add medical Practitioners, Pharmacists, Pathologists and Medical Insurance companies of his/her choice.
Such a thing does'nt really exist as of now, but once it gets created it will eliminate some of the greatest challenges of the Healthcare Industry, in both the developed as well as the developing world (I wish India becomes a part of the former, by then.) Most importantly, I am sure that our present Bizarro world will give way for a paperless digitalised world by then, where all documents are digitalised. So, its gonna be like wrapping all your documents with a layer of technology. What makes me feel that is the Tablet war between the Apple Ipad, BlackBerry Playbook and other array of Windows and Android powered devices.

1) Doctors: It goes without saying, doctors wouldn't have to generate hand written prescriptions, the web interface would make soft copies for that and the doctors will have prescription-less clinics.
Instead of the Pharmacy retail outlets generating Prescription numbers the dedicated Web Interface (part of the Professional web) at a Doctor's clinic would do that and intimate the Pharmacist(as selected by the patient in his/her consumer web-interface) about it.
When a patient should require certain diagnosis to be done it'll be intimated to the Pathologist(as selected by the patient in his/her web-interface) directly through the Professional web interface, who would do that and send it across to the doctor and patient simultaneously.

2) Medical Insurance Companies: Medical insurance claims will get dispersed by a mouse-click as the insurance companies will have real-time access to patient's present condition, Diagnosis Reports etc. through their dedicated web interface (a consolidated Consumer and Social web).

3) Pharmacists:- With the Doctor already having generated the Prescription number, the Pharmacist would know which Patient is expected. So, it'll allow the pharmacist to get the medicines dispensed in advance and the patient would not have to wait on his/her arrival at the Pharmacy Retail outlet. The Pharmacy will also know when the patient should require a refill, because of the presence of the prescription number already in their database, so they can get it delivered or ask the customer to pick up as per his/her convenience. This can also probably lead to the concept of Drive-thru Pharmacies (just like drive-thru restaurants) for collecting refill medication supplies. The Pharmacists can also deploy various targetted videos, podcasts etc. to counsel patients with similar diseases.
It'll also check the use of prescription drugs and help curb the menace of self-prescription in the developing world, especially India.

4) Pathologists: When the doctor would request a diagnosis, the pathologists would just have to put their machines to work and the results generated by the machine would be conveyed to the common Web interface, which would then be converted to a human readable format and would add comments on the basis of certain pre-set parameters, thereby optimising it for the Professional and the Consumer web. The results can thus be instantly conveyed to the Doctor and the Patient.

5) Patients: Imagine a world where a child gets born and gets registered for an account on the Consumer Web on the basis of the parent's credentials and the interface finally delivers the child his/her birth certificate.The interface further maintains a record about the child's vaccination schedule and sends reminders to the concerned Doctor and Parents on a regular basis via email and/or SMS.
By having all his/her health and medication information in his account, it should get a lot easier for a patient to change his/her Physician or even take a second opinion in case of a chronic or serious ailment. For the patient its going to be more secure to have that all stored in one place on the web so as to get access to it whenever needed. The Patients can also get answers to their specific questions from the doctor in a whole lot convenient way.
The patient should get regular reminders from the Web interface to consume medicines in accordance with the prescribed schedule via SMS/email.
When such a web-interface gets accessible through smartphones, tablets and other gadgets the patient will feel more empowered as he/she will have access to his/her medical information at the click of a button.

6) Pharma Companies: Such an interface can allow Pharma Companies' Social Media initiatives to be better targetted to only their customers or Potential Customers. Companies will also be able to interact with their consumers and suggest better ways to optimise the use of certain products in association with Professional Pharmacists.

7) Fitness Professionals: With the optimisation of the web interface for smartphones and further creation of applications that go beyond the Nike+Ipod capabilities that exist in today's world, users will be able to keep track of their workout regimes in a better way and set out new targets. This will lead to better reporting of the data in real time to the fitness trainers as well.

8) Advertising World: Such a thing would bring out great targeted advertising opportunities in the Healthcare space. Patients, Doctors, Pharmacists, Pathologists, Fitness Professionals and Pharma companies can be served with ads meant specifically for them. This would enhance the ad agency's reach and would ensure a faster ROI for the advertiser, thereby transforming brands and businesses alike.

All this is crucial because it'll make Healthcare delivery, PATIENT CENTRIC. The service providers in the healthcare sector will not only be able to satisfy their customer's standards but will also initiate setting their own standards in developing new products and services and as a result breed happy customers.

P.S: This may well seem to be the screenplay of a sci-fi movie to you today, but it'll definitely be a reality, probably ten years down the line.
I am sure this can be incorporated into IBM's smarter planet campaign today. Whenever it happens and whichever company does it, do remember you read it in the year 2010 on tecHeal.

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Healthcare got simpler : Google health got better

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 18:21:00 +0000

Google launched Google Health in May of 2008 with the aim to organise, monitor and track Health and/or Wellness information much more easily. It did succeed and that to in a big way.

A Google Health account, allows to store, manage and share all of your health and wellness information in one central place. It did get acceptance in the West from patients and doctors alike as both of them got relieved from the clutter of prescriptions.

For those of you who are unaware about Google Health, Click Here for a brief round up.

Google Health has recently come up with the following new features:-

1) Option to store Advanced Directives

This allows you to specify what kind of care you want to receive when you are sick, injured, caught in an emergency health condition or at the end of your life by just filling an advance directive form, to Healthcare Professionals/those who will act on your behalf. The information gets stored in your Health Profile. It's just a five step process- Download the form, Fill it , Scan it , Upload it and now you are ready to share it with your loved ones and caregivers.

2) Google Health and Medicare PHR Choice registration
This integration with Medicare is a one year regional pilot. If you are a Medicare Fee-for-Service beneficiary living in Utah or Arizona, you can create a free Google Health Account and get the last 24 months of your Medicare claims information sent to it. You'll then get automatic updates whenever something changes.

Although a lot has been done to improve Google Health since its introduction back in 2008, I strongly feel that there is a lacuna which still exists to revolutionise Healthcare delivery.

In my next post I will be highlighting certain steps that should be taken by companies in this space to revolutionise the Healthcare sector and make the patient feel convenient.

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Good Luck G for RadiumOne

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 16:57:00 +0000

Advertising just got SMARTER.. Thanks to RadiumOne..

Gurbaksh Chahal, the Indian American self made entrepreneur has announced the launch of his another venture (precisely his fourth including ClickAgents, BlueLithium and gWallet) RadiumOne, a next generation ad network focused on overlaying social and intent data together.
The social data they'll be looking at (organising) will help them not only understand individual users but also lead them to like-minded groups and communities. This will allow the building up of huge audiences for advertisers by creating lookalike users on the basis of their activities online.(this includes the social networking platforms, the blogosphere, status updates, social sharing applications and widgets, web usage, URL shorteners, photo sharing websites and the gWallet network) So behavourial targetting is the core of the idea and this is a very futuristic approach in todays era of search advertising dominated web. They can easily get the buck from the advertisers pocket by eliminating ad investment wastage and simultaneously delivering measurable results.

He says and I quote "The next evolution in advertising won’t be about customers just showing intent; it will be about finding new audiences that look like your existing customer."

You can find the official press release here, and know more about RadiumOne here

Good luck G! Your book and your blog posts are great guiding lights and there are many anecdotes you refer to, that have inspired me and helped me grow!

P.S: I wish to share a few videos from the secret Millionaire that I came across the other day, not really related to G's new venture but it surely is a must watch and brings out the philanthropist in him.

[Source: www.chahal.com]

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A Perfect10 - Ubuntu 10.10

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 18:30:00 +0000

I just upgraded the Ubuntu 10.04 netbook installed on my laptop to the all new Ubuntu 10.10. The post transition user experience is absolutely amazing.
Its a 2010ish Os which is very intuitive and looks and feels much better than it's predecessor. Thanks to Unity for all this.(this is what Ubuntu calls the new interface)

Other new additions:-

1) Support for Iphone and Android: There has been a drastic improvement here. Although I did'nt try for an android device but syncing an Iphone got a whole lot better. In a nutshell I did'nt have to log on to YouTube to figure it out.
However, it would have been appreciated if the Os would have been made much more BlackBerry(handheld) friendly.

2) Music streaming to your phone: Ubuntu's music player now also includes an integrated store, which allows you to buy and download new tracks and
Ubuntu One's file-sync allows you to even stream music to your Android device or iPhone. Even here its a thumbs down for BlackBerry handhelds.

3) Me Menu: This is the revamped version of the social networking application that lets you access your Facebook and Twitter accounts straight from the desktop. You can connect to all your favourite chat channels and make updates through a single window.

4) What was the best thing about it, was that all of the drivers (atleast for my lappy) were included in the package. I did'nt have to find the drivers on the internet.

5) Workspaces: The much awaited Workspaces applet is finally available with the netbook version as well. Its been there in the desktop version ever since Ubuntu 7.04 was out. Workspaces are like virtual screens, which you can switch between at any time. Every workspace contains the same desktop, the same panels, and the same menus. However, the best part of it is that you can run different applications, and open different windows in each workspace. The applications in each workspace will remain there when you switch to other workspaces.

The installation took about 15 minutes and once it was completed, it was Rock-a-doodle-do..

P.S: It looks great as of now. Will keep updating here about other new features and glitches, if I come across any.

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My first Blog Post

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 16:13:00 +0000

Howdy to all! This is the first blog post I've ever written (as you can see in the title section) and I am kind of excited about it. This is an important moment for me! It’s something I’ve wanted to do for a long time, but wasn’t sure how to do it, where, when, or even if. And finally, now here I am.I think that having a place to vent and babble is a very positive thing, so thanks for watching and I'll keep updating in a quasi-timely manner. It’s going to be fun sharing my thoughts with you. So here goes….