Friends of the blog suggest a couple items of interest. 1. First, Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, writer of the ever popular Health Populi blog, has just published a report called The Wisdom of Patients: Health Care Meets Online Social Media. The report addresses issues around the new social networking sites that focus on health issues, but also [...]
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Healthcare Transparency In The News
May 4th, 2008 · Comments Off · Healthcare Markets
Tags:health care services·healthcare·Jane Sarasohn-Kahn·Mona Lori·Online Social Media·OutofPocket.com·Search engine·social media·social networking sites·social networks·technology startup
Signaling on Prosper
April 27th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Financial Markets, Information Design
Prosper, the peer to peer (P2P) lending site has an interesting problem: how to allow sellers of loans (aka borrowers) to effectively communicate their honesty, and their ability (or willingness) to repay any loans you might make them. Prosper allows multiple ways for borrowers to communicate this, as a look at a borrower’s page shows: [...]
Lazy Blogger Blog Post: Sunday Edition
March 23rd, 2008 · Comments Off · Information Markets, Lazy Blogger Blog Post
From The Economist, a lovely story about the value of social networking. First, some choice quotes. Both deals [Microsoft buying Hotmail and AOL buying Bebo], in their respective decades, illustrate a great paradox of the internet in that the premise underlying them is precisely half right and half wrong. The correct half is that a [...]
Tags:AOL·avid internet users·favourite web portal·fun new software·Microsoft·outside web·social networking·social networking now—can·social networking sites·social networks
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