Google

-Announced no desire to create content and will respect copyright.

It added face-blur technology to its Street View mapping serivce to protect privacy. Also speculation from Groves Media on whether this technology is more of a threat to civil liberties than CCTV.

Microsoft

-Looking to limit the kinds of computers that can use their low-cost OS, making them poor computers even if they could be better and still be as cheap.

-The Microsoft/Yahoo struggle is still ongoing – rumor has it that Carl Ichan is buying up stocks in Yahoo to replace board members
who will sell to Microsoft. Seems he is replacing board members but his plans are not evident

Twitter

-Poynter did a good roundup of the Twitter coverage of the Chinese earthquake. Also gave news of situation and stories in Burma.

-Twitterfone is a new app for mobiles that allows users to call and leave a voice message, which is translated to text and then posted on Twitter. Has issues like knowing how to end the call.

-Funny meme on Twitter is finishing this sentence: "When Obama wins, ..." Mine was "When Obama wins, college will be free and pizza will be subsidized"

Tech

-AP trying to get a button on the iPhone

-Effort underway to make clickstream tracking opt-in only in US. Marketers say it will be the death of their industry, but will most likely be like opting out of telemarketers.

-RIAA and MPAA still insist on using DRM on content bought to limit customer .Microsoft may also be planning to use a copyright 'cop' on the Zune for NBC. EA backs down on using DRM after user outcry at the idea

-Wikipedia to become a print edition, some debate about if the authors should get paid but Techdirt says it is non-controversial and they should not be paid.

-The FBI backs off of the Internet Archive – they wanted records of who used it now journalists can rest more at ease

-In the case against Ray Niro, writer of Troll Tracker blog, tried to prove he was not a "real" journalist and could not claim rights as one because he wasn't trained, was bias and that he was a corporate mouthpiece. Defense took apart the claim of what it really means to be a journalist.

Nimbuzz moving in on Skype's territory by making an app for both mobile and PC

Comcast bought Plaxo Inc., the social networking site. It turns online address books into online networks.

Other

Bush gave his first online interview Tuesday

Adrian Monck moved to Wordpress http://adrianmonck.com/

Social

Quarter of social net users are using their mobiles to be social online in the UK.

Social Networks boom in Europe, projected to reach 107.4 million people in 2012. UK expected to be largest with 27.1 million projected.

How marketers are using social media and how often

Employers continue to ban Facebook and other social media sites at work without recognizing the possible benefits from these sites.

A new social site for health issues is iMedix, and although in beta is pretty poor in the community department. The people on it now are rather 'happy-go-lucky' as is some of the content which may not be appropriate for the kind of users it wants to attract (people with health problems)

-Social Networking Sites are now allowing people to basically export their data to other sites: MySpace with a few other partnered sites, Facebook to anyone, and Google to anyone. Although Facebook is closing access to journalists and is looking to take off its 5000 friends limit.

Web

Two sites, Newstrust and Newscred, have set up a system to rate the credibility of Web sites. Buzz Machine says it won't work because there is just too much bad stuff and too easily discredited good stuff.

LiveNewsCamera.com allows viewers to see the news as it's happening, uncut. Pope speeches, Iraqi parliament hearings, and the like.

PRWeb now allows users to search for their press releases, although this may bring fewer balanced results in a search

Harry McCracken from PC World has left to start his own tech web site.

A lot of talk going on about Seesmic: consensus seems to be that it is rough now with great potential and it is hard to imbed on some sites.

MSNBC has created a new widget to scroll news and also two games to see main news headlines. Not sure if they're effective, but they're trying

Media

Time Warner may be looking to unload that do not transfer well to web (i.e. Coffee table mags)

Using video to truly enhance a story – not having it be a stand alone piece but a short snipit filled with things print can't show, like emotion.

The BBC will be using the Parliamentary channel coverage to instead cover the Olympics

From Thoughts of Nigel: 3 ways China should handle Western media – give access to reporters, don't freak out on negative coverage, and work on building a worldwide reputation

ReinventingClassifieds.com is looking to create a new business model to keep the classified section alive

Dutch free dailies are increasing circulation and so are free Italian papers

Irish paper group, River Media, appears to be in trouble and is looking for $16 million in help.

Guatemalan journalist, Jorge Merida Perez, shot dead in his home. He worked for the Prensa Libre.

From Adam Tinworth: The possibility of journalists being paid for increasing defined traffic online is being looked at, although still skeptically

The Liverpool Daily Post liveblogged the making of the paper Tuesday

The INMA drops "newspaper" from their title and adds "newsmedia"

Cablevision buys Newsweek over Rupert Murdoch, but it is also speculated Murdoch might end up with it in a few years anyways

Upcoming book Super Media has some chapters free online and discusses how journalism can save itself and the world through network journalism

Daily Mail site just pulled Flickr photos to write an article about fat pets without asking permission or attributing credit.

Boston NOW closed

Andy Bull writes on the blandness of sports journalism with the double speak and untruthfulness of players, teams and journalists

Wall Street Journal hires on chief technology officer, Sarabjit "Ruby" Walia

But London Evening just cut their media reporter, which is just the beginning of changes there they stated

In May of 2007, I wrote a post about Medicine 2.0. It dealt with my own exploration and understanding of the interesting place of medical and health care professionals, medical students, academics, researchers, medical leaders and learners, and patients along the arteries and veins of Web 2.0. I then proceeded with exploring further focusing more on its soul—media (focusing on the gifts of the new media) than its intimidating surname—2.0. However, I do not dislike the geeky appeal of the numeric assignment. It has a been a wonderful ride since—one of very open learning avenues and exchanging thoughts with so many interesting folks behind the writings and blogs. I am delighted to have expressed my humble voice this way about a discipline that is a lifetime endeavor. Though 2.0 is just one amongst its expansive collaterals, I speak and write proudly and with ever more curiosity about this revolutionary means of communicating and sharing medical knowledge.

Please welcome, one of my favorite reads on the medical web, Bertalan Mesko. He is a medical student at the University of Debrecen in Hungary. He is one of the active proponents in educating the rest of us about the endless possibilities of Medicine 2.0 among many other interesting things that he shares about in his blog, Scienceroll. Recently, he travelled from Debrecen to Los Angeles, New Haven, and New York and gave a presentation in a conference called Medicine Meets Virtual Reality and another one at Yale University. I am honored to share about this interview here today.

1. How did you get started with your takes on Web 2.0 in Medicine?

In January, 2007, I came across the online presentation of Vesselin Dimov who is a physician in Cleveland. I think he is the first person to write about this subject on his blog in the blogosphere and that presentation opened my mind. I knew these tools, services and websites provided by the realm of web 2.0 could change the way medicine is practised, so I started to write about this special field of medicine and launched a blog carnival under the name of Medicine 2.0 later in 2007.

2. Who coined the term Medicine 2.0? Do you consider yourself one of its pioneers?

I have no idea who used this term for the first time. Anyway, it's a hard question. I consider myself as a member of the „second generation”, because it wouldn't be fair to call myself a pioneer. If someone has mentors, he obviously cannot be a pioneer and I do have mentors like Ves Dimov, Attila Csordas, Scott Shreeve and Bob Coffield.

3. You recently presented at the Medicine Meets Virtual Reality Conference, would you care to share that experience from a professional, cultural, and general standpoint?

Wow, it should be quite a long answer. From a professional standpoint, it was good to see physicians and scientists are really open to these new opportunities of web 2.0. They tend to create a new form of medical practises (e.g. Jay Parkinson), they know how much these tools can ease their own job. And that's why they liked my presentation and the live Second Life simulation. From a cultural standpoint, that is a different world. The system of health care or medical education is totally different from ours. Your medical education is based more on clinical practise. And generally, the main difference, according to my experience, between the USA and our region is that if you have new ideas, you can go further more easily than your competitors.

4. How was the Yale University presentation experience? Can you share with us a sample question raised by your audience there?

I'm humbled to spend some days around Yale and to give a presentation at the School of Medicine of Yale was probably the best thing I've ever done. Sometimes everything works. I think I gave my best slideshow ever at Yale. The questions raised by the audience were focused on search engines. A major concern of the residents was that it's quite hard to find relevant and useful information in Pubmed in seconds. And when they have a patient and have to make a decision fast, they need to have a great tool with which they can get the right information in time because getting tens of thousands of results after making a search for a medical condition cannot be efficient. That's why we're currently working on a personalized medical search engine for medical professionals which I will present soon on Scienceroll.

5. What difficult issues (if any) have you encountered in developing your Second Life in terms of sharing medical information?

The medical exercises organized in Second Life by the Ann Myers Medical Center will never be as realistic as real medical education. But educating or learning without geographical borders is just fantastic. I especially enjoyed learning from US physicians and discussing medical cases with Brazilian, German or English medical students. In this virtual world, we have all the tools to educate interactively (descriptions, animations, simulations anbd reliable websites). The only concern I still have is about credibility. We have to ensure all of the visitors that we're real physicians and medical students. That's why I will construct soon a page for listing our credentials and any kind of data regarding our professional life.

6. In your opinion, does SL have an imminent future as a tool or even a venue for medical education?

Second Life was centered around casinos and entertainment in the past. But as casinos were forbidden, we have now the space and opportunity to focus on education. I think the virtual world has an educational golden age nowadays. So yes, even if most of people think it has no future, I'm absolutely sure about it's future role in medical education.

7. Do you have anything to say about the tide of social media (networking sites like within3, iMedix) in relation to medicine? Can you share a personal thought or two regarding the role of this new media (digital, web, internet) in medicine at present? And your thoughts about the future?

I'm pretty sure this new kind of media will play a major role in the future of medicine. With these community sites, not just the physician-physician interaction becomes easier (e.g. Sermo.com), but doctors can communicate with their patients in a more efficient way. It's not about making a diagnosis on-line, but making contact faster with patients. I plan to work as a geneticist probably in a personalized genetic company and I hope I will not only be able to tell my patient about their own genetic background but to show them some reliable and useful resources where they could find even more information. Web can be the best friend of a physician if used in the right way for the right purpose.

8. What do you hope to achieve in the long run or advocate for with your work at Scienceroll?

It was only a blog with 20 readers, now it has more then 1500 readers a day. My aim is to become one of the most reliable resources of web 2.0 and medicine. I would like to present my slideshow at more and more conferences to show physicians this new world of web. That's why I have already given slideshows at several local clinics and departments and I took a journey to the US. I also would like to be a good genetic blogger to become a good geneticist. I have a more than normal passion for personalized genetics and I'm pretty sure my future will totally be dedicated to this field of medicine. So blogging or writing about web 2.0 and medicine is just my hobby.

10. How do you balance your time as a medical student and as a successful medical blogger?

First, I'm not a good sleeper, second I'm enthusiastic about my blog. I just love blogging and informing my readers about the most recent improvements of web 2.0 and medicine or genetics. I also like interacting people from around the world and getting many e-mails, suggestions and tips. Blogging can totally change your career. I feel lucky and try to encourage others to start their own blogs. So back to the question, during the day I'm a medical student and this is my top priority, of course. But during the night, I browse the net, organize my web projects, etc. Writing blog posts became one of the most important tasks in my daily routine.

Wonderful!

Here is his most recent slideshow presentation. In a few clicks, you will be provided with awareness and some brilliant synthesis of knowledge snippets from many roads, scattered points, nooks, and crannies.

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Thank you very much, Berci, for your time and generous attention to this interview. All the best in your endeavors!

Reuters report about Dr. Howard Stark, a physician with a unique practice. In the same article, it shows a photograph of a smiling man in front of the computer. And the reason for the smile?

Stark has moved most of his practice, based in Washington, onto the Internet and he couldn't be happier. Since he started his Web-based service two years ago, he has received 14,000 e-mails.

And yet, he feels more like an old-fashioned family doctor in a small town than a modern, harried physician.

"That's 14,000 phone calls that we did not have to answer and that patients did not have to make," Stark said.

He does not charge for answering an e-mail. "You have to come in one time a year for an annual exam," Stark said.

Dr. Stark's is another example of this big "office move" or "expansion." The inclusion of media in medicine or for his take, his medical practice. Another foot forward, another example of this next page, it is interactive. Very much like Dr. Jay Parkinson in Brooklyn, New York? Could be.

What of questions about personal service?

He also gets updates on patients' personal lives.

"People say how impersonal e-mail is. No way. It is so personal because I can hear what is going on with the kids," Stark said in an interview at his otherwise ordinary office.

"It keeps me a lot closer to what is going on with my patients," he added.

He gets a few laughs too.

The rest is free -- prescription refills, quick questions about medication, even questions about unusual stings.

"What do I get? A picture of the scorpion that bit the patient in Belize," Stark laughed. "I said, 'it would have been better to send me a picture of your leg.'"

Is it the potential avenue, potentially a solution to the variety of growing issues of health care?

Health experts, the U.S. government, labor unions, employers and average citizens all agree the U.S. health care system badly needs improvement.

So what inspired him to shift his practice this way? Airlines!

The idea came to him while booking a flight.

"I was sitting here and making a seat assignment to go to Miami. And I said, 'why is it I can make a seat assignment four months in advance and my patients can't book a half-hour appointment?'" he said.

How sweet it is...?

"I feel like I have taken 21st century medicine back to being more like the old-fashioned physician who knows how your family is doing."

Exciting stuff continue to unfold. Technology is being explored. Information and communication enhanced. More and more are willing to adapt and explore the many many possibilities of the current realm of the web.

Stark contacted a couple of friends with Internet experience and they designed DoctorsOnTheWeb (http://doctorsontheweb.net/), a site that lets any doctor do what he is doing. So far, three other doctors have signed up to use the site, he said.

More importantly, what of patient's privacy concerns?

The system works like a bank's Web site. To avoid putting confidential information in e-mails, patients work on a secure server. If Stark wants to contact them, they get an e-mail merely directing them to pick up a message at the password-protected site.

It allows patients to ask about their health as issues arise, instead of waiting for the annual exam. "If you have any questions, it's so nice to shoot an e-mail," Stark said.

One of the many points of concern about this new wave of practice, what of the quality of his care for his patients?

Stark stresses that he does not make medical decisions based on an e-mail.

Read the rest of this news here. A must. There is some kick there about the thorny insurance again. Then again, as I have supposed above that this is quite similar if not the same model as Jay Parkinson's. Thus, a possible solution to the uninsured as well.

ZocDoc

Speaking of instant doctor's appointments, here is some fun news from Mashable.

ZocDoc is an online appointment tool for searching for doctors and scheduling appointments as easily as making a restaurant reservation for dinner online. The company launched early last autumn in the New York city area, focusing initially on dentists.

Nearly 6 months later, ZocDoc has about 50 dentists that have signed on board to try out this free scheduling service, and is now ready to roll out its tools for doctors as well, beginning Feb 14th. When I first spoke to Cyrus Massoumi and Dr. Oliver Kharraz prior to the launch about its upcoming expansion, and was anxious to hear about how the company had grown in these past few months. “It’s all been organic,” Massoumi said. “Doctors are approaching us, asking when we’ll be ready to add them to our site.”

iMedix

And, our dessert for today, yes, another networking site. But wait, networking for those seeking medical information. Please welcome the newly launched, iMedix.

Here's Techcrunch's account of this nifty new social networking site.

iMedix is a social search engine focussed on healthcare that has raised $2 million from angel investors. When you type in a search term, an auto-completed list of health and medical terms pops down to help guide your search. Type in “toe,” and it suggests “wound of toenail,” “tingling toe” “broken toe,” “blue toes,” “absence of toe,” and “hammer toe,” among others. Along the side column are profiles of iMedix members who may be interested in health topics related to the search. In this case, “sport injuries.” If the iMedix members are online, you can start a chat with them. If they are not online, you can send them an e-mail.

This ends today's blog of epic proportions. ;-)

Related
—Media In Medicine: What of the Insurance Companies & Other Issues?
—"How Web 2.0 is Changing Medicine", an addendum
—Media In Medicine: More Than Mending The Broken
—2.0 in Medicine and Definitely Beyond

Upcoming—Media In Medicine: I Love Film.

Imedix همونطور که گفتم یه سایت پزشکیه و اجازه میده که با کسانی که بیماری خاصی رو داشتن ارتباط برقرار کنید و یا با کسایی که بیماریشون مداوا شده ارتباط برقرار کنید و ازشون شیوه درمان رو لایو بپرسید.! J و نقطه ی قو.تش هم سوشال بودنش هست چون اجازه میده:

1-       بدونید که چه کسانی آنلاین هستند(مثل فیس بوک)!

2-       اطلاعات کاربری دیگران رو ببینید(باز مثل فیس بوک)

3-       فرستادن پیغام به کسایی که تو اون سایت عضو هستند(مثل فیس بوک)! :cool:

 برای ثبت نام تو سایت هم اطلاعات رو فکر کنم درست وارد کنید بهتر باشه مثلاً اسمتون ،مذکر یا مونث بودنتون،سنتون ، کشور و ماه تولد و... و بعد اگه دوست دارید هر کدوم از اینها دیده نشن میتونید تو تنظیمات درستش کنید(مثل فیس بوک و تویتر) خوب به یه آواتر و ایمیل هم نیاز دارید و بعد باید فیلد رو پر کنید(به چه چیزی علاقه دارید) که به شما کمک میکنه که بتونید افرادی دیگه رو به به اون موضوع علاقه دارند سریع پیدا کنید.!(جالبه نه؟)

به نظرم این بهترین سایت واسه پیدا کردن و حتی درمان بیماری های مختلف میتونه باشه ! من که بهش ایمان آوردم. :cool:

سایت imedix: www.imedix.com

منبع : cybernet با کمی دخل و تصرف!

مطالب مرتبط :

شما سالم زندگی نمیکنید!

پ.ن : من نمیدونم  این دولت چی میگه میدونید که الان دو سه روز که دیگه نمیتونم آن شم آخه میگن کابلی که زیر دریای عمان بوده(فکر کنم) پاره شده بعد ایرانی ها گفتن که این موضوع ربطی به ایران نداره ولی بعد یه مدت مثل اینکه کابل سوم هم پاره شد و اینترنت ایران هم دچار اختلال شد من تو این چند روز اینترنت داشتم ولی سرعت بیش از اندازه پایین بود و نمیتونستم آن بشم الان هم که آن شدم سرعت اینترنت 19 کیلو بیت! برا شما هم همینطوره من که داشتم تو گوگل ریدر فید دودردو رو میخوندم دیدم اینترنت خیلی ها دچار این مرض شده !حتی چند روزه به ایمیلم سر نزدم به خاطر همین نتونستم مطلب بنویسم!

پ.ن : این پست هم تقدیم به خانم کوچه باغ و دکترها م(ج/ز)یدی (دیگه کسی رو نمیشناسم که تو این مایه ها باشه مثلاً یا پزشک یا دانشجوی پزشکی و... باشه)

آپدیت: گفتم این هم بشه پ.ن دیگه من و زنده نمیزارید! بخاطر همین کردمش آپدیت! اول میخواستم یه پست راجع به افزونه هایی برای بهتر شدن جمیل بدم بعد یادم افتاد که کامیار این کار رو زودتر کرده(نمیدونم چرا همیشه بین من و کامیار این اتفاق میفته! فکرای بد هم به سرتون نزنه ماها از منبع خاصی استفاده نمیکنیم و همش هم ترجمه نمیکنیم) و تازه از اونی که میخواستم بنویسم هم بهتره .

لینک 1:  با Greasemonkey جیمیل خود را متحول کنید

لینک 2: بهترین اسکریپت های Greasemonkey برای Gmail ۲

اگه دلتون خواست مشترک فید صبحونه بشید: http://feeds.feedburner.com/soboone

Le 18 janvier 2008, s'est tenue à San Francisco, la première édition des Crunchies Awards, sortes d'oscars des nouvelles technologies, organisés entre autre par l'excellent blog techcrunch.com.

L'award de la meilleure start-up 2007 revient au réseau social santé iMedix.com.

iMedix.com est une société fondée courant 2007, qui a pour vocation de faciliter la recherche et l'échange d'informations sur la santé en se basant sur le principe du réseau social, ici composé de patients déclarant dans leur profil, un intérêt pour tel ou tel maladie ou autre thème "santé" (voir le nuage de tags).

iMedix sera très certainement boosté par ce prix dans son objectif de devenir "le" réseau social santé n°1 et met d'ores et déjà en avant son rôle de media de choix pour les industries de santé vers une audience hautement ciblée.

A noter parmi les nominés dans la catégorie "Best consumer start-up" le service d'analyse génétique grand public 23andme.com, qui repart bredouille (c'est finalement le service de messagerie instantanée en ligne meebo.com qui l'emporte dans cette catégorie).

Et enfin l'award de la meilleure start up "internationale" (il faut comprendre non-US) revient aux frenchies netvibes.com ! bravo !

זמן טוב לחדש את הכתיבה בבלוג.

זמן טוב כי אני מאמין שעולם ה-רפואה 2.0 הפך להיות מספיק בשל על מנת לעמוד בזכות עצמו.

היו לי לפתע הוכחות מהשטח . קיבלתי תגובות שהלכו והתרבו לגבי פוסטים שכתבתי לפני מספר חודשים.

עולם ה-רפואה 2.0 הלך והתעצם. הלך והתחזק בעולם ועל כן החלטתי לחזור ולהיות לכם ובשבילכם ה"שער" לעולם זה המכיל תחומים כה רבים ומעניינים.

אני אישית בחודשים האחרונים בהם לא כתבתי כאן, הייתי פעיל מאוד בתחום הנסקר.

הבלוג שלי בעברית הלך והתפתח. כתבתי פוסטים רבים בנושאים מגוונים וקהל הקוראים הלך וגדל. כן, יש גם קוראים לא מעטים מישראל.

ביחד עם גיא חבר לדרך ולחיים, יזמנו והקמנו את

Medical 2.0.com

בשלב הנוכחי זהו  Directory  לעולם ה- Health 2.0 .

בעתיד הלא רחוק מקווים להמשיך ולשדרג אותו במאפיינים שונים ומגוונים.

אף כיום הוא מרכז תוכן משמעותי בעולם ה-רפואה 2.0

ויש עוד רעיונות בדרך .

הספקנו גם להחשף לחברה ישראלית ראשונה בתחום זה. IMEDIX עליה נכתוב בקרוב.

מקווה ומצפה לתגובות רבות ולשיתוף פעולה ערני ומלא מצד כל מי שמעוניין ומתעניין בנושא.

התחום אינו מיועד רק לאנשי מקצוע בתחום אלא קשור ונוגע לכל אחד ואחד- לכולנו באשר אנו צרכנים, פציינטים, אנשי ובני משפחה , הורים ועוד ועוד...

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