I’m a few days late, however am very interested in the following:

Google Health is now publicly available

5/19/2008 12:55:00 PM
Posted by Marissa Mayer, VP Search Products & User Experience

Excerpted…

In terms of new products, we made Google Health publicly available. It offers users a safe and secure way to collect, store, and manage their medical records and health information online. How many of us have touched, or even seen, our medical records? In this day and age of information, isn’t it crazy that you don’t have a copy of your medical records under your control? You could use those records to develop a better understanding of your health and ultimately get better care. It’s your data about your own health; why shouldn’t you own and control it?

Back in February, I wrote about how Google Health will harness the power of the Internet to put users in control of their own medical records. Data will stay with you — if you change doctors, want a second opinion, if you’re traveling — and not stay siloed or stuck in files or databases that you can’t get to. To break down these information silos, we launched Google Health today with several partners and third party services already integrated. These partners are as committed as we are to solving this urgent need. Our flagship partners include everyday brand names such as Walgreens, Quest Diagnostics and Longs Drugs, to name just a few.

In addition to helping you get better control of your medical information, we’ve also put strong privacy policies in place to keep your information safe and private. (Read more about this on our public policy blog.) There’s a lot left to do in health — literally thousands of partnerships to forge and petabytes of data to move around — but we’re looking forward to hearing feedback from early Google Health adopters about our first step.

Unrelated to Google Health but in the interest of helping people get healthier, we launched our Go for Good campaign with the Cleveland Clinic. The Walk for Good iGoogle gadget encourages you to be good to yourself by walking regularly and tracking your progress. If you finish week 15 of the program by October 25th this year and have completed at least half of the total walking program by then, you can vote to tell us which of the health charities from our list should receive part of a $100,000 donation.

Link to Full Article and Video
Official Google Blog: healthcare
(Video: Google Health section is at 1:22 to 1:43 of 2H:10M total video time):

THOUGHTS, anyone?

From the Google Tech Talk series and although an overt oxymoron - why not cuddle up with your laptop and watch this great talk.

Speaker: Soren Gordhamer
Soren Gordhamer is an entrepreneur, author, and techie who explores the promises and pitfalls of living networked and connected in the technology age. He is the author of the forthcoming book, Wisdom 2.0: Stress Relief for the Creative and Constantly Connected to be published by Harper One in 2009. The book provides effective, time-tested tools and approaches for reducing stress and engaging the creative mind in this technology-rich world of emails, social networks, and cell phones.

This is something so cool that I want to share it with every person I know who researches anything.

Firstly - I can’t explain Google Alerts better than Jaime Mann who “alerts” me of new, cool tools all the time. But this one really kicks ass. Read Jaime’s explanation of Google Alerts here.

Basically, you type in to the home page of Google Alerts any keywords or phrase that you would like Google to alert you to if it’s mentioned in ANYTHING online. Read more »

Thanks to the “Information Super Highway” or the “World Wide Web” – the way we live is different, the way we buy things is different and anything you want – if you type it into a search engine - you can find. Or at the very least, you will learn something about it.

With Adwords, Google has enabled advertisers to, based on what a perspective client types into a search engine, deliver an advertisement for what the person is looking for at the exact, precise moment the person is looking for it, in a way that the person wants to see it. If they don’t want to learn more about your product, they simply don’t click on your ad. Read more »

Are you a small business that doesn’t use Google Adwords? Small businesses ought to Read more »

The best marketer of our time, Seth Godin, talking about how to sell to people who are listening: Read more »

My friend and I were online tonight and I showed him Wordpress and how awesome it is. He loved it, of course. He’s boot-strapping his company.

Then we looked up free logos because Read more »

iGoogle indeed. I google. Who doesn’t?

I can glance at my email, the weather, a calculator, quotes by Elanor Roosevelt and Martin Luther King, the calender and notes. All on one page. As my home page. I love it.

Oh and my other favorite feature, Google search.

And gmail is my email server - Google again.

Then I also check my adwords campaigns… you guessed it

What would I do without Google?

I could handle living on an island somewhere. Oops, I already do.