Search engine giants Google have progressed another step on their plans to dominate, well, just about everything, with the launch of Google Health, a health information service that combines their high tech search technology with a user’s online personal health records.
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Category: Web 2.0
PM Gordon Brown Launches YouTube ‘Ask The PM’ sessions
Gordon Brown. perhaps the least dynamic PM since John “yawn” Major, is looking to get down with the Web 2.0 Krew and get all interactive on our PCs.
In an attempt to attract younger voters, the PM is launching an online version of prime minister’s questions, promising to respond to video clip questions sent in via the Downing Street YouTube website.
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The UK Hearts Mobile Social Networking
Accessing social networking websites on your mobile is apparently the “next big thing” according to the spods at Neilsen Research, with UK users leading the European vanguard.
Their research has revealed that 1.7 per cent of UK mobile phone subscribers (that’s 810,000 users) have used their Internet enabled handsets to visit popular social networking sites like Facebook, Bebo and MySpace during the first quarter of this year.
Third Of UK Surfers Using Online Banking
In spite of endless security scares, and reports of dire service, it seems that us Brits are just loving that online banking thing, according to new research from online stat-shufflin’ dudes Comscore.
Their figures for January 2008 show that nearly 11 million users connected to at least one online banking service, adding up to around 33 per cent of the total UK online population.
ITN Launches News And Music YouTube Channels
Deftly spinning their baseball caps so they face the wrong way around, the hipsters at ITN have decided that it’s time to get down with the kids by launching two more ITN YouTube channels.
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Futuresonic: A Strong Lineup For May 08
Futuresonic, an Urban Festival of Art, Music & Ideas (as they describe it), is being held again this year.
It’s running 1-5 May in Manchester and is looking like a really interesting, rounded event.
Paramount Movie Clips On Facebook
There was a flurry of backslapping in the boardroom as Paramount Pictures pressed fleshed and sealed a deal with Facebook to become the first major studio to let clips from its huge back catalogue be made available on the Internet.
The partnership will see Los Angeles-based developer FanRocket launching, nay unleashing, the VooZoo application on Facebook, giving users access to footage from thousands of movies, including blockbusters like “The Ten Commandments” and “Forrest Gump.”
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Blogging Cheers You Up: Official. Ish.
If you’re feeling miserable and can’t get The Smiths off repeat play on your CD player*, get blogging (or log on to a social networking site) and you’ll soon be breaking out the Kylie, stripping off your top and whooping around the house with unbridled joy.
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UK Banks Offer Rubbish Online Service
It won’t come as much of a surprise to many customers, but a study of 52 leading European financial services companies found that UK banks and building societies deliver poor levels of online customer service.
The survey, commissioned by IBM and Kana Software, was conducted via a “mystery shopping study” of financial services companies in the UK and Germany.
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Google In Hush Hush TV Talks
Google has held talks with pop svengali Simon Fuller about a new joint venture that “could change the way TV is watched over the Internet”.
According to The Observer, details of the extra-plus hush-hush talks remain a closely guarded secret, but their tipster claims that the venture could kickstart a ‘revolution’ in the way that TV programmes are distributed.
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