Tag Archives: health 2.0
Do It Yourself Genetic Testing – Are we prepared for the results?
24 Jan
In the coming era of consumer genetics, your DNA will have much to tell you about the biological bases of your health, your physique and even your personality. But will this knowledge really amount to self-knowledge? asks Steven Pinker in his article My Genome, My Self, which appeared in the January 11, 2009 issue of the Sunday New York Times.
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links for 2009-01-04
4 Jan- Samurai archery, an ancient sport, still thrives – Yahoo! News (tags: samurai)
- Tips and How-To’s: iPhone Music Management | The iPhone Blog(tags: iPhone)
- HOW TO: Track Gaza Using Social Media(tags: socialmedia Israel twitter)
- 10 Ways Twitter Will Change Blog Design in 2009 (tags: web2.0 socialmedia twitter trends)
- Exclusive: New Palm phone to have slide-down keyboard, large touchscreen (tags: mobile)
- 10 Mobile Social Networks to Check Out – ReadWriteWeb (tags: web2.0 socialmedia)
- Scientists discover true love – Times Online (tags: neuroscience)
- Nine ways to think yourself thin – Times Online (tags: health)
- Michelle Malkin » Who says conservative bloggers don’t do reporting?(tags: media)
- UCSF researcher Elizabeth Blackburn’s search for longer quality of life (tags: ucsf genomics aging mindfulness)
- CD: Messiaen, ‘Fêtes des belles eaux’(tags: music)
- Samuel Huntington and the Positivity of Power Thinking – NYTimes.com (tags: neuroesthetics neuroscience neuropsychology)
- Self-Taught Chef’s Hong Kong Eatery Earns Two Michelin Stars – WSJ.com (tags: moleculargastronomy)
- Why We Keep Falling for Financial Scams – WSJ.com (tags: neurofinance neuropsychology)
- Gadget of the Week: Rovio Mobile Camera(tags: gadgets video photography)
- Ten Business Predictions for 2009 – BusinessWeek (tags: predictions)
- Tech Trader Daily – Barron’s Online : Apple: Jobs Isn’t Sick, Says Argus Research (tags: apple gossip)
- The top 10 tech things that won’t happen in 2009 – MarketWatch(tags: technology predictions)
- Orwell, blinding tribalism, selective Terrorism, and Israel/Gaza – Glenn Greenwald – Salon.com (tags: Israel terrorism)
- Sarkozy: Hamas to blame for Gaza suffering – Haaretz – Israel News (tags: Israel Sarkozy)
- Can the IDF break Hamas’ fighting motivation? (tags: terrorism Israel)
Top 10 Web, Social Media and Tech Predictions for 2009
30 DecReadWriteWeb today released its annual list of social media, web and tech predictions for the year ahead. Here are my top 10:
1. iTunes adds social networking features.
2. Health web apps start getting attention from mainstream people and media.
3. Apps that do filtering, inferring and recommendation have a great year.
4. Twitter announces they have a plan to make money. They do.
5. New iPhone is released with video recording capabilities.
6. Facebook Connect becomes new de facto way to login to web sites.
7. 2009 will be like 2002 for raising money or exiting.
8. Streaming web video to the living room will go mainstream.
9. If Apple finally enables its push server, mobile social networks and geolocation enabled apps will become a major topic next year.
10. Amazon will further strengthen its position in the cloud computing market, by launching more of its Web Services and gaining more clients for existing ones.
Microsoft Examines Causes of ‘Cyberchondria’
28 NovA new survey from Microsoft suggests that self-diagnosis by search engine frequently leads Web searchers to conclude the worst about what ails them. John Markoff reported on the study in the November 25 issue of The New York Times. Microsoft's goal is to position its search service as a reliable health advisor. According to Ryen White and Eric Horvitz, the AI researchers who conducted the research, "directly tackling cyberchondria is an opportunity to leverage readily-available expertise in the information-retrieval and medical informatics communities in areas such as document ranking, user modeling, machine learning, and user interface design for the direct benefit of the many people turning to the Web to interpret common medical symptoms."
