That's exactly what happened to me. But if you don't have the data plan, why would you need the phone? Two things I really like about my new feature phone... (a) phone quality is better (b) it's smaller

It lets me check my calendar in the morning. An important use case, but not something that would generate habit throughout the day.

I did this, but for a specific city service in Madison, WI. I built an API for the Madison Metro bus service that provides a nice web service for developers, but does ugly screen scraping behind the scenes.

http://www.smsmybus.com/api/

Have you looked into jquery mobile? Still in alpha, but a nice toolkit for building mobile apps that run in the browser but look and feel like a native app.

http://jquerymobile.com

There are some companies doing this for general prescriptions. Vitality - http://www.vitality.net/ - has a wireless cap that helps track adherence.

But asthma is pretty unique since the inhalers are used in "rescue" situations and there are strong geographic correlations that arise from environmental issues.

Yeah the fact that it tracks the use of inhalers is very clever. It provides a much more rich history of use to help doctors decide the best way to manage their patients. Currently medications for asthmatics are determined by a asthma severity scale (symptom frequency, night time attacks, etc) - so a more fine-grained analytics would be interesting.

I would think this approach would work well if applied to other diseases where the frequency that the patient takes the medication is tied to symptoms - chest pain/nitroglycerin or acid-reflux/antacids are a couple of examples.

Do you have a PayPal (or similar) account setup for collecting funds?

4braham@gmail.com is a working PayPal account.

I'm good for $20.

Consider it payment for your work growing the tech community in Madison, WI as well as a down payment for your future evangelism on the behalf of Madison.

Oh, and I wouldn't mind some baked goods!

Since you're nearby, you get a few options of baked goods: fresh baked bread; key lime pie with or without meringue; fabulous old-fashioned gingersnaps; oatmeal raisin and/or chocolate-chip cookies; or chocolate cake with cream cheese or coconut/walnut frosting. Pick one, and we'll coordinate drop-off when it's ready :)

I would have pegged a Mainer to make a mean Fluffernutter Pie. :) I'd love the key lime pie (without meringue). Thanks!

We hippies aren't so into the fluff.

(Although I do have a jar in my cupboard at the moment... Don't tell Mom... :p)

Oddly enough, I didn't know about fluffernutter pie until just a little while ago, reading a cooking blog that's written by a New Englander. Funny what you learn about your heritage when you're no longer in it! In any case, I'll gladly make one for you, if you'd prefer that over the key lime--it'd be a fun challenge :)

I'm sending money to your paypal right now. Thanks for all of the amazing things you've done for the tech community in Milwaukee/Madison :}

You're a little further than @gtracy, so key lime pie is a little too squishy to send... But if you want some home-baked bread or cookies or cupcakes... (Also, I make a mean fruit bread with slices of orange and lemon rind!)

Cupcakes! :D

That post isn't a long term solution. It's a patch. One that they are going back to again today by flipping the IP address.

Madison has many parallels with Boulder but not necessarily in the realm of nurturing tech startups. So there is a lot to learn. Bring me to Boulder for the week, and I'll soak it all in and bring it back to Madison.

Hopefully, in a year or so, I'll have an opportunity to reciprocate.

check out the rest of their message... sharendipity is building a platform where all of these programming elements can be re-used without the need to program. you can build a complete application without punching a single semi-colon.