A study finds (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/04/18/want-to-cut-health-costs-show-doctors-a-price-tag/) that showing the doctors the price for tests they order results in a significant reduction in expenses: When doctors saw this information, they ordered 9.1 percent
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Janko Roettgers notes that Pandora users are slightly more likely to report that owning music is important to them, and then argues: The company didn’t make any data available about people who pay for a streaming subscription, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see significantly lower interest in
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Burkhard Bilger has a wonderful profile of the Mars Curiosity mission (http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/04/22/130422fa_fact_bilger?currentPage=all): She wasn’t wrong, exactly, just off by a few decades. All nine of Curiosity’s principal investigators were middle-aged men. Lined up behind the
Nick Arnott on Panic’s new iPad app, Status Board: Maybe the number of builds they have each day, or GitHub pushes, or Pivotal velocity, or bugs closed in Lighthouse. The list goes on and on. I’ve already seen a number of people on Twitter getting excited just thinking
Khoi Vinh: No one wants to type more on a multi-touch phone or tablet if they don’t have to, so when they see an app demonstrate that typing can be eliminated entirely, it’s an eye-opening moment, for sure. But is it magic? Almost. To simplify is
Dr. Drang on Fantastical’s animations, which show you how it’s interpreting your calendar event as you type it: This is not just eye candy. The animations are providing instant feedback on how Fantastical is parsing your words and, more important, they’re teaching you Fantastical’s syntax. This
Kurt Eichenwald has an excellent look (http://www.vanityfair.com/business/2013/05/facebook-future-mark-zuckerberg-sheryl-sandberg) at Facebook’s business model: Andreessen and others around in those early days of Facebook agree that no one was quite sure how the business would ultimately earn profits. But that
When Apple announced the iPhone in 2007, they presented it as a device that did three things: made calls, played music and video, and browsed the web. When I saw the announcement, I knew that day that I had to have one when it was released. That wasn’t because
Jake Lodwick argues that an acquisition is always a failure (http://pandodaily.com/2013/04/02/an-acquisition-is-always-a-failure/): I typically refer to the IAC sale as “the worst business decision of my life.” I’m not sure IAC is worse than any other large company in
There are many insightful things in this interview with Alan Kay and I suggest you read it in its entirety. Here are two: By contrast, it is not a huge exaggeration to point out that electronic media over the last 100+ years have actually removed some of day to day