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diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2006/11.06.06/Thu/daily strength.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2006/11.06.06/Thu/daily strength.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b177a1a --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2006/11.06.06/Thu/daily strength.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Earlier this week Doug Hirch (of Yahoo fame) and few others [launched a new social networking site named DailyStrength][1]. Normally I wouldn't consider that too remarkable given the rapid proliferation of such sites, but DailyStrength actually has a purpose, something most social networking sites lack.
Daily Strength is centered around health "wellness support," and aims to build a network for people who are, in the site's words "going through challenges." Some people might sneers at such semantics, but I expect it will be appreciated by those who don't like experiences like paralysis being referred to as a disease.
In addition to those directly affected, DailyStrength also has communities for caretakers, family and friends.
Daily Strength uses the term communities to describe groups that form around various health issues. But the site isn't limited to physical health alone, there are groups on parenting, mental health and addiction, relationships, sexuality and more.
Every user gets a "wellness journal" for sharing with the community, as well as a standard profile page. One of the great things about DailyStrength is that each member in a group lists what medical and psychological treatments they have undergone and whether or not those were effective.
Assuming the pharma companies don't start paying bloggers to write fake positive experiences, this could be a good way to get some advice if your doctor has recommended a treatment you know nothing about.
DailyStrength does a nice job of tracking numbers within communities. For each community there is front page bulletin that lists the top ten treatments for that ailment. Click on any of the links then take you to a list of members and how that treatment worked for them.
Each community also has news feeds that pull in headlines relative to the groups focus,
As with any online medical community, you'll have to decide what advice to follow and what is nonsense and it's certainly not an alternative to seeing a doctor. That said, DailyStrength does list a number of doctors as "community advisors" whom it claims are active in their relative areas of expertise.
With so many social networking sites that end up as little more than vanity mouthpieces, it's nice to see one that has a real purpose.
[1]: http://www.dailystrength.org/ "DailyStrength"
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The concept is pretty simple, given two photographs, which do you like better? The site then attempts to calculate what your choices say about you. Whenever the site thinks it knows something about you the brain turns pink and if you click on it the brain will tell what it knows about you.
The extrapolations based on your answers are bit far fetched, and yet can be creepily accurate. For instance, based on my choices of only five sets of photos Likebetter guessed that I lived in an apartment or condo, which is true. I went back through the photos and tried to figure out what might be the reasoning behind that, but I came away empty.
It is just a game though, and it's wildly inaccurate as often as it is correct (not only do I not watch a lot of television I don't even own one).
Some of the picture combinations are bizarre, like the one below, and it's tough to say what that choice might say about you.
As with anything remotely like a personality test I tried to game Likebetter to see if I could control what it thought about me, but for the most part Likebetter's image are too random for that. Really, what does it say about you if you choose a fat Elvis impersonator over Adam Sandler?
LikeBetter is hardly earth shattering, but it's a silly and fun way to waste a bit of the company time.
[1]: http://www.likebetter.com/ "What do you Likebetter?"
[2]: http://www.morehotter.com/ "Morehotter"
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For those that don't know, portable applications are packaged so you can carry them on a USB thumb drive, iPod, memory card, or any other portable memory storage device. They're compiled in such a way that your preferences are read and written to the portable drive so you can have your settings and preferences available on any machine.
The ubiquitous presence of USB stick drives has seen an growing demand for portable apps. There's several repositories of portable Windows application out there, but this is the first I've seen that is Mac specific. I suppose you could argue that there aren't as many Macs out there to plug your USB stick into which might make these less useful, but I'm sure Mac users will appreciate the possibility.
It's small point, but I'm curious why a group calling itself the Free OpenSource Software Mac User Group lists Safari and other Apple software that isn't open source.
[1]: http://www.freesmug.org/portableapps/ "Portable Mac Apps"
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>Under the deal, Universal, the world's largest music corporation, will receive a percentage of both download revenue and digital player sales when the Zune and its related service are introduced next week.
Ever since I mentioned it in the morning reboot, I've be trying work exactly why Microsoft would cut Universal Music in on the deal. [Several analysts have suggested][3] that this [has the makings of a new business model][4] -- hardware manufacturers cut content producers in on the profits of device sales.
The logic is that since online music sales aren't picking up with near the pace at which retail CD sales are declining, kindly hardware manufacturers can cut them in on some profits.
That would make sense if Microsoft were a charity organization, but obviously it's not. But Google has reportedly reached similar set of agreements with various entertainment companies regarding YouTube, so maybe this idea is gaining some traction.
Canada tried to institute an "iPod tax" for a while in an attempt to compensate the music industry for what it perceives as lost revenue through file sharing. The law was later struck down by Canadian courts.
Apple's tactic so far has been to compensate the music companies through sales on the iTunes Music Store. But online music sales aren't exactly raking in the money. According to an unnamed study quoted by the Times: "Apple has sold an average of 20 songs per iPod."
Naturally music industry claims the decline in sales is directly attributable to file sharing. To a certain extent they're probably right. But presupposing that your entire consumer base is criminal, which is what something like the Canadian tax does, seems a bit extreme.
Perhaps this wouldn't be a bad model for the music industry to adopt. I for one would much rather pay $25 or $50 more for an iPod or Zune if I could avoid DRM and download whatever I wanted whenever I wanted.
Personally I think that with more and more bands selling their music outside the traditional realms of the music industry, and many of them making a healthy profit doing so, that alternatives to current structure are more likely. Already sites like [Amie Street][5] offer musicians better ways of delivering their music to the world and I expect we'll see many more similar services pop up soon.
Of course well established acts like U2 and Britney Spears aren't going to go this route, but the acts that will inevitably supplant them as the new industry leaders may well be coming from outside the existing industry.
What do you think?
[1]: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/09/technology/09music.html?ex=1320728400&en=b380ce3d90e6a342&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss "New York times says Microsoft to pay Universal Music a portion of Zune proceeds"
[3]: http://techdirt.com/articles/20061108/235014.shtml "Techdirt on the microsoft Universal deal"
[4]: http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/11/09/on-universal-music-groups-zune-tax/ "TechCrunch on the Microsoft Universal deal"
[5]: http://amiestreet.com/home.php "Amiestreet.com"
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* Google has fessed up to [accidentally sending out some e-mail containing the Kama Sutra mass mailing worm][1]. The official statement begins, "On Tuesday evening, three posts were made to the Google Video Blog-group that should not have been posted." Mmmhmm.
* And in other Google News, Mashable is reporting that [Google Video is being sued][2] for copyright infringement. The announcement comes straight from Google, but so far there are no details beyond that.
* MagiQ Technologies claims to have [developed an unbreakable encryption scheme][3] that exploits Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle to generate cypher keys. While that sounds good, I can't help thinking that unsinkable ships sounded good at one point too.
* And finally in TSIA category: [Microsoft To Give A Cut Of Every Zune Sold To The Recording Industry -- Though It's Not Clear Why][4]
[1]: http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,127788-c,worms/article.html "Google emails Kama Sutra worm"
[2]: http://mashable.com/2006/11/09/google-video-sued/ "Google Video Sued"
[3]: http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/nov2006/tc20061106_302053.htm?campaign_id=bier_tcv.g3a.rssm1109z "Unbreakable Encryption?"
[4]: http://techdirt.com/articles/20061108/235014.shtml "Microsoft To Give A Cut Of Every Zune Sold To The Recording Industry -- Though It's Not Clear Why"
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