Yahoo's Browser-Based Authentication is similar to Athens, the access management system currently used in the NHS.

Kim Cameron’s Identity Weblog Could the world be upside down? raises similar issues to health - the need for a user centric identity management model.

A friend of mine would like to start using the electronic transmission of prescriptions service provided by CfH. But she doesn't know where to begin. She's not a pharmacist. She works in a cash strapped PCT. She literally doesn't know who to talk to. She's quite IT savvy, has talked to her local IT people. But has got nowhere. She contacted her LSP a few months ago but no one got back to her. It all feels very remote.

It would be great if ETP was a web based service that people could easily subscribe to, with suitable security precautions. But it's not; my friend is in the dark, and can't benefit

Widgetbox: Directory of web widgets for WordPress, TypePad, MySpace and other blogs and web pages

The Allen Brain Atlas (ABA) is an interactive, genome-wide image database of gene expression in the mouse brain. A combination of RNA in situ hybridization data, detailed Reference Atlases and informatics analysis tools are integrated to provide a searchable digital atlas of gene expression. Together, these resources present a comprehensive online platform for exploration of the brain at the cellular and molecular level.

National Information Standards Organisation: Best practices for designing web services in the library context (pdf) An overview, at quite a basic level - "This paper has given an overview of the issues involved in implementing and designing web services that may be of use in the library environment. As web services become a more common tool for communication between applications, unforeseen library-specific uses may arise. The intent of this paper is to explain briefly some of the decisions involved in finding, designing, implementing, and using web services."

ScheduleWorld: "is an experiment in a new kind of rich Internet application, built on the foundations of open standards that enables you to access your data from virtually anywhere using a growing number of interoperable devices and software"

Carnegie Mellon has a web based statistics course as part of its Open Learning Initiative

pictures of the new Sony Reader. Could suit a white coat pocket?

Interesting update on Google Base

Scrapblog: "create stunning multimedia scrapbooks featuring your photos, videos, audio and a bunch of creative elements. We made Scrapblog drag-and-drop-easy so that everyone can tell their stories and share them online or turn them into high-quality photo books and DVDs. Best of all, it's free and there's nothing to download."

Zimki "is a JavaScript application development platform that enables you to produce web applications quickly, simply and with no upfront costs."

BBC NEWS: Boy, three, buys car on internet: "A three-year-old boy has used his mother's computer to buy a �9,000 car on an internet auction site.
Jack Neal's parents only discovered their son's successful bid when they received a message from eBay about the Barbie pink Nissan Figaro.
Rachael Neal, 36, said her son was quite good at using the computer."

Now that Belgian publishers have won their case against Google (for now at least - Google's appeal is to be held in November), Microsoft Live is illegal too

Google: chaos by design

Hear Iain Chalmers on the new BMJ podcast as well as the overview on NHS health policy.

The National Diabetes Audit (pdf) provides evidence of the gap between ideal and actual treatment of diabetes in the UK.

SocialText 2.0 has some good new features and blends wikis with (in-group) weblogs. The covert wikitext training module looks useful. The screencast provides an overview.

BMJ: a guide to recent changes in the management of the NHS. Provides an overview of the present government's approach to the NHS: "Far from the NHS being privatised, as critics of the government's reforms bitterly complain, it can just as plausibly be argued that medicine is becoming ever more a creature of the state. From inside the bunker, the policy may seem coherent and consistent, but from outside it looks like a patchwork of mutually contradictory ideas struggling for dominance."

Nick Carr: If IT isn't your business, get out of the IT business

zotero a web generation reference manager, coming soon. How is the competition doing?

Bandwidth is getting cheaper 30Mb/sec in some US cities. In the UK it varies from free to around £17/Mb. 8Mb/sec is available in some cities, but often only 1Mb/sec is available.

Danny Sullivan: Publishers have a problem with search engines Publishers are trying to monetize their web presence but find they are a bit late. The Belgian copyright issue highlights the problem publishers are having in coming to terms with search engines. It seems they may not understand how they work.

Danny Sullivan: Why Search Sucks & You Won't Fix It The Way You Think

If you're at a Chinese university that subscribes to the Wanfang article database this Firefox add-on will help direct you from Google Scholar references to the article in the database.

Tim Berners Lee: Intelligent Web requires co-operation - ZDNet UK News:
"Geospatial information is being seen to be exciting by the Web 2.0 crowd, with things like geotagging, and Google maps"... "all that was needed to build the Semantic Web was for existing databases to be exposed in standard formats."

On demand computing: 3TERA Grid Operating System for Web Applications "Our product, AppLogic, is the first grid operating system that runs and scales existing real-world web applications on grids of commodity servers. The breakthrough technology that enables this is called disposable infrastructure."

One concern with this overview of The Value of Computerized Provider Order Entry in Ambulatory Settings (pdf) is the vested interest of the financial sponsors - including McKinsey, Siemens, IDX, Cap Gemeni.

Science LibraryPad notes from ECDL on Google Books project at Stanford update - post has been withdrawn at the request of the author.

Intentional Web 2.0 programming with DENIM?

Google: mashups economy

O'Reilly: Using Microformats

Health 2.0 principle 4 - don't be afraid of open software such as Vista and Tolven

Patrick Rhone describes his way of Getting Things Done

If you have Flickr and need business cards then moo is worth a look.

The trouble with medical journals...

Techcrunch Windows Live Drive coming soon? an online file storage system from Microsoft.

Health 2.0 principle 3. Move from unplanned to managed care as far as possible. How? By using a care model approach such as this one, which has some evidence for its effectiveness. Worth reading: Michael Porter - refefining healthcare - here is a summary (pdf)from a presentation he gave this summer.

Grazr is a Javascript only, functionally rich, OPML based blog-roll/reader.

Loki builds location awareness using 'virtual gps' - not in Eurpoe yet however

Analysis of search in an online clinical laboratory manual Only the abstract freely available. Found in Informatics Review. which is an excellent source for health informatics.

See also OpenLaszlo "Legals": "'Legals' is an OpenLaszlo project to provide a single application environment that supports multiple deployment runtimes. OpenLaszlo 3.x supports Flash 7 and 8 now, but Legals will extend that reach to include DHTML as well as Flash 9. And with the necessary infrastructure in place, we anticipate further runtimes will be developed by the OpenLaszlo community."

dojo toolkit now 0.3.

Raym Crow: Publishing cooperatives: an alternative for non-profit publishers Publishing cooperatives — owned, controlled, and benefiting non–profit publishers — would provide an organizational and financial structure well suited to balancing society publishers’ twin imperatives of financial sustainability and mission fulfillment. Market challenges and structural constraints often render it difficult for small society publishers to compete individually. Publishing cooperatives would allow society publishers to remain independent while operating collectively to overcome both structural and strategic disadvantages and to address the inefficiencies in the market for academic journals. Publishing cooperatives can provide a scaleable publishing model that aligns with the values of the academy while providing a practical financial framework capable of sustaining society publishing programs.

Progressive fork department - news of an alternative to Wikipediacreated by one of its founders Citizendium "this will be a bottom-up, collaborative, distributed wiki project. It will not be a command-and-control, bureaucratic sort of project with which many academics are familiar. Academics should be aware of that before they sign on. They won't have the sort of authority they might be used to having; they will have to, indeed, collaborate as parts of a very large community (or so we hope)."

Salesforce.com previews Analytics and Dashboard Mash-Ups. The idea of freedom and flexibility at the enterprise level seems worth exploring.

Tech Trader Daily » Hitwise Says Google, Ask Gain Search Share in August; MSN, Yahoo Slip

Jatalla.com - Featuring the Most Powerful Search Engine on Earth: Your Brain I wonder if it will work?


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Nicholas Carr: Office generations: "It's been widely assumed, among the tech-forward Web 2.0 crowd, that it will be the end users who will drive the adoption of purely web-based office apps - and that corporate IT departments will be the obstructionists. I think it will actually play out in the opposite way."

Spaces could be a new metaphor for the user interface, if used on a per project basis, a bit like the rooms project that we never got off the ground last year. It might also, as here, be the basis for a multi-operating system user interface.

A few years ago Autonomy launched a product called Kenjin, along with some stirring hype. Using it produced hilariously inappropriate suggestions and it disappeared a few months later. Now a web 2.0 sort of Kenjin is on the tarmac, called System One, to be launched later this month. Maybe this time?

BusinessWeek Microsoft Brings the Works Online

ShareMethods - a browser based on demand document management system.

Intentional Programming: "In Intentional's world, instead of sitting down with subject matter experts, taking notes and going back to their integrated development environments to hustle code, the programmers and the requirement setters establish a mutual understanding over lexicon and context. PodcastThe lexicon could involve the types of actors in an application such as nurses, doctors, patients, handhelds, digital MRI equipment, databases, etc. The context could be a healthcare environment such as a hospital or mobile military triage unit."

Charles Simonyi: "Why does software need a revolutionary change? Because today it is a technology in crisis, where its complexity has far outrun our ability to comprehend it. It's next to impossible to understand what is going on in software whenever a program runs longer than a few hundred lines of code-and today's desktop software contains millions of lines. What we don't understand, we can't fix: 25 percent of commercial software projects are canceled, which meant $60 billion in losses in 2000 in the U.S. economy alone"

The BMJ is using RightsLink to provide copyright clearance for non research articles.

Heather Morrison and Andrew Waller: Open Access for the Medical Librarian (PDF) Published in Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association Volume 27, Number 3, Summer 2006, a journal which is itself Open Access it seems.

Netvibes

Computer Weekly: Microsoft to ship fully supported Ajax development product

World Internet Usage Statistics and Population Stats 16% of the world population has access to the Internet, ranging from 2.6% in Africa to 68% in North America

A wiki directory of Blogging Directors

The Talis LibraryMashUps winner is a suite of Google Gadgets

Never again: Microsoft Vista is still a mess

OpenID : an actually distributed identity system

"Authors increasingly cite webpages in medical and scientific publications, which can "disappear" overnight. The problem of unstable webcitations has recently been recently referred to as an issue "calling for an immediate response" by publishers and authors."WebCite "is an archiving system for webreferences (cited webpages and websites), which can be used by authors, editors, and publishers of scholarly papers and books, to ensure that cited webmaterial will remain available to readers in the future. If cited webreferences in journal articles, books etc. are not archived, future readers may encounter a "404 File Not Found" error when clicking on a cited URL."

Read/write Web: Webified Desktop Apps vs Browser-based Apps

Brian Kelly: Web 2.0: The Potential Of RSS and Location Based Services

Nicholas Carr "We're entering a transitional period - the hybrid phase - in which desktop apps gain increasing web functionality while remaining desktop apps. This transitional phase will likely last ten years. The pure web-based productivity apps popping up all over the place right now are interesting, as forerunners, but doomed."

a fairly detailed Amazon EC2 Review at Cast Blog

Collaboration Blog - Battle of the Virtual Offices

Windows Live Academic Search Blog hasn't been updated since April.

Podserve - "best of breed"

Live Documents - Web-enabling Microsoft Office

Approver: "Approver.com makes it easy for you to share documents and ideas with friends and colleagues."

Naggie uses the Blackberry GPS to provide location aware reminders. I didn't realise Blackberries had GPS.

Firefox Scholar

Due for beta release in Summer 2006, Firefox Scholar will help teachers, students, and scholars organize and cite materials they have found online. Comprised of a set of browser extensions, Firefox Scholar will allow researchers to recognize and capture metadata from online objects; collect documents, images, and citations from the web; and allow those materials to be sorted, annotated, and searched--all directly within their web browser window. Like the Firefox browser itself, Firefox Scholar will be open and extensible, allowing others who are building digital tools for researchers to expand on the platform.

Bruce Byfield: Online word processors: A hands-on comparison

Jungle Disk - another month... another penny

For the (soon to be) home worker Jungle Disk looks like a safe bet for backing up files.

Techcrunch: Very Early Look at Synthasite’s Ajax Website Builder

Hyperscope 1.0 answers the what's next question for Douglas Egelbart, co-inventor of the computer mouse.

O'Reilly Radar: "Harnessing collective intelligence is the principle that has opened the web 2.0 era, but data as the Intel inside is the one that will close it down.'"

From their website - www.ezmedicaloffice.com was the first-ever free web-based EMR, offered to physicians and other healthcare professionals. We have received many requests from our members to improve the services, expand the features of EZChart. We are listening and responding to the requests and inputs of our members.

Unfortunately, the improvements come with cost. We have no choice but have to apply a monthly subscription fee. We hope that you will understand our position.

What is the cost of EMR on current market? There's a wide range of estimates. The initial cost of an EMR is cost at somewhere between $15,000 and $30,000 per physician, and an extra 15 to 18 percent of the software cost for annual maintenance and updates. The total cost is $1,500 to $2,000 per doctor per month on an ongoing basis. One way being touted to reduce EMR costs is to use an application service provider. The monthly software-and-maintenance fee will range from $150 to $800 per doctor.

An argument for open source in health IT

TRIP search goes open source

IBM has contributed open source software for electronic health records

Healia - health search engine

Eric Morgan: Building the “next generation” library catalog

Sharon Housely: How to Improve RSS Feeds

JenSense: Microsoft adCenter

Here is a List of tools for the internal blogosphere from scale|free.

Interesting article on the DTI website. The CMS mentioned is due to be adopted by the Department of Health shortly.

Dean Gustiani has set up a Health Sciences Librarianship wiki

Health 2.0 principle 2: create bionic software - Tim O'Reilly - "I was talking about the idea of bionic software with Tom Shields of the Woodside Fund a few weeks ago, and explaining how I thought that the old dreams of artificial intelligence were being replaced by this new model, in which we are creating more intelligent systems by using humans as components of the application. Tom neatly summed up the paradigm shift: "AI becomes IA." ("Artificial Intelligence becomes Intelligence Augmentation.")"

Artificial Intelligence systems generally require a considerable investment in ontologies, knowledgebases, inference rules and interfaces, making it difficult. This post suggests another way might be worth exploring.

Computer Weekly: Norwich gets free Wi-Fi network

Mozilla Firefox 2 Beta 2 Release Notes - new features include enhanced RSS support.

Gary Price: Google Allowing Some Books for Offline Printing BUT Don’t Forget About Other Sources (Free)

Lawrence Lessig - academic texts issued under creative commons licence.

Jeffrey Veen: Making location simple