Mobile Commons announced today it has partnered with the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, to use text messaging to help teens and young adults quit smoking. Developed by smoking cessation experts, SmokefreeTXT provides the targeted advice and encouragement that young people need to quit smoking – all via text message. The text messages run in both English and Spanish, and the content is paced according to the recipient’s individual quit date. This announcement also marks the launch of Mobile Commons’ new health care edition – Mobile Commons for Health – which will allow the health care industry to integrate the power and reach of mobile messaging to improve health care outcomes.
Mobile Commons Launches New Health Care Edition
Your video “Ben and Arin’s Wedding”, has content that is owned by IODA
Your video “Ben and Arin’s Wedding”, has content that is owned by UMG
Your video “Ben and Arin’s Wedding”, has content that is owned by SME
Your video “Ben and Arin’s Wedding”, has content that is owned by EMI — YouTube
Really excited for our next BK Tech Talk this coming Monday:
Nerds LOVE Bitcoin. It’s technologically and cryptographically fascinating. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin
But is it actually a currency? Kenneth Bromberg, lead programmer of Bloomberg’s foreign exchange platform, will explain what actually makes something a “currency”, why Bitcoin doesn’t fit that definition, and why it therefore doesn’t trade on the global currency exchanges.
When Nancy Lublin started texting teenagers to help with her social advocacy organization, what she found was shocking — they started texting back about their own problems, from bullying to depression to abuse. So she’s setting up a text-only crisis line, and the results might be even more important than she expected.
I was just showing one of my friends at work the cutest picture of Oliver that Ally took the other day, and she explained to me why he looks so cute. In the picture he looks exactly like everyone’s favorite childhood memory, Falcor the Luck Dragon.
Anonymous asked: Yo dawg, you're on the Board for In Our BackYard? Very cool.
I am. And yes, it is cool.
More importantly, ioby went national today!
Yep, pretty sure Context-Free Patent Art is my new favorite Tumblr.
