Low-res Video From OW Demo at Tech Meet-up

Utah Here I Come

I'll be speaking about OrganizedWisdom and Health 2.0 at the Information Therapy Conference next week in Park City Utah.

I'll post some pictures when I get back and probably twitter a bit too.

The next revolution is not going to come from a machine

Read more about my thoughts on this over in my blog post on the OrganizedWisdom blog here.

Presenting At Tech Meet-UP Tonight

My partner and I will be presenting OrganizedWisdom to the New York Tech Meet-up tonight. It starts at 7PM so stop by if you have time. It should be fun and we're looking forward to seeing what types of questions and feedback we get from the crowd.

OW In San Fransisco Chronicle

I've been super busy lately for a lot of reasons, and the re-launch of the new OrganizedWisdom has been a whirlwind and things are going great. Many more updates soon, once things settle down a bit but wanted to share the article below.

The San Fransisco Chronicle has an interesting piece on new online health companies that mentions us this week:

Read the article here.

OrganizedWisdom Launches First Human Guided, Doctor Reviewed Search Service for Health

We've been busy for quite awhile on the NEW organized wisdom platform which is a dramatic leap forward for us.

Today, we officially launched an early BETA of a new human-guided, doctor-reviewed search service for health. Our goal is to use search experts, editors, and physicians to improve health search.

Here is the press release: http://organizedwisdom.com/OrganizedWisdom:News_Center

Here are some early reviews:

Mashable

HealthcareVOX

Boston.com

It's still very early stages, but I would love any feedback you may have. This is a big mission and one that I am very excited about. Any suggestions will help us keep making the service better.

Interpol Show At MSG

Went to Interpol show the other night at MSG. My guess is the band is bummed right now, because they bombed. Musically, I really liked it. But the performance was a joke.

First of all, the place was only 2/3 full because they couldn't sell enough tickets. It gave the appearance of an empty restaurant on the busiest night of the week.

The stage seemed to swallow the band because they didn't know what to do with it. They had a weak lighting show and this horrible shim thing that was supposed to come down after the first dong but didn't. They actually had to stop the show to get the thing to drop. It must have been embarasing for them and I think set the tone for the rest of the show.

Finally, they have trouble playing more than an hour. And when you play the Garden you need to be able to play at least 90 minutes if not two or three hours! Come on, this is your opportunity to blow NYC away!

Anyway, I was happy I went to the show as I am a big fan. I was underwhelmed though and think they need to re-evaluate what worked and didn't work so they can get it right next time.

Hopefully they get that chance. Or if they're smart, next time maybe they will do 5 sold out shows in a row at Radio City and stick with what they are great at.

The Whites Stripes Cancel Rest of Tour: Meg White Sick

Read the official post on their site, but looks like the rest of the tour has been canceled which is very sad. What's worse is I don't buy the "Meg has anxiety" story at all and they could be done as a duo.

I was fortunate enough to see them twice on this tour (their private party at Irving Plaza to kick off the tour and at MSG -- both rocked!) and they were both incredible performances.

I recorded the Filmore Show (Irving Plaza) which you can still get here although the quality is rough.

OrganizedWisdom Featured in This Week's Economist

I did an interview with Jeanette Borzo several week's ago for this trend piece she just published on the Health 2.0 movement. Our company, OrganizedWisdom was lucky enough to be featured prominently in the article (below). Things are really heating up for our company: We're officially unveiling our new site this week, we are speaking at the 3 most prominent health care conferences in the coming weeks, and we are hiring great talent!

Here's the article:
Technology and society: Is the outbreak of cancer videos, bulimia blogs and other forms of “user generated” medical information a healthy trend?

In Front of CBGB's: RIP Hilly! We'll Miss You!

Snapped these pictures in front of the old CBGB's last night. The sad thing was seeing the awning gone.

 

Crowdsurfing In Tokyo - WOW!

Looking Forward to New Film About Bob Dylan: I'm Not There

The New York Times wrote a brief piece about a new film about Bob Dylan: I'm Not There.

The film is only opening in New York City (at the Film Forum) and in LA. It's times like these I remember why I love living here!

Cleveland Rocks!

Family picture...me with my brothers and two of my cousins last weekend in Ohio.

Click for my pics on Flickr.

Focus on More At-Bats

In another great post by Marc Andreseen, he highlights some data to show:

Quality of output does not vary by age... which means, of course, that attempting to improve your batting average of hits versus misses is a waste of time as you progress through a creative career. Instead you should just focus on more at-bats -- more output. Think about that one.

So the morale is: just keep trying!

TheStreet.com (TSCM) Buys Corsis and Promotions.com for $20 Million

Congrats to all of our friends and partners over at Corsis Technologies/Promotions.com. Online finance site operator TheStreet.com (TSCM) acquired the company today for nearly $21 million.

I have a long great history with each of these companies over the past decade. In one way or another, I have been deeply involved with these companies for the last 10 years. In the mid-nineties I joined start-up Promotions.com (some may remember it as Webstakes, and to make it more complicated Corsis is officially changing it's name to Promotions.com) as head of marketing to work with Steven Krein for the first time (Steve was the co-founder and CEO and is now my current partner in OrganizedWisdom). From a scrappy start-up, we quickly became the first and largest online promotions agency and took the company public on NASDQ in 1999. In fact, we were one of the last companies to successfully IPO before the big dot com bust. Fun and interesting times I will never forget.

I was also fortunate to have worked with TheStreet.com many years ago. Way back when I worked at new media communications agency Middleberg and Associates, I was on the PR/marketing team that helped launch and do online strategy for TheStreet.com. As a peon recently out of school I only had a few interactions with James Cramer, but I still have an email he sent me one day saying simply: "Great Job!".

And most recently, we've continued to partner with Corsis/Promotions.com. When Steve and I decided to launch our most recent venture, OrganizedWisdom, the first person we called was Gregg Alwine and our friends over at Corsis/Promotions.com to manage our technology. They've been a key partner, an investor, and instrumental to our success ever since.

Congrats again to all parties involved! We're looking forward to even bigger things to come...