Christophe Maximin

It’s great.

The library of conditions, medications, allergies and procedures it has is really impressive.

The only thing is that I found it a little bit slow, some javascript/ajax related actions, I hope it will improve in the future.

However, I will probably not use it regularly for two reasons:

• I don’t live in the USA
• I think Google has enough data about myself (search history, gmail, adsense, calendar, reader, analytics)

A lot of people will find it useful anyway, to check their symptoms before calling a doctor or so. Google Health will be a great time and money saver.

… and a big headache for my Firefox. The Washington Post should really do something about this page (don’t click until you have about one minute of free time!).

Speaking of web development, guess how much this website (the direct linking is forbidden for some reason) cost the Canadian taxpayers…

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$1.5 million USD.

Next time, when you don’t know what you’re talking about, just say “I don’t know”, especially if you’re appearing on live television. By the way, this advice applies to everyone, political or not.

(Or “Why the MSNBC video player is great”)

1- It just works

I’m a GNU/Linux user (ubuntu!), so I probably should not say this, but I don’t care: It is in “full Adobe Flash”, so it’s really simple: Either you have a Flash player installed and everything is fine; either you don’t.
Yesterday night, I wanted to watch the Indiana and North Carolina Democratic Primaries live coverage, and MSNBC was the only place I could; And I think it has something to do with the fact their player isn’t a strange mix of Javascript, Flash and WMV streams, like CNN live for example.

2- The good video quality

This screenshot speak for itself I think (click to enlarge):

3- The playlist

You can navigate through all categories and put videos into a playlist while watching a video, which is very useful.

4- The advertising

The ads are non-repetitive, so you won’t get crazy watching the same ad over and over again, every two of three videos, like at comedycentral’s dailyshow or colbertreport.

”PS: This post wasn’t sponsored by MSNBC”

” Web 1.0 was connecting people to things. Web 2.0 is connecting people to people. Unfortunately, people talk back. ”

• Migrating to Ruby 1.9 - Bruce Williams
• Microsites Still Have Marketers’ Attention - eMarketer
• Why I love working with family people - David Heinemeier Hansson @SvN
• If you’re working in a big group, you’re fighting human nature - Matt Linderman @SvN
• The 90/10 rule- why Apple generates fan loyalty - James Kendrick
• Want more customers? Add a new niche - Shannon Cherry

Where all of this is going ? This is madness !.

” twitterfeed was pulling in my pownce feed to twitter, but I set twhirl up to send my tweets to pownce. Just put a cork in the quantum loop. ”

I’ve got to say, I have never been a fan of the whole StartUps-Based-On-VC-Speculation thing.
Although it’s funny to follow how it is going, I really don’t think it is the good example to follow, for a lot of reasons, regarding the future web services of my company.

I just love David Heinemeier Hansson (the creator of Ruby on Rails). speeches, simple and full of truth. Here is the last one, at Startup School.
I think every ‘web entrepreneur’ should watch it.

[ Flash Video ]

”TIP”: If like me, you were using Linux with the Flash 9.0 r4, you will have to update it to the 9.0 r115 version. Type ‘about:plugins’ in your address bar to know your version. The problem I had with the older version: the video was just stopping around 5 minutes after the start.

Update: Here is an alternate version that will always work:

[ Another Flash Video ]

AH AH MISTER GOOGLE ! SO YOU’RE NOT PERFECT ?!

They are more of a reminder actually, of things I haven’t shared on some webservice. By the way, you can follow my friendfeed’s feed here.
(Shared: Facebook, Blog, Digg, Flickr, Google Reader, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube)

• Obama Talks about Lack of Substance in Debate - (in a funny way)
• Small Business Owners More Pessimistic
• [french] Aimé Césaire est mort aujourd’hui: Que retenir de sa vie ?
• Aime Cesaire, 1913-2008: Remembering the Life and Legacy of the Black Pride Poet and Anti-Colonial Activist