Digital Advertising
I went to OCTANE OC’s “Digital Advertising” event yesterday and had the opportunity to meet a lot of super interesting advertising execs including Ryan Steelberg of Brand Affinity. My key takeway of the night was the importance of multichannel advertising. The VP of Interactive Media from the OC Register even talked about the Register’s plan on changing to become a service provider of advertising across platforms, whether it is print, online, or billboards, rather than their old model, which was selling adspace in its newspapers. The Register recognizes that it... Read The Rest →
Adoption Curve for Health IT Applications
If you’ve ever read the “Innovator’s Dilemma” or Moore’s “Crossing the Chasm”, you know that there is a wide technological adoption gap between early adopters and the so-called masses. Within the last week and a half, I’ve had a lot of conversations about Personal Health Records and their future. Since, I’ve started on my health 2.0 project, I keep hearing about concerns regarding privacy. The concerns about HIPAA and user privacy have been brought up more times than I can care to count. It’s true, we are a while away... Read The Rest →
Day 1 C++
Learned the basics of OO programming, creating classes and the like. Spent about a half hour going over it and half and half an hour playing with the code. The goal is to be able to write 300 lines of code from scratch or to be able to successfully debug a good amount of code. **I’ve also decided to make this the first day of my Max OT workout. Here’s the split I’m using. I’ve used this workout before in the past and have made some amazing gains. The goal... Read The Rest →
Learning C++ In 24 Hours
So about a month ago I decided to learn some programming skills to add to my entrepreneurial repertoire, now that I have some time on my hands. I’ve recently closed the door on my offline staffing project so it has freed up some time. I plan to learn the basic concepts of C++ and object-oriented programming with the goal of writing 300 lines of code from scratch. So the plan is to learn a basic object-oriented programming language in a total of 24 hours spread over 1 month. I plan... Read The Rest →
