Tweet Twazzup – With the Web saturated with countless tools for enhancing your Twitter experience, Twazzup stands out as a unique way to search the most discussed topics. Like any standard Twitter search, Twazzup provides the user with a list of the most recent tweets on any particular topic that updates in real time. In [...]
Tweet Health Exchange – WebMD has expanded its already vast offering by creating its own social network, which it has named WebMD Health Exchange. Newly launched this month, Health Exchange will allow users to communicate with each other on the via the popular site and share their own stories and experiences with each other. The [...]
Tweet Health Tweeder – Unveiled last month, the Health Tweeder is a data visualization tool that aggregates tweets on a variety of health-related topics. The tool uses “petri dishes to culture cells of dialog,” and each “cell” represents a single tweet that was sent out pertaining to a certain topic, represented by its “petri dish.” [...]
Tweet DIDGET – In a time where businesses engaging in social media are concerned with the bottom line, it’s easy to forget just how useful these technologies can be, even for those who couldn’t care less about ROI. DIDGET is a blood glucose meter for children that can be plugged into a Nintendo DS gaming [...]
Tweet Thoora – Thoora is an online aggregator that gathers the most popular news stories from around the Internet. In addition to pulling together the stories, Thoora keeps count of how many traditional outlets and blogs have posted articles on the various topics and how many tweets per hour the topic is producing on Twitter. [...]
Tweet Google Buzz – Google Buzz is the newest offering from the Internet giant, and it invites users to “go beyond status messages.” Unveiled just this week in the inboxes of Google’s 176 million Gmail users, Google Buzz is a social media platform designed to compete with Facebook and Twitter. Buzz shares several things in [...]
Tweet bit.ly – In a social media world nearly saturated with URL shorteners, bit.ly has found a way to differentiate itself from the multitude of other options. The first advantage of using bit.ly is that it uses a small number of characters in its custom URLs. This allows users to maximize their 140-character allotment in [...]
Tweet E-patient – An e-patient is simply a healthcare consumer who uses the Internet to find health information. According to a recent study released by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, 61 percent of American adults go online to find health information. This number is up from 25 percent in 2000. (During this time, [...]
Tweet Alltop – Alltop is an Internet news aggregator that helps users keep up-to-date on any news topic in which they may be interested. The main page consists of several RSS feeds which cover a variety of the most popular sources of news and information on the Internet. This ranges from traditional outlets like the [...]
Tweet mHealth – mHealth, or mobile health, is the term that has been applied to medical and public health practice supported by mobile devices. mHealth applications include tools that can perform a number of different functions, including the ability to collect community health data, deliver healthcare information to practitioners and patients, provide emergency response systems [...]