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Levy Rivers

B&N's Quamut Lures Publishers, Takes on About.com - 4/7/2008 - Publishers Weekly - 0 views

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  • ut, Weiss said, “We’re hoping to catch up and replace [About] in as many categories as we can.” He also said Quamut offers publishers opportunities to revive backlist titles through licensing deals. The company has purchased content from Globe Pequot on fly fishing and from TFH Publications on pet care.
  • About, said its writers are “journalists and professionals.” The company trusts its writers to post content before it is reviewed by About’s editorial staff. Health information is the exception; a medical review board examines content before it is published. But everything else is created on a “publish-first model,” said Daecher, with writers “fact-checking themselves.”
  • Christopher Reggio, book publisher at TFH, said Quamut initiated the licensing deal. TFH created some content exclusively for Quamut, while other material came from its existing titles. It has already supplied Quamut with 50 articles and is in the process of providing 50 more. Now that the site has officially launched, Reggio is hoping that links to other TFH books for sale at BN.com will result in book sales. Weiss expects Quamut to drive traffic to BN.com and to boost book sales.
Levy Rivers

Users Demand Expertise at How-To Web Sites - New York Times - 0 views

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  • Quamut is the latest brand to capitalize on what company executives said is a growing disinclination among Web users for amateur how-to advice. Whether that distaste can support a departure from Barnes & Noble’s core business is a question investors will be considering.
  • Quamut differentiates itself from the long list of how-to sites like eHow, HowStuffWorks.com and, to a lesser degree, About.com (which is owned by The New York Times Company), with a somewhat novel twist: selling downloadable documents of its otherwise free conten
  • This is far from the first online publishing initiative for Barnes & Noble, Mr. Weiss said. Among other efforts, the company in 2001 bought SparkNotes, an online study guide series, and helped oversee the expansion of that business into a wide range of topics. It also began printing and selling the guides in its stores
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  • Quamut pays a team of freelance writers to create those, which are vetted by the company’s editors. Those writers, Mr. Weiss said, are the other important difference between Quamut and sites that rely on self-proclaimed experts or site visitors for content. “We actually don’t believe in the wisdom of the crowd,” he said. “This is the old-fashioned publishing model.”
  • That model has established About.com as one of the most popular sites on the Web, and helped prop up the Times Company’s revenue. About, which offers a combination of how-to content and less pedagogical information involving urban legends or political humor, pays 721 freelancers to cover some 70,000 topics. Roughly 41 million people visited the site last month, according to comScore Networks, an increase of about 3 million from December.
  • Mr. Sinha, of the JMP Group, said the most successful how-to sites are likely to include expert advice, as well as advice from other readers and a format that allows questions and answers.
  • That is closer to the approach taken by Demand Media’s eHow, which is among the oldest of how-to sites. Investors poured about $30 million into the site during the online boom, only to see the business falter when advertising revenue dried up. After Demand bought eHow two years ago, it continued to build the site’s content with professionally written articles, but also allowed users to chime in with their own advice.
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    Division of B & N is trying to move into active space
Levy Rivers

Gee whiz! Unchained Labs raises $25M, acquires platform to optimize biologics research - 0 views

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    Tool builder
Levy Rivers

What is tunneling or port forwarding? - Definition from WhatIs.com - 0 views

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  • Tunneling is generally done by encapsulating the private network data and protocol information within the public network transmission units so that the private network protocol information appears to the public network as data.
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    The process of targeting and encryption can the be met jointly or are the separate problems that need to be addressed separately.  
Levy Rivers

Watch TV and movies via Xbox, PS3, Wii and more | Hulu Plus - 0 views

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  • We include advertisements in Hulu Plus in order to reduce the monthly subscription price of the service
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    What are the benefits and limitations of various methods of leaving the safety of different methods of consuming media
Levy Rivers

The link between diabetes and heart disease | health enews - 0 views

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      Levy Rivers on 10 Feb 15
       
      What are the exact metrics that describe - waist circumference, and the other items for tracking
  • So called metabolic syndrome – a combination of increased waist circumference, glucose intolerance, hypertension, low HDL and elevated triglycerides – is a common link between the development of both diabetes and heart disease. Thus, risk factors for heart disease must be evaluated in patients with diabetes.
Levy Rivers

Digital Health Trends in 2015 - 0 views

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      Levy Rivers on 29 Jan 15
       
      The secondary medical devices < 8 bil investment > 64% increase in video visits Lifestyle device - hub for living Reimburse for chronic out of office support algorithmic secondary decisions convergence opportunities  clinical devices more and cheaper and connected 120 mil devices by 2018 70 % believe fitness should be a work concern risk management strategies 65% will want instant service option virtual visits weight remotely monitored and sent but the dr better customer relations will be improved through 4 bill is equal to the past three years - investment value based care - incentivised to produce 43 billion towards valued based care seamlessly integrated into lifestyle - partnerships trials using tactics of home connections  
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    The predictions for a positive year of growth and why those ideas make sense.
Levy Rivers

Do You Decarboxylate Your Weed Before You Cook With It? It Is Highly Recommended | Food... - 0 views

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  • Gray explains the science thusly: "Raw cannabis contains a lot of THCA, which is nonreactive. When you smoke cannabis, it heats up to a certain temperature and loses a CO2 molecule and becomes THC, which has the psychoactive benefits that many users are looking for." Simply simmering cannabis in butter, or oil, isn't always enough to fully convert all of the THCA into THC, he continues. And so, the result is less than optimal: "You're going to make a very dull cannabutter," he says. The best method, Gray says, involves some added prep work. "So, instead of just, say, sticking your cannabis in butter or sticking it in oil, you should first grind it onto a baking sheet, stick it in your oven at 310-degrees Fahrenheit for about 10 to 18 minutes. That allows it to become psychoactive and it's ready to cook with."
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      Levy Rivers on 05 Jan 15
       
      The key element is to push the mj to the point of just before burning.
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