Google pilots patient medical records project March 4, 2008
Posted by Will in online tools, technology.Tags: Google, hospitals, medical records, privacy
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Guess what Google’s up to now! They’re setting up a pilot project with the Cleveland Clinic to house patient medical records in a secure site on Google. Patients will be in charge of their own records, and can electronically transfer their own records if they change doctors or hospitals, etc. From the announcements I’ve read, it’s not clear to me if patients can use the Google search interface to search and interact with their own records.
Here’s a Seattle Times article on it, which addresses privacy concerns
Here’s a Wireless Healthcare article
Here’s the Cleveland Clinic’s own announcement
I couldn’t find a Google announcement.
Microsoft tries to buy Yahoo (again) February 1, 2008
Posted by Will in online tools, technology.Tags: acquisition, buyout, Microsoft, monopoly, Yahoo!
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By now, most of you have probably heard the other big acquisition news story of the day. Microsoft has just announced another bid to buy Yahoo. And this time, they are hinting (if not threatening) to go directly to the stockholders, and simply buy the stock, if Yahoo management seems disinclined to accede to the buyout. The New York Times has an interesting analysis piece, and I’m sure it’s already all over the web and the blogosphere.
Amazon Buys Audible: big ideas for Kindle? February 1, 2008
Posted by lrobinson in online tools, technology.Tags: amazon, Apple, e books, Internet, kindle
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Interesting New York Times blog “Could Amazon and Audible Rewrite the Rules of Publishing?” Amazon is acquiring Audible.com and there is lots of speculation the next generation of Kindle readers may get an “upgrade” to allow audio books too.
Steve Jobs of Apple predicted DOA for Kindle when it came out since, in his words, “people don’t read anymore.” Sort of sounds like a spoiled sport. Though, there seems to be evidence that supports that theory.
Wowsa, this could mean big things for the Kindle and for reading. NYT blogger Brad Stone wonders “How about a service that allows you to seamlessly switch from reading a book on your digital device to listening to the same book read aloud as you get in the car, or if your eyes are tired, or if you simply want to hear a crucial scene acted out? And then to switch back to the printed page?”
Be sure to read the NYT blog comments. I hope that with Amazon’s seeming ambitions to get people to read again includes the perspective (and perhaps help) of the library community.
Wikipedia Usage January 3, 2008
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Wikipedia users
4/24/2007 | 
Report | Lee Rainie Bill Tancer
More than a third of American adult internet users (36%) consult the citizen-generated online encyclopedia Wikipedia, according to a new nationwide survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. And on a typical day in the winter of 2007, 8% of online Americans consulted Wikipedia.
mumbo jumbo web site names December 21, 2007
Posted by Will in online tools, technology, virtual life.Tags: web2.0 names naming web
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I’m sure you’re as confused as I am by all the Dr. Seuess-style web service names that pop up these days: Doostang. Wufoo. Bliin. Thoof. Bebo. Meebo. Meemo. Kudit. Raketu. Etelos. Iyogi. Oyogi. Qoop. Fark. Kijiji. Zixxo. Zoogmo.
You get the picture. David Pogue at the New York Times has written an excellent analysis of this trend.
Will
Personal Learning Plans & PageFlakes December 6, 2007
Posted by emiaukea in online tools, technology.3 comments
Before I was torn away to go to Chris’ farewell lunch I was participating in a very interesting WebJunction webinar, part of their ‘Learning’ series. Some of you know how intrigued I am with the idea of developing a ‘Personal Learning Plan’ and trying to encourage others to join me in the journey for themselves and also because I think we’ll all learn more an have fun in a group.
Now to the point…and that is to share this cool web tool I just heard about today called PageFlakes. It’s one of many tool/sites that use a technology called Ajax that lets you create a custom online ‘environment.’ Starting with their wizard and with a little extra (simple!) work on my part about half an hour I was all set-up with my own Start Page. I was able to drag and drop widgets around on the screen (called ‘flakes’) so I can see and access my Gmail, local news and weather, a calendar, several podcasts, a calculator and more! They even have a RSS reader if you have lots of blogs to keep track of.
Check it out! A few hints from my own experience — it’s not that obvious that you need to create an account to save your settings and get a unique URL. Once you do that (and verify your email address) you’ll be able to tell it where you live in your settings.
If you make your PageFlake public, make sure you ping me so we can see each other: my username is elizabeth.iaukea.
