Reboot 10 Copenhagen, Here I come
Posted on June 17, 2008
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So it’s that time again, time to Reboot (http://www.reboot.dk/) the mind. I was only 2 short years ago I was at my first Reboot, Reboot 8. It was at that time I was floating around this idea of starting a new project, one that involved helping diabetics manage their disease online from any where in the world. As I had already put the idea off for 8+ months with the excuse “It’ll just be too big of a project…”, sharing my idea with others and getting their positive feedback pushed me to persue my idea and get things started. And thus SugarStats.com was born
Even starting part time it was so rewarding to be working on such a project. A year later things had evolved, we had grown and we were ready to launch our public beta pilot. Now it’s a year after that and we have thousands of users in 24+ countries, I love it. I love how we’re utilizing all the great new innovations, technologies and trends in the web space to address real issues in the world and actually improve a diabetics health, lifestyle habits and help keep them informed to make better decisions.
So now, Reboot 10. Pretty fitting as we’re finishing up with a complete rewrite and redesign on our initial launch for SugarStats. I can’t wait to partake in the conversation, disruption and thought process evolution that is sure to ensure next week, June 25th-26th, in Copenhagen Denmark. Won’t you join me?
If you’ll be there, drop me an email. marston@sugarstats.com
Find me on the Reboot website: http://www.reboot.dk/person-624-en.html
Tags: Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, Innovation, Reboot, Reboot 10, Reboot Copenhagen, reboot.dk, SugarStats, Web conference, Web Tech.
Posted on June 17, 2008
Filed Under Art & Design, Business, Daily Thoughts, Design, Diabetes, General, Health & Food, Startup, Tech, Travel, Web, WebDev
Do you have serious privacy concerns about Google Health?
Posted on June 16, 2008
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A recent poll was taken over at TuDiabetes.com and Manny posted the results. Though the poll didn’t have too many participants, I was surprised to see that 43% had “Serious Privacy Concerns” about it.
I have the following reply:
“43% has “serious privacy concerns”? Wow, seriously?I can’t help but wonder how many of the people concerned are so because of specific reasons or simply because everyone says they should be.
I mean we already have pretty much every piece of “secret” info about us stored somewhere on the internet. We access our bank accounts and make highly sensitive financial transactions daily with our online banking but there are privacy concerns with storing info like “Allergies”, “Conditions” and “Age/Sex/Height” into places like Google Health?
If it isn’t Google it will be someone else, which we’re seeing more and more of. In the end if people have privacy concerns with Google specifically then at the least they’ll have the power of choice with all the other solutions. But seriously, it’s quite likely those same people are still using Google services daily for their other needs such as search.”
While I do think privacy is a big issue in certain context and situations, some areas in medical in particular, I think in the context of diabetes PHR tracking and management it isn’t a main concern.
What do you think? If you’re on Ning or the TuDiabetes Diabetes social network check out the discussion or let me know here.
http://tudiabetes.com/forum/topic/show?id=583967%3ATopic%3A161948
Tags: Diabetes, Google Health, Google Health Privacy, Online Health Privacy, PHR, TuDiabetes.
Posted on June 16, 2008
Filed Under Business, Daily Thoughts, Diabetes, Health & Food, Mobile Tech, Quotes, Ranting, Tech
Intruders.tv Interview with SugarStats.com at TheNextWeb 2008 in Amsterdam
Posted on May 9, 2008
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Back in April at TheNextWeb I Met up with two great guys, Jude and James, who were shooting tech startup interviews for Intruders.tv.
I was able to do a quick 6min SugarStats.com interview and they were finally able to put it up on their site.
I was able to go over the how we started, the problems with diabetes as well as a little about our technical setup and where we’re going as a company.
Check it out:
http://uk.intruders.tv/Marston-Alfred-of-SugarStats-com-Online-diabetes-management-tool_a410.html
Tags: Amsterdam, Intruders.tv Interview, Marston Alfred, Online Diabetes Management, SugarStats, SugarStats Interview, SugarStats.com, The Next Web 2008 Amsterdam, TheNextWeb.
Posted on May 9, 2008
Filed Under Business, Design, Diabetes, Entertainment, Podcasts, Ruby on Rails, Startup, SugarStats, Tech, Travel, Web, WebDev
The Next Web 2008, Health 2.0 NL, BarCamp IV and Lunch 2.0: A whirlwind of good times and opportunity
Posted on April 16, 2008
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The past few weeks have been a whirlwind, I’ve just barely had a chance to catch my breath.
After being in Holland a few days I was able to attend the amazing TheNextWeb 2008 Conference in Amsterdam. The conference was top notch and was executed beautifully. The after parties, dinners and a live Diggnation were icing on the cake. I’ll definitely have to write a more indepth review about it but if you’re ever in the area while it’s going on I suggest you go.
Also last week I attended the Health 2.0 NL Unconference in Amsterdam which was just as great and surprisingly in a smaller volume. 50 or so people passionate about tech, health and how the 2 merge met up for a series of talks and networking. It was hosted and coordinated also by a top notch group of motivated go-getters and I have to say it was a smashing success. It was great to meet everyone here as well as give a presentation on SugarStats which was well recieved. I can’t wait for the next one as well as Health 2.0 Europe
Then of course there was the BarCamp IV Amsterdam which was put on by Peter Robinett, of course in Amsterdam too. Had a lot of great talks and got to meet a lot of bright, forward thinking folks. A keg of beer didn’t hurt all that much either 
This coming Friday is Lunch 2.0 in Amsterdam, should be a blash as well. So much to do I’ll have to defer a more in-depth post till later. Till then…
Tags: BarCamp, BarCamp IV, BarCamp IV Amsterdam, Health 2.0, Health 2.0 NL, Health 2.0 NL Unconference, Live Diggnation Amsterdam, Lunch 2.0, Lunch 2.0 Amsterdam, NextWeb, NextWeb 2008, SugarStats, TheNextWeb.
Posted on April 16, 2008
Filed Under Business, Design, Entertainment, Health & Food, Mobile Tech, Tech, Travel, Web
A List of Useful Online Diabetes Resources
Posted on November 29, 2007
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ReadWriteWeb, one of my favorite blogs, has a nice post on some cool Health 2.0 online diabetes management resources available to people. Unfortunately Richard the editor recently was diagnosed with diabetes which prompted the post.
“In this post, I’m somewhat selfishly going to review the diabetes sites and apps I found across the Web. But this post also serves, I hope, as an introduction to the more general topic of ‘Health 2.0’ – a.k.a. healthcare that uses the Internet.”
We’re grateful they included SugarStats in it, its always nice to be featured on one of your favorite blogs 
“SugarStats has potentially very useful aggregation, graphing and trending tools, plus you can share your stats with relatives or other diabetics. SugarStats also has a mobile version – even Twitter integration!! Overall, SugarStats is an excellent use of web 2.0 to enhance healthcare treatment.”
Very cool 
He goes on to list various resources from helpful learning material, to diabetes social networks (TuDiabetes.com) to Online Management with SugarStats.
Good stuff, check it out: A Health 2.0 Overview, Through the Eyes of a New Diabetic
Tags: Blood Sugar Control, Blood Sugar Log, Diabetes Blog, Diabetes Tech, Health 2.0, Online Diabetes Resources, SugarStats, TuDiabetes, Type 2 Diabetes.
Posted on November 29, 2007
Filed Under Diabetes, Health & Food, SugarStats, Tech
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