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Google Shared Stuff

Google has launched a new tool to share stuff with your friends. This looks like a social bookmarking tool. Anyway checkout this service at http://www.google.com/s2/sharing/stuff

To know more about this service, checkout Google Help page.

PeerClip - Social Bookmarking for Doctors

I got an email from Scott McQuigg, CEO of PeerClip today morning that they are going to launch a social bookmarking tool exclusively for Doctors at the Health 2.0 conference in San Francisco (9/20). Scott McQuigg is a respected healthcare information industry veteran.

From PeerClip website

A simple online tool that enables physicians to organize, share, discuss and discover relevant medical information.

Using PeerClip’s “research assistant” tool that integrates easily into any Web browser, physicians can “bookmark” any type content, including journal articles, blogs, podcasts and videos. Bookmarks are conveniently stored online for easy access in a central location, creating a personal homepage of relevant medical information. Physicians also can organize, keyword tag, rate and share bookmarks.

The PeerClip “research assistant” also provides physicians with at-a-glance information on articles that their peers have tagged and rated as useful. The combined ratings and tagging of all physicians helps the PeerClip member quickly find the information he or she is looking for. Additionally, the PeerClip “research assistant” also recommends other relevant information based on the member’s profile and interests. The simple act of member participation guides the recommendations as well as the member’s discovery while browsing.

Physicians also can invite peers to join the network as well as create personal online peer networks in order to track future bookmarks and comments by peers or Key Opinion Leaders across the PeerClip community.

Here is a quick snapshot of how PeerClip works:

1) Using PeerClip, physicians can click a button in their browser tool bar to store their favorite online articles, blog postings, podcasts and videos on a personal home page for easy future reference.

2) Physicians can also view bookmarks, comments and ratings on content their peers have bookmarked in PeerClip.

I will drop more comments as and when I receive the beta invitation.

Draw Anywhere

DrawAnywhere is an online diagramming website, where you can draw, modify and share flowcharts and other diagrams, with the look & feel of a desktop application. It runs on any browser with Flash 9 installed. There is no need to download and install any custom software. It runs entirely on the web, and thus it is an always-on-access-anywhere solution. It meets all your diagramming needs without installing, maintaining and purchasing expensive software.

via Amit

Yahoo Mash

Yahoo Mash is a new approach to social networking that brings your friends together and keeps things interesting. If at all Yahoo can clone some of the features of Myspace, Facebook and Orkut, it can easily position itself in the Top 5 social networking websites in the Internet World.

Yahoo Mash comes with lot of modules like Flickr RSS, Ego Boost, Common Friends, MyMoshLog2, Blog Module (RSS 2.0), Asteroids, Astrology, PimpMyPet, Hover, Kaleidescope, Guestbook, and My Stuff to play with. People can also edit each others page.

Yahoo Mash is invite-only right now. Please drop your email in the comments section to get an invite.

The last two Yahoo application which impressed me are Yahoo Pipes and Yahoo Mash. Keep it up Yahoo!

Thanks to Ashish of PluGGd.in, for sending me an invitation.

Extract and reuse content from any website

Dapper is a service that allows you to extract and use information from any website on the Internet. For those familiar with web services, you can think of Dapper as an API maker. For the rest of you, Dapper allows you to build web applications and mashups using data from any website without any programming.

Buy & Sell Engagement Rings

These days, an estimated 50% of marriages end in divorce. So what happens after the divorce? What do you do with the ring? When you turn around and sell a ring, you are taking a big loss. The price you will get for the ring will be sharply discounted from what was originally paid. In most cases, you will only get 25-35% of the purchase price and that´s if you are lucky.

I Do...Now I Don't can help solve the "what do I do with the ring?" scenario. We will help you sell your ring at the price that it deserves!!
Posting your ring is FREE of charge.

A great idea to do business!

40 Unusual Websites you should Bookmark

MakeUseOf lists some original undiscovered web services which should saved in our bookmarks.

Create Books

Mixbook.com allows you to create books with your friends and family about memorable events, the everyday moments and all the things that are important in your life. You can collaborate with others to design custom books that we will print and ship right to your door - for you to keep or to give as a gift! Mixbooks can be shared online or as coffee-table quality printed books.

Easily control your expenses

Gastus is a free online tool that lets you to track your daily expenses.

Life Online

You don't need any personal computer as you can manage your life online with these apps. If you wanna do business online, then try these apps.

Scribd - Put your Documents Online

Scribd lets you publish and discover documents online. It is like a big online library where anyone can upload. Scribd makes use of a custom Flash document viewer that lets you display documents right in your Web browser. There are all sorts of other features that make it easy and fun to publish, convert, embed, analyze, and read documents.

Part of the idea behind Scribd is that everyone has a lot of documents sitting around on their computers that only they can read. Scribd unlocks this information by putting it on the web.

Using Scribd, I embedded the above document 100 Linux Tips & Tricks into my blog post.

Track Your Goals

Joe's Goals is a simple yet powerful tool to make tracking your goals the easiest part of accomplishing them. Use the simple single page interface to setup daily goals and track them with just a click. Watch your daily score to gage your success and use negative goals (or vices) to confront and overcome bad habits that finally need to get the boot. Share your success with your friends and family or post your personal score badge to your blog or MySpace page. Add as many Goals as you want and update them all from a single interface.

Visual Search Engine

Like.com is a visual search engine, where the contents of photos are used to search and retrieve similar items.

Doctor World

Its like a digg for Doctors. DoctorWorld.NET is a medical media democracy. It is all about user powered content. Everything is submitted and voted on by the DoctorWorld.NET community. It's a place where people submit, share, vote and promote medical stories and websites.

DoctorWorld.NET is a site where you can share whatever you find interesting on the web with people who value your opinion (whether you know who they are or not), and where you can also find what's interesting from people whose opinion are important to you - whether they know who you are or not.

Everything on DoctorWorld.NET is submitted by DoctorWorld.NET users, and after they submit a story, website, etc. other people will read it and give it a thumb up or down. If that story receives enough positive votes, it is promoted to the front page.

Join DoctorWorld.NET

Link directly to quotes in Web pages

Paste a chunk of text and the URL of the page containing the text on citebite and in return get a link that opens directly to your selection and highlights it.

Free Live Web Conferencing

Vyew is a web 2.0 service which will help people to do free web conferencing. This seems to be interesting as it brings a new dimension to online collaboration. It offers a quick and easy way to get people online to facilitate a discussion. Here is the product review exercept from its website.

Vyew is a next-generation online collaboration and web conferencing service that brings people and content together. With Vyew you can host LIVE conferences and work collaboratively on content asynchronously over time, ANYTIME.

Inside Vyew you can author new content and collaborate with PowerPoint, Word, Excel, and PDF files, plus audio, video and images. You can also stream live or capture what’s showing on your desktop. Built-in text chat and FREE teleconferencing make live collaboration sessions highly productive.

Content in Vyew is automatically saved in "VyewBooks". VyewBooks can be shared in real-time or left ‘Always On’ for collaborators to review, edit or comment on anytime – even when you're not present. You can also publish read-only versions of your VyewBooks anywhere on the web! You can create multiple VyewBooks - saving them by topic, version or audience - and invite select persons to specific VyewBooks. VyewBooks can be switched between on-demand, and it's easy to track activity within your VyewBooks over time.

Vyew works in under 10 seconds and is entirely web-based. There's no software to download and install – all you need is a Web browser and the free Flash plug-in which most computers already have. And Vyew is FREE to use as long as you like – there’s no limited time trial period. Simply register for FREE and you’ll be given immediate access to Vyew’s rich shared workspace and tools.

Social Networking for Doctors

A Social Network is a social structure made of individuals which are tied by some specific type of relations like profession, idea, vision etc., Social Networks play a critical role in our daily lives.

There are many Advantages of joining a Social Network Website

1) You can meet doctors with common interests

2) Free Flow of Ideas

3) Finding a business partner

4) Personal Branding

5) Personal Marketing

6) Exchanging Medical Knowledge

and so ...on...

Social Networking is popularized by websites like Myspace, Facebook, Socify and Orkut.

In this post, I collected all Social Networking websites related to Doctors and not general purpose social networking websites like Myspace etc.,

Social Networking - Doctors

1) Sermo.com

Description : Here, physicians aggregate observations from their daily practice and then - rapidly and in large numbers - challenge or corroborate each others opinions, accelerating the emergence of trends and new insights on medications, devices and treatments. You can then apply the collective knowledge to achieve better outcomes for your patients.

Comments : The American Medical Association teamed up with Sermo to create a Web-based professional networking community for physicians.

2) DoctorsHangout.com

Description : DoctorsHangout is an exclusive Friendship and Social Networking website for Doctors and Medical Students. As a member, you'll be able to share your videos, photos, mp3s, and thoughts with other DoctorsHangout users.

3) StudentDoctor.net

Description : The Student Doctor Network (SDN) is an independent community of students, advisors, educators, and practicing doctors. Our membership extends from college students to practicing doctors in every field of healthcare, from allopathic medicine to veterinary medicine.

4) Doctor.VG

Description : The explosion in use of the Internet through personal computers helped us to share the medical knowledge with ease. The Internet allows us to access a wide range of information almost instantaneously at any time of the day or night and from anywhere in the world. This website is a service to the doctor community. We are here for Doctor .VG members to discuss the art of practicing Medicine. We are here as a forum for the members to share and gain knowledge in the field of Medicine. This website is run by a group of doctors on a voluntary basis. The site is non-commercial and although moderated, allows free discussions and exchange of ideas. At Doctor .VG Forum, every Doctor can get access to sum total of all medical knowledge around the world.

5) Healtheva.com

Description : Healtheva was started to improve communication flow in the life sciences area. Using Healtheva, members can find other doctors or researchers, keep track of colleagues met at conferences, and collaborate on projects with others. In addition, members can upload documents, evaluate and discuss issues in the forums, or start a blog. With increased information flow, together we can improve innovation and knowledge in science and healthcare.

6) DoctorNetworking.com

Description : This is the premier professional networking site for physicians and other professionals in health care. You can Enlarge professional network, Discuss medical topics, Ask and answer medical questions, Post and find medical jobs & Get to know more friends & colleagues.

7) Relaxdoc.com

Description : RelaxDoc.com is a private, online community created exclusively for physicians. It is a highly selective portal for physician-pertinent content, offering physicians the opportunity to network, find information and access services that meet both their professional and personal needs.

8) Tiromed.com

Description : Tiromed is a professional knowledge network exclusively for students of medicine and physicians. The purpose of this network is to facilitate communication not only between peers at the same academic and professional level, but to allow communication between all levels.

9) SocialMD.com

Description : SocialMD is a great new way to network with other physicians. Whether you are a medical student, resident, fellow or physician you will find that SocialMD is a great way to meet and network with other medical professionals.

10) ClinicalVillage.com

Description : ClinicalVillage.com was created to give you the ability to communicate with other clinicians and build an online community where you can share your clinical and life experience with colleagues, ask and answer questions, blog about your current hot button issues, find old college or med school friends, or make new ones. This site depends on you for it’s content and direction. It’s your community, please help build it. Remember, this site has no sponsorship or any other ties to industry.

11) MedicSpeak.com

Description : MedicSpeak is a powerful networking site for Physicians, Biomedical Researchers, Medical/Biomedical Students. The objective is to enhance communication, collaborations, exchange of ideas and sharing of knowledge. Keep in touch with your mentors, colleagues and students. Create clubs and invite people who share your interests.Upload videos about your lab, surgical procedures etc. Have fun!

This is not a comprehensive list of all Social Networking websites for Doctors. If you come across a website which is not included in the above list, please drop a comment to this post and I will include this as early as possible.


Update on 06 June 2007

David Rothman writes on his blog, "Dr. Karuturi also mentions Doctor .VG and the Student Doctor Network. Respectfully, I cannot agree with with Dr. Karuturi that these are social networks in the way that (for example) MySpace or Facebook are social networks. Online Bulletin boards and forums have been around for a long time, and I think what separates online “social networks” from online forums and bulletin boards is that they include tools by which members manage relationships within the network- not just communications."

I do agree with David Rothman that Forums like www.doctor.vg and forums.studentdoctor.net are not social networks in pure terms. When you consider the broad idea of Social Networking, you can include any tools which help us to network socially. I do consider forums as the ancient social networks of Internet as they allowed us to meet new people and interact with them. Now a days Forums are giving us a profile page where you can add your pics, join groups and also create a blog. So you can observe that new forum 2.0 concept is more inclined towards a social networking approach.


References
1. Wikipedia
2. David Rothman Blog

Image Source : Sermo

Web 2.0 in Healthcare

John Sharp presented Web 2.0 in Healthcare at the conference of Northern Ohio Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society in Cleveland. You can download the presentation in a PDF file here.

Doctors need to understand Web 2.0 and its ramifications in their practice. We can contribute to the medical world by sharing our clinical experiences on blogs and videos on web 2.0 websites like Youtube.

via Clinical Cases

Web 2.0 Companies List

Here is an exhaustive list of almost all Web 2.0 companies.