That happens a lot outside the U.S. too, so I guess is better to have something worth less than 40 bucks to do the tracking.

Exactly. In fact, Spielberg and Lucas tell where they got their inspiration for Indiana Jones character on the Extras of the IJ Trilogy collection: old adventure movies and comic books from the 30s and the 40s.

I agree that this information should be private (that's why Google Health didn't work as GOOG planned, right?).

But they offer a way for you to make your information private.

I think the encryption makes even more sense in services like https://www.23andme.com where you're getting genetic analysis information.

Google Health failed because there was very feel health SaaS companies and EHR systems in place when it launched. Second, it didn't really provide much value to them if they did use the APIs. And third the UI and marketing page were very mediocre.

I run a health app and very few people (far less than I expected) over the last 3 years showed concern about privacy.

We've actually had more emails about people wanting us to add social features so they could connect with others like themselves.

I don't think blood oxygen level can be measured using the phone's camera. Also, I read an article lately regarding the low level of accuracy regarding heart rate measured using an iPhone camera. I'll try to find it and post it.

Depending on the spectrum of the phone camera's flash LED, you might be able to get away with just putting a diffraction grating in front of the camera. I recall, from reading a TI app note about pulse oximeters a while back, that these work by comparing the relative intensity of IR and a visible-red light transmitted through the finger (and that there was also some way to do it with reflected light). I wonder if there is a clever way to calibrate the grating without any extra hardware?

Totally agree. The idea seems to be a good one, but the fact that it's limited to iOS and using the old connector is a big letdown.

We'll see. I do agree we're entering on a phase where people want to curate the over-information they're exposed to. I don't know if this will be the way to go, though. It's just a matter of time.

Just need to keep making enough sales to continue creating articles so your userbase increases in size. Probably a good idea to promote a newsletter to signup to for updates (possibly offer a weekly and monthly version).

Do you think it's possible to sustain this model w/out advertising? I'd love if they can pull that off.

Checking it out right now. Thanks Mike!

Weird, most browsers show the pics as they're uploaded to Twitter. And yes, it's pretty fast because people are sharing lots and lots of pictures related to Sandy right now. Will try to slow them down, but it won't be real time anymore.

Just a white screen for me too. When I hover over I see the tweet text, but the images never load on the screen. Chrome 22.0.1229.94. Cool idea though!

Thanks for your comment! We created it in about 15 minutes right when Sandy arrived to NYC, so we had little time to optimize it. It's showing in real time what's being shared over Twitter, it's not curated at all. Cheers!

No worries I totally understand. It'll be a useful service to some I'm sure. All the best!

Thanks a lot!