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Social Tools for the Office Worker: How to Subvert I.T. and Play at Work
Written by Sarah Perez / April 25, 2008 12:17 PM / 16 Comments
We can't all eat, breathe, and live social media 24x7, as much as we might like to. Some of have day jobs that require a bit of our attention, too. Continue reading »


Using Semantic Search to Cure Disease, Prevent Animal Testing
Written by Richard MacManus / April 9, 2008 3:16 PM / 2 Comments
One of the big trends in 2008 has been the emergence of what I call Semantic Apps - a kind of 'Web 2.0 Meets Semantic Web' app typified by startups Continue reading »


Amazon's Newest Web Service: Shipping Center APIs
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / March 20, 2008 8:27 AM / 13 Comments
Amazon wants to do for physical product shipping what it's done for web storage and computing power - leverage its surplus infrastructure built up by Amazon.com to offer cheap and Continue reading »


Health Care at SXSW - Health Getting Hot With Tech Crowd
Written by Guest Author / March 15, 2008 9:39 PM / 9 Comments
SXSW 2008 will most likely be remembered for the Zuckerberg interview controversy. But a more interesting phenomenon, that in some ways broke through at SXSW, was health care and tech. Continue reading »


Health 2.0 - Apps & Trends to Watch
Written by Guest Author / March 9, 2008 8:59 PM / 5 Comments
Editor's note: last week the Health 2.0 Conference was held in San Diego - see our review. Josh Rosenthal, founder of Sprigley, was also there and in this post he Continue reading »


Health 2.0 Conference Review
Written by Guest Author / March 5, 2008 12:15 PM / 3 Comments
Editor's note: this week the Health 2.0 Conference was held in San Diego, CA. The following is a review of the event, by Bill Allman from HealthCentral.com. Anyone who struggles Continue reading »


Web 2.0 Meets Medicine: Focused on Communication
Written by Richard MacManus / February 19, 2008 2:34 AM / 6 Comments
Bertalan Meskó from the excellent ScienceRoll blog has uploaded a presentation he gave recently at the Medicine Meets Virtual Reality conference. The presentation, embedded below, is a great overview of Continue reading »


Donate Spare Cycles, Cure Cancer
Written by Sarah Perez / January 10, 2008 10:41 PM
The World Community Grid is an organization whose mission is to create the "largest public computing grid benefiting humanity." Similar to the well-known SETI@Home project, individuals donate their computers Continue reading »


¡México Decide! - If Undocumented Immigrants Could Vote for the US President
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / January 2, 2008 11:20 AM / 8 Comments
There are a lot of websites where you can share information and discussion about the forthcoming US Presidential election - but ¡México Decide! may be the most interesting one I've Continue reading »


A Health 2.0 Overview, Through the Eyes of a New Diabetic
Written by Richard MacManus / November 26, 2007 7:36 PM / 38 Comments
Last Monday I found out from my doctor that I have Diabetes (probably Type 1; I need more tests to confirm), which basically means high blood sugar. It was quite Continue reading »


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