Archive for February, 2008

CareSeek taps nurse community amid a glut of “me-too” Health 2.0 startups

Like any other Internet craze, Health 2.0 is plagued with a glut of startups that are all doing variations on the same thing — health-related search, social communities, and physician ratings/directories.
So how do startups make it when one site looks much like the next? Over at VentureBeat Life Sciences, we take a look at [...]

The Health 2.0 glut, and how one startup adapts

The Health 2.0 movement, as I’ve noted before, makes some big claims about the Internet’s power to transform the relationships between patients and doctors, hospitals, insurers and each other. Some of that is undoubtedly true, and there’s a fascinating amount of innovation going on in this area– helped along by a recent torrent of venture [...]

Yahoo’s MyBlogLog drifts up the activity stream, can it float against FriendFeed?

Yahoo’s blog community site MyBlogLog has launched a new acitivity stream (a list of activity from you and your contacts on a social site) portion of their site which they are dubbing “New with…”. While a nice addition for users of the site, this new feature simply doesn’t compare similar products from competitors — namely, [...]

The truth is always more complex: Google search ads doing just fine

A few days ago we were skeptical if the recent descent of Google’s stock price meant anything. A new report by comScore today suggests that the company’s most recent woes with regards to paid-click numbers may not be woes at all, but improvements in their business model.
The company’s stock suffered a huge drop three days [...]

Video: YouTube to get live video this year

YouTube co-founder Steve Chen says that live streaming video is something that YouTube has always wanted to do, and that this year, with the resources of Google, it is finally going to happen.
Take a look at this clip (above, at the last tag) with video blogger Sarah Meyer, featured in Meyer’s new online tech TV [...]