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	February 28th, 2013 SimplyInsured (YC W13) launches to take the pain out of health insurance quotes and enrollment Posted 1 day ago by Garry Tan to Y Combinator Posterous For small businesses, buying and managing health insurance is a “pain in the buns,” to quote my new favorite ad. Not only are its complicated terms, lack of transparency, slow quoting and on-boarding process and paper trail a pain in your buns, but health insurance can be a massive pain in your wallet, to boot. Hidden costs are everywhere. Y Combinator-backed SimplyInsured is launching today with a solution. Founders Vivek Shah and George Huo, who were also both early employees at YC startup Cardpool (which sold to Blackhawk Network in late 2011), have built a simple, online health insurance manager and quote engine for small businesses, which aims to explain in plain English what is or isn’t working about your current plan and help you identify hidden costs and cost-savings. Read the full article on Techcrunch Get instant quotes for health insurance for yourself and your small business at SimplyInsured Sent by Posterous. Change your email settings or unfollow. Other questions? We'd love to help.

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	February 27th, 2013 兵庫島で Posted 1 day ago by Koichi Mitsui to s a s u r a u ネコとミーティング。 一歩 Posted about 14 hours ago by Koichi Mitsui to s a s u r a u しっかりと。 Sent by Posterous. Change your email settings or unfollow. Other questions? We'd love to help.

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	February 26th, 2013 揺れ Posted 1 day ago by Koichi Mitsui to s a s u r a u 2 再び。 Thalmic (YC W13) launches the Myo armband for gesture control Posted 1 day ago by Garry Tan to Y Combinator Posterous As stuff like Google Glass becomes mainstream, we’re going to see a lot more wearable computing devices around. But one thing that isn’t clear is how we’ll control them. One idea is to use gesture control, which would enable users to communicate with wearable computers without having to use a whole separate smartphone or other device to do so. But so far, gesture control for most devices — like the Xbox Kinect, for instance — has depended upon cameras watching user movement. That means remaining in a fixed space and using pre-programmed gestures that are not exactly natural, but can be picked up by cameras. As a result, today’s gesture control technologies are far from perfect. In fact, most to date are just downright bad. Y Combinator-backed startup Thalmic Labs believes it has a better way of determining user intent when using gesture control. To do so, it’s developed a new device, called MYO, which is an armband worn around the forearm. Using Bluetooth, the armband can wirelessly connect to other devices, such as PCs and mobile phones, to enable user control based on their movements without directly touching the electronics. See it in action here: Embedded media -- click here to see it. Read the full article on Techcrunch Preorder at getmyo.com From Triceratops excavation to Anthrax therapeutics: Microryza (YC W13) launches a Kickstarter for scientific research Posted 1 day ago by Garry Tan to Y Combinator Posterous Do you want to know whether cannibalism existed amongst Tyrannosaurus Rexes or whether specific viruses contribute to lung cancer risk? Better yet, do you want to be part of making this research happen faster? A Y Combinator-backed startup called Microryza is positioning itself as a “Kickstarter” for science research. The idea for Microryza sprouted when Cindy Wu, then an undergraduate at University of Washington, found that she had little hope of getting funding for studying a potential anthrax therapeutic. She had discovered it after helping to create a video game that let regular people fold and create virtual enzymes. They came up with 87 different mutants that summer through the video game, and found that one could potentially treat anthrax infections after winning an MIT-based synthetic biology competition. Read the full article at Techcrunch Visit microryza.com and fund original scientific research Semantics3 (YC W13) launches the one Consumer Products API to rule them all: Over 20M products with clean metadata Posted about 22 hours ago by Garry Tan to Y Combinator Posterous As more merchants flock to the web to sell their products, there has been a deluge of data to be indexed by retailers who are looking to see where certain products are being sold and for how much. Parsing and extracting the value from all of this data is a huge challenge. YC-backed Semantics3 has created a database that aims to track every product sold online, and every price it has ever been sold at, providing retailers with an API to this database. The company, which was founded by classmates at a computer engineering college program in Singapore, indexes several dozen of the top e-commerce sites online and provides a self-serve API so developers can tap into its constantly updated database of consumer products. Why would developers want to index this data? Retailers need to do UPC lookups, get detailed data for products (i.e. consumer electronics or clothing) sold on the web, price histories and more. Read the full article on Techcrunch Save your business from password hell: Meldium (YC W13) launches secure cloud password service for all your SaaS apps Posted about 21 hours ago by Garry Tan to Y Combinator Posterous If you’ve been part of a small- or medium-sized business or organization recently, you’ve dealt with “the spreadsheet.” It’s that document that’s tacked up on the wall (or shared via email) where all the group’s important login names and passwords are kept — the team's Twitter DropBox LexisNexis subscription, et cetera. It’s a mess to maintain in itself, of course, but the real problems come when people leave the team. Right away, an admin must go one by one through shared apps such as Yammer and WordPress and disable access to the group version. As for the spreadsheet? Well, here’s hoping nobody copied the information to take with them (and take the official Twitter account for one last joyride.) It’s awful, but it’s the status quo. The good news is that a brand new company has created something much, much better. Meldium, a company that’s set to graduate next month from Silicon Valley startup incubator Y Combinator, has created a way for small- to medium-sized businesses and teams to securely share access to all the apps they use. Read the full article on Techcrunch Sent by Posterous. Change your email settings or unfollow. Other questions? We'd love to help.

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	February 24th, 2013 枡形山 Posted about 14 hours ago by Koichi Mitsui to s a s u r a u 気温上がって遠景霞む。 Sent by Posterous. Change your email settings or unfollow. Other questions? We'd love to help.

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	February 23rd, 2013 湾岸散歩 Posted 1 day ago by Koichi Mitsui to s a s u r a u 歩きすぎて靴が壊れた。 大雄山 Posted about 13 hours ago by Koichi Mitsui to s a s u r a u 新しいカメラで。 Sent by Posterous. Change your email settings or unfollow. Other questions? We'd love to help.

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	February 22nd, 2013 Codecademy (YC S11) launches API lessons for Twitter, Evernote, Box, WePay, Firebase, Github, more Posted 1 day ago by Garry Tan to Y Combinator Posterous Codecademy, the startup that aims to teach people everywhere how to code, wants to help make those APIs even more accessible. Today Codecademy is announcing that it has partnered with a number of established web companies to offer a host of new lessons that concentrate on the basics of building with their specific APIs. Codecademy first launched API lessons last month, but this release brings a number of new big name API providers to the mix. Codecademy now has lessons for building with APIs from Twitter, Evernote, Box, and Gilt. The full list of Codecademy’s new API partners is rounded out by WePay, Microsoft SkyDrive, 23andme, Mashape, Ordr.in, Firebase, Easypost, Github, MailChimp, and Dwolla. Read the full article on Techcrunch Referly (YC S12) makes its first acquisition, LaunchGram Posted 1 day ago by Garry Tan to Y Combinator Posterous At just about a year of age, Referly may be a tad young to be making its first acquisition. But the San Francisco-based startup is doing just that today with the purchase of 500 Startups-backed LaunchGram. Basically, LaunchGram was a service that kept people up-to-date on upcoming product releases. Because Referly also appeals to people who like to curate products and earn extra cash off recommendations through affiliate revenue, there was a big overlap in their customer base, Refer.ly CEO Danielle Morrill explains. Read the full article on Techcrunch Citus Data (YC S11) launches CitusDB for Hadoop Posted 1 day ago by Garry Tan to Y Combinator Posterous Embedded media -- click here to see it. Citus Data has launched CitusDB for Hadoop, a service that can process petabytes of data within seconds. The offering shows once again that the new class of analytics databases that can analyze everything from data to entire libraries of digital books are the next big thing. CitusDB is based on Google Dremel, a real-time analytics database that has surpassed Hadoop’s analysis capabilities. The difference is in its parallel-computing capabilities and SQL-like functionality. Do a query across petabytes of data over thousands of servers and the results come back in real-time. Read the full article on Techcrunch Upverter (YC W11) raises $650K, running a hackathon at YC on Friday Feb 23 Posted 1 day ago by Garry Tan to Y Combinator Posterous Embedded media -- click here to see it. Toronto’s Upverter is a startup that’s poised to effect change that could reshape the landscape of entrepreneurship. That’s not something you can say about most of the businesses we cover on a daily basis, whether or not they have good ideas. But it’s definitely true of Upverter, the company that’s hoping to build a cloud-based hardware engineering platform that can match and overtake its desktop-based counterparts within the next few years. ... The rise of Upverter means a potential explosion on the horizon for hardware startups, which is why the company is hosting a hardware hackathon with Y Combinator on February 23rd. Making hardware engineering collaborative, affordable and easy to access can have a tremendous impact on the cost of doing business and risks associated with creating new hardware, which is why Upverter achieving its goals could lead to a new revolution for hardware startups, incubators and investors alike. If you happen to be one of those hardware startups, Upverter is offering free team accounts to TC readers. Just follow this link to sign up. Read the full article on Techcrunch TrustEgg (YC W11) launches the the way for any parent to set up trusts for their children Posted 1 day ago by Garry Tan to Y Combinator Posterous TrustEgg, a Y Combinator-backed startup which lets parents set up trusts for their children is actually launching. That’s a milestone in and of itself, because, as a financial services company, it had been facing a lot of regulatory hurdles. The company has also recovered from the loss of its first co-founder, Gabe Krambs, who left CEO Jeff Brice to take a job that paid the bills. It has since added John Zdanowski, co-founder, CFO, and investor to the team, and has relocated operations to San Diego. Read the full article on Techcrunch 面白いこと Posted 1 day ago by Koichi Mitsui to s a s u r a u 1 始まりそう。 Gnocchi: 4 Flavors, 4 Sauces Posted about 21 hours ago by markbittman to bittman A phrase often used (overused, really) to describe well-made gnocchi is "light as a cloud." It’s not an especially instructive description for a piece of real food, and for cooks hoping to try their hands at gnocchi for the first time, it can be downright daunting. It’s true that gnocchi requires a bit of technique, but achieving that cloudlike texture — "light" is perhaps a simpler, less intimidating word — isn’t actually that difficult. Read the rest of this article, get the recipes, and watch the video with Mario Batali here. Sent by Posterous. Change your email settings or unfollow. Other questions? We'd love to help.