When running a business or marketing a product you require a way to maintain your social media's where you post your information about your product/business. The easiest way to maintain your social media's while keeping track of it statistically. There are many social media dashboards that exist but there a few like Hootsuite which is web based so you can use it on your iPhone/iPad/Computer and it's very stable. To use a dashboard you just link all the social media accounts that you want to view. You can make timed updates to any or all social medias. Some dashboards even cater to small med businesses. In addition to Hootsuite it is cheaper than Sprout.
Sprout Social is another social media  dashboard and it offer a lot more detail and analytic's. Both are very good dashboards, it just depends on how you want to manage your social medias.


Buffer

If you’re a beginner to social media management dashboards, Buffer is a good choice because it’s smart yet very easy-to-use. It’s quite simple, as you don’t have to deal with any technical set up. All you do is upload your content to Buffer and it’ll take care of all the sharing.

Buffer offers a free version, so you can try it out before you pay for it. However, the full version is limited in the number of social media accounts it will manage as well as the amount of spaces one can stagger.

One unfortunate downside to Buffer is that only a few social media websites are supported, basically just the main ones.



Sprout Social

One major advantage of Sprout Social is its price. It costs $39 per month, or $59 per month for a deluxe account and $99 per month for a premium account. If you’d like, you can try out all of their plans with a 30 days trial before investing your hard-earned money.

This social media management dashboard provides users with easy and gorgeous reports. If you’re someone who doesn’t really have an eye for design, then you’ll love this feature as it’ll provide you with a beautifully designed report at a click of a button.

Not only does this dashboard provide you with reports, it allows you to compare your own business with other competitors in terms of daily mentions and enagements, a conversation history, and it has a customizable inbox.

These are the five best social media dashboards so far(socialmediadata):

Hootsuite

Chances are, you’ve heard of Hootsuite as it is definitely one of the more popular of the top social media management dashboards for 2014, if not the most popular. The reason for its popularity is that it does an excellent job with social media management.

If you choose to go with Hootsuite, it will provide you with support for both brand and company pages on various social media websites, such as Twitter, Facebook, Google+, and LinkedIn. Hootsuite will also provide you with a scheduling and sharing tool, as well as an Auto Schedule Feature.



MultisocialSuite – Cash Unite

One user friendly social media dashboard is MultisocialSuite. What makes this dashboard special is that it includes a system of viral blogging, which will provide you with unrivaled social media reach. Its system of viral blogging is easily a contender to Empower Network.

MultisocialSuite and HootSuite are quite similar to each other, except the former has an Empower Network built in while the latter doesn’t. Therefore, you may want to go with this social media dashboard if you want a bigger bang for your buck.



SocialOomph

SocialOomph provides both paid and free social media management services. Not only can it connect to social media websites, but it can also connect to your blog. With SocialOomph, one can schedule as many mentions, tweets, and track keywords as they’d like. You can set it to automatically follow any new followers you gain, which will save you tons of time.

If you’ve never used a social media management dashboard before for your business, now is definitely the time to start. While there are many excellent social media management dashboards out there, you should start with the top social media management dashboards for 2014.
Source: http://socialmediadata.com/five-top-social-media-management-dashboards-for-2014-reviewed/

Today I was  on an app called "FeaturePoints" which I like to occasionally go on in my free time. It's a great app that lets people accumulate points by downloading apps  and using them for a certain amount of time. With the points you gain you can purchase things. But the good things about this is that FeaturePoints is acting as an advertisement for other apps. And there are many other apps like FeaturePoints that do this promotional things. This is only one app marketing strategy. There is also software like AdMob which helps advertise your app in other apps, like a banner or short clip. The best and most efficient way to promote/advertise your app is to showcase it on a micro-site (a one or two page showcase about your app). Also, another good way to  promote is a video, which is what Pascal is making. The video is a prominent solution to advertising because you can add it to any media site like (YouTube, Vimeo, etc). Another way to promote you app is through a podcast/radio but those are not extremely robust because it's not likely to attract a large group of audience.

Source (more promotional ideas): http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/229305

Today I got to use the Google Glass, I attached the given glass frame and turned it on. As much as I was excited when the Glass turned on  I was disappointed to see that the Glass functions weren't working because it gave the error "voice/home/camera stopped unexpectedly". Though it might be because it wasn't configured to the network. I had some other problems with the Google Glass was that it was hard to tell if was on or inactive, in the inactive state the Google glass voice functions "Ok Glass" available. For a quick demo run the Glass was interesting to look at but could use some changes I found that other people had similar problems with the  different on/off states for Glass. It would be easier if it were just two different states. But I hope to get the Glass running properly to see it at it's fullest and work with the Glass API. I have to admit it was fun see a screen being projected in front of me and it didn't feel weird seeing it. I thought I would be seeing it from one eye since the Glass eyepiece projects in a way that its seen with both eyes. The touch functions and head tilt functions work great. It's sensitivity is crisp and recognizes when I nod of look left and right.

Depending on what kind of health app you are developing it will fall into a certain category. It's crucial to figure out where you fall within these categories because will help better to identify your target group(s).

Now that were in an age were mobile devices are a major part of peoples life. App development is becoming a promising new field for many computer scientists. Primarily, Healthcare applications for patients. "Some of the most advanced medical apps are the 100 apps already approved by the FDA" but most apps aren't for general patients and it must be approved by the FDA (imshealth). Also, "50% of healthcare apps available to consumers can be downloaded for free and are produced by a variety of types of developer" which is important to remember that if you are competing with other healthcare apps out there it's better to see what your competition has done (imshelath). Also when creating a healthcare application you need to take into consideration if the app will cover the full patient journey, are therapy area specific or demographic specific.

App requirements/expectations:
• Inform: Provide information in a variety of formats (text, photo, video)
• Instruct: Provide instructions to the user
• Record: Capture user entered data
• Display: Graphically display user entered data/output user entered data
•  Guide: Provide guidance based on user entered information, and may further offer a 
diagnosis, or recommend a consultation with a physician/a course of treatment
• Remind/Alert: Provide reminders to the user
• Communicate: Provide communication with HCP/patients and/or provide links 
 to social networks 


Eventually, we can even make gadgets that functions with the applications for the doctor to use on his patients. This way the doctor doesn't have to purchase expensive separate instruments, everything is on his device. This way the device is also multipurpose and can perform many different tasks/operations. Just like the video bellow, it a clinician on the go. These tools are all on the phone so if an accident happens somewhere the doctor can immediately respond and use all the applications/gadgets b/c it's all on his phone and convenient.

Today I learned a bit about "Big O of notation" from Mike. There are many algorithms that  a computer scientist can use but the career changing question is which one is the best? In the Big 0 notation is just the classification for different types of algorithms. There is Big 0(1) which is just going from position a in array to position b in an instant but it takes a constant time. There is also Big 0(n) which is using a key to find the value in the array, There's also more complex ones like Big O(n^2) which rises up more faster at an exponential rate and Big O(log[n]) which rises and goes to the right. So, basically all these different types of curves are types algorithms. And the best algorithm is the one that is the fastest. The algorithm that can get the value from the array the fastest is also more likely to be used to be implemented into databases and other things. Algorithms are crucial part of a computer scientist's career but I hope to learn more about algorithms  and the other areas of the field in time.

Today I went to the library to work on something a little different for a change than goggle api or apple health-kit. I decided to check out some html & css styling for once.  I'll provide the html file and the css styling file that gotoher to create a small test site I created. It was fun in the making of the test site and I will probably continue to create a website on my free time. I hope to create a website with more features and a better looking appearance. Overall it was enjoyable and something i look forward to trying more of.

For many  gerontologists it is hard to see the human gut, The small intestine is not easy to examine. However, nanojuice can help with that problem. In an article by  ScienceDaily, the University at Buffalo has come up with a way to view the small intestine other than a big camera pill. Nanojuice is basically  nanoparticles suspended in liquid. "It is also where symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome, celiac disease, Crohn's disease and other gastrointestinal illnesses occur"(Science Daily). To assess the organ, doctors typically require patients to drink a thick, chalky liquid called barium. TH only problem is that "They are unsuitable for the human body, however, because they don't disperse in liquid and they can be absorbed from the intestine into the blood stream". Hopefully it will be suitable for to be used for humans, it will change the gastroenterology department greatly and open many new doors.
The amazing thing about this "nanojuice" is that the "combination of "nanojuice" and photoacoustic tomography illuminates the intestine of a mouse"(ScienceDaily).

Google Glass being a hip product, has many applications for medicine. Some medical applications are:
- For example, if a doctor or nurse patient’s bed and instantly see all their vitals such as pulse, BP, Body temp, O2 Sats, etc.
- The ability for the doctor to overlay an image of an MRI or scan on the patient and point out or discuss it with easy.
- We can also implement a use for the patients and doctors who use Glass, they can have a patient to doctor talk/appointment. And live stream and confidential information will go through a secure portal.
- Since most of things can be done in real-time things like taking a picture of a lesion or tumor, and having a pathologist or colleague give a timely opinion can be done.
- Consulting an expert, or checking any data for a better, safer surgery.This way doctors can see what the students or residents are doing.
- Also the Glass can sense the body temperature of the person/patient which will help the doctor to see if they have any sort of fever or other bodily  problems.
It will also be good to implement some sort of medical dashboard that displays patient vital signs, urgent lab results and surgical checklists.

In addition to medical applications and technology, in Ed's blog he mentioned the use of a pill that can be swallowed by the patient and take pictures of the intestines and real back the images to the doctor. This way the doctor can see if the patient has any internal bleeding, chrons disease or any other gastro problems. From what I've read is that the intestine is a difficult part for the doctors to get any visual info on.
 Although the Google glass cannot completely diagnose the patient of a disease, which is why we will still need doctors to that part of the job. But who knows maybe in a couple of years we will have the technology to do it for us.

Today I took  a look at the Google Mirror API. Personally I'm stoked about this project the most. Primarily because Google glass seems like fun to work with. Since I've been using Unity we can use it to develop and work with the Google glass API. From what I've learned and heard about the API is that it is a restful API. Also, with the mirror API the "Glass device is to your application presented as a web service in the cloud, that you can control by sending queries over the Internet"(stackoverflow). The Google Glass API seems easy at first like adding text and or small functions. I also explored the Glass Playground. But depending on what the project is we will have to create permissions for the user to access things like the voice trigger.

Also the capability of Google Glass is very broad because there are many things that can be done including AR(Augmented Reality), the augmented reality is still in development but it's getting there. The people at Layar are working on the augmented reality. This seems interesting because  with the capabilities of Google glass is it possible to simulate something like an augmented reality.

Many people on the internet have shared a few of their experiences with unity and Google glass API development. I read a few and found it interesting, but a bit complex to understand. I'm slowly starting to understand a bit. It's good to have a background in android development. because its a good transition. But I look forward to create at least a simple application for the Google Glass.