Top Web 2.0 in Medicine 2008 

This post is a copy from a great wiki article wrote on the University of British Columbia Health Library Wiki.

 

Nine (9) groups or categories, seventy-five (75+) medical web 2.0 services of note in 2008. Not necessarily by importance, influence, utility or value – merely mentioned ‘most often’ by bloggers & traditional media

 

Academic science 2.0 (social networking) (8 services)

 

  1. BioCrowd - http://www.biocrowd.com/
  2. BioMedExperts - http://www.biomedexperts.com/
  3. LabRoots - http://www.labroots.com/
  4. MyExperiment - http://www.myexperiment.org/
  5. NatureNetwork - http://network.nature.com/
  6. phLab - http://phlab.org/
  7. ResearchGATE - https://www.researchgate.net/
  8. SciWeavers - http://sciweavers.org/

Bookmarking & infomanagement (10 services)

  1. Amedico - http://amedico.com/
  2. CiteMD - http://citemd.com/cms/
  3. CiteULike - http://citeulike.com/
  4. Connotea – http://connotea.org/
  5. Diigo - http://www.diigo.com/
  6. LabMeeting - http://www.labmeeting.com
  7. Mendeley - http://www.mendeley.com/
  8. Ologeez - http://ologeez.stanford.edu/
  9. PeerClip - http://www.peerclip.com/
  10. 2Collab - http://www.2collab.com/

Consumer health 2.0 (social networking) (13 services)

  1. CareFlash - http://www.careflash.com/
  2. Care2 - http://www.care2.com/
  3. Curetogether - http://www.curetogether.com/
  4. DailyStrength - http://dailystrength.org/
  5. Facebook – http://www.facebook.com/
  6. HealthChapter - http://healthchapter.com/
  7. HelloHealth - http://www.hellohealth.com/
  8. Inspire - http://www.inspire.com/
  9. PatientsLikeMe - http://patientslikeme.com/
  10. PsychCentral – http://psychcentral.com/
  11. RevolutionHealth - http://www.revolutionhealth.com/
  12. SecondLife – http://secondlife.com/
  13. SoberCircle - http://www.sobercircle.com/

Medicine 2.0 (social networking) (6 services)

  1. Doc2Doc - http://doc2doc.bmj.com/
  2. DoctorsHangout - http://doctorshangout.com/
  3. MedicalPlexus – http//medicalplexus.com/
  4. MedXCentral - http://medxcentral.ning.com/
  5. Ozmosis - http://ozmosis.com/
  6. Sermo - http://www.sermo.com/
  7. SocialMD - http://www.socialmd.com/
  8. Within3 - http://within3.com/

Micro-blogging, -searching & -aggregation (7 services)

  1. FriendFeed - http://friendfeed.com/rooms/medicine-2-0-microcarnival/ (microcarnival for docs)
  2. Identi.ca – http://identi.ca/
  3. Monitter – http://monitter.com/
  4. Twittersearch – http://search.twitter.com/
  5. Twitter – http://twitter.com /
  6. List of 69 Twitter services - http://smartech.blogetery.com/2008/05/16/69-twitter-web-services-you-should-know/
  7. Yammer - http://www.yammer.com/

Open knowledge-sharing sites (8 services)

  1. AskDrWiki – http://askdr.wiki.com/
  2. e-Meducation - http://www.e-meducation.org/
  3. HealthMash - http://healthmash.com/
  4. InfoMedMD - http://www.infomedmd.com
  5. Knol http://knol.google.com/k
  6. Medpedia – http://www.medpedia.com
  7. Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/
  8. UBC Health Library wiki (list of medical wikis) -http://hlwiki.slais.ubc.ca/index.php/Medical_wikis

Personal life 2.0 & genetics tracking (13 services)

  1. eHealthMe – http://www.ehealthme.com/
  2. FitBit - http://www.fitbit.com/
  3. GenePartner - http://www.genepartner.com/
  4. Geni - http://www.geni.com/
  5. GoogleHealth – http://www.google.com/health/
  6. Keyose.com – http://keyose.com/
  7. LifeMojo - http://www.lifemojo.com/
  8. Medsphere - http://medsphere.org/
  9. Microsoft HealthVault - http://www.healthvault.com/
  10. Medziva - http://www.medziva.com/
  11. My Digital Health - http://www.mydigitalhealth.com
  12. MyFamilyHealth - http://www.myfamilyhealth.com/home
  13. 23andMe - https://www.23andme.com/

Search 2.0 tools (8 services)

  1. Google Coop Health – http://google.com/coop/
  2. Hakia - http://hakia.com
  3. Healia – http://www.healia.com/
  4. Healthline – http://healthline.com/
  5. iMedix – http://www.imedix.com/
  6. MEDgle – http://medgle.com/
  7. MeraMD – http://meramd.com/
  8. OrganizedWisdom - http://organizedwisdom.com/
  9. RightHealth – http://www.righthealth.com/
  10. TRIPAnswers - http://www.tripanswers.org/

Slide & video sharing sites (10 services)

  1. bliptv - http://blip.tv/
  2. DNATube - http://www.dnatube.com/
  3. LabAction - http://www.labaction.com/
  4. MEDTing - http://medting.com/
  5. SciVee - http://www.scivee.com
  6. SecondSlide - https://www.secondslide.com/
  7. SlideShare - https://www.slideshare.net/
  8. TeacherTube - http://www.teachertube.com/
  9. WebMed Technology - http://www.webmedtechnology.com/physician/video.html
  10. YouTube - http://youtube.com/