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Trying to Understand the Impact of the Proposed Healthcare Reform Bills on Medicare and Medicaid? Here's a Starting Point...

John wrote 1 month ago: There is so much confusion about what is in (and what is out of) the proposed healthcare reform legi … more →

Tags: Healthcare, Healthcare Reform, Medicaid, Medicare, nursing home, ourparents, ourparents.com, Senior Care

Building on the great community powering OurParents.com - user reviews and forums are now live!

John wrote 2 months ago: Here is the latest press release we did on some of the new community features we have added over the … more →

Tags: Assisted Living, caregivers, in-home care, Medicare, nursing home, ourparents, ourparents.com, Senior Care

Here Are Our 2009 LaunchBox Digital Teams!

John wrote 3 months ago: Washington DC based LaunchBox Digital, an early stage investment firm and incubator founded in 2007 … more →

Tags: incubator, LaunchBox, LaunchBox Digital, McKinley, ourparents, ourparents.com, Startup, VC, Venture Capital

The destruction by experimental of the US Dollar

John wrote 5 months ago: A must read piece by Arthur Laffer, about the irresponsible live experimentation regarding our money … more →

Tags: Deficit, Dollar, money supply, Economy

OurParents.com launches - think of us as a free, unbiased "match.com" to connect families that have aging parents with senior care providers that can meet your unique needs

John wrote 5 months ago: Here’s what we said to the press: Millions of Baby Boomers are struggling to care for their ag … more →

Tags: Senior Care, nursing home, ourparents, ourparents.com, Assisted Living

Why MapQuest has lost its way, and how to fix it2 comments

John wrote 9 months ago: At times, it gets tiring to read the number of pile-on posts and comments written about AOL.  At thi … more →

Tags: iPhone, AOL, Mapquest, Google, Google maps, Hitwise, openstreetmaps.org, OpenStreetMaps, telenav

True Innovation Sighting: The Mobile Man Machine Interface And MIT3 comments

John wrote 9 months ago: At times, over the last two decades, we fall into a trap to believe that the major tech mountains ha … more →

Tags: android, Augmented Reality, G1, iPhone, johnny chung lee, Microsoft, microsoft surface, MIT, Mobile

Hey guys, I know of a great idea to show the reach of MySpace!

John wrote 9 months ago: Somewhere, in the hallways of MySpace, one of the corp comm guys has the ultimate ephinay.  He grabs … more →

Tags: social network, MySpace

LaunchBox Digital - Ready For Applications For Our 2009 Incubator Program!1 comment

John wrote 9 months ago: Last year, when we launched the business incubator component of LaunchBox Digital, we weren’t … more →

Tags: incubator, Startup, LaunchBox, LaunchBox Digital, android, Julius Genachowski, Sean Greene, Funding, WebOS

Waiting For Godot, or Damn, Do I Love What I Have Seen About The Palm Pre!

John wrote 10 months ago: There is a nice new video, taken back at CES, of the Palm Product VP showing off the great elements … more →

Tags: Palm, palm pre, android, Sprint, Verizon, AT&T

Call the Police! SongSmith redoes "Roxanne"

John wrote 10 months ago: By far, the most interesting community achievement of 2009 has to be the use of Microsoft’s So … more →

Tags: Microsoft, police, Roxanne, songsmith, Sting

Apple's patents won't prevent mobile innovation (the latest on the USPTO's grant of a broad-reaching multi-touch patent to Apple)

John wrote 10 months ago: Couldn’t help myself today!  I read more posts than I cared to that had effectively ceded mobi … more →

Tags: Multi-Touch, Multitouch, Apple, Palm, Patent, USPTO

Our First Nine Companies Graduate The LaunchBox Digital 2008 Incubator Program1 comment

John wrote 1 year ago: Wow!  What an exciting time for us.  Last fall, I met with Julius and Sean to talk about our views o … more →

Tags: Mobile, Search, eMail, LaunchBox, social network, User Generated content, Online Gaming, incubator, Startup

We are open for business! LaunchBox Digital: Incubator 2.04 comments

John wrote 2 years ago: This is the press release that’s hitting the wires Thursday – read some of the initial c … more →

Tags: iPhone, Mobile, AOL, LaunchBox, LaunchBox Digital, incubator, seed investing, Early stage, android

Someone just took away 30+% of your savings in the last three months, and you did nothing to stop them - the disaster that is the US Dollar...3 comments

John wrote 2 years ago: In mid-August, I wrote a post that mentioned that the softening in the US ad market was going to for … more →

Tags: Gold, Oil, Deficit, GAO, China, trade deficit, Dollar

Facebook thinks my friends want to know when I buy hemorrhoid cream - the culmination of a bad month for privacy, and my views on the solution12 comments

John wrote 2 years ago: This has been a pretty wild and woolly couple of weeks in the advertising and social networking spac … more →

Tags: Google, Search, MySpace, facebook, yahoo go, AOL, advertising, FCC, OpenSocial

Was this a really bad week for Microsoft, or are we overstating the threats?1 comment

John wrote 2 years ago: We have seen a glimpse of the future of productivity apps this week, ranging from: Adobe’s sma … more →

Tags: Microsoft, Mobile, Vista, Asus, Yahoo, Google, zimbra, AOL, eMail

Yahoo: Congrats on Zimbra, but think before you consider buying Zoho, it's already old school!4 comments

John wrote 2 years ago: This past week, I had the pleasure to attend the Techcrunch40 event.  The opportunity to see 140 com … more →

Tags: Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, zimbra, Google Apps, zoho, writely, buzzword, empressr

Who will be the first major (Google/Yahoo/Microsoft/AOL) to break ranks and apply a fundamentally new metaphor to email?7 comments

John wrote 2 years ago: We are in the midst of an important moment of truth – email as we know it is under attack, and … more →

Tags: Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, facebook, AOL, eMail, twitter, Spam, POP3


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