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Is the online medical niche worthwhile?

For the last few years venture capital has been pouring into the online medical field, as companies look to emulate the success of WebMD. Maybe they should have stayed in bed. WebMD is suddenly looking less than formidable. Last week Motley Fool dubbed it...

Tags: Health Care, WebMD, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-02-20

Internet health finally getting healthy?

Are Internet health sites finally ready to make some serious money, or are they just poised for a shake-out that will leave everyone broke? After nearly 10 years of hard work WebMD reported yesterday it made $11.5 million in its last fiscal quarter, on sales of $87.2...

Tags: Internet, Health Care, WebMD, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-11-08

Top health sites: WebMD, Weight Watchers, Yahoo! Health

Nielsen//NetRatings published its findings regarding top health, fitness and nutrition sites in August 2005. Top health sites Sites Audience, 000 Reach, % WebMD 3,181 2.53 Weight Watchers 1,195 0.95 Yahoo! Health 1,133 0.9 About Health and Fitness 1,011 0.81 MSN Health 900 0.72 Medco 794 0.63 AOL Health 711 0.57 drugstore.com 698 0.56 eDiets 612 0.49 Walgreens 569 0.45 Source: Nielsen/NetRatings

Tags: Health

Blog posts 2005-12-04

Top health sites: eBay Sports, WebMD, AOL Health

Nielsen//NetRatings ranked top health, fitness and nutrition sites. The demographics of such sites is 57% female and 43% male. 47.7% of the users are between 45 and 55 years old. eBay, WebMD and AOL own the top properties for online health and fitness. Top Online Health, Fitness & Nutrition Destinations Unique...

Tags: Health, eBay Inc.

Blog posts 2005-02-25

Top health sites: eBay Sports, WebMD, AOL Health

Nielsen//NetRatings ranked top health, fitness and nutrition sites. The demographics of such sites is 57% female and 43% male. 47.7% of the users are between 45 and 55 years old. eBay, WebMD and AOL own the top properties for online health and fitness. Top Online Health, Fitness & Nutrition Destinations Unique...

Tags: Health, eBay Inc.

Blog posts 2005-02-25

WebMD may be due for a checkup

WebMD may be due for a checkupLots of unhappy people thereAnd from what insiders have been saying, all these problems started just around the same time Microsoft sent them a truck load of those MS Tablet PCs+Avalon and installed Win2003+IIS+Cairo+T-Box(Hot New Stuff!!!) for their backend.I think this is some serious...

Tags: WebMD

Discussion threads 2004-04-26

Additional Resources

Top US sites in June 2008

Rank Property Audience, 000 Total Internet 189,873 1 Google Sites 140,163 2 Yahoo! Sites 140,080 3 Microsoft Sites 119,677 4 AOL LLC 110,841 5 Fox Interactive Media 85,998 6 eBay 72,972 7 Amazon...

Tags: Site, Advertising & Promotion, Wiki, Internet, Marketing, Online Communications, NB

Blog posts 2008-07-31

Top US Web sites in May 2008

Rank Property Audience, 000 Total Internet 190,858 1 Google Sites 143,389 2 Yahoo! Sites 142,925 3 Microsoft Sites 121,257 4 AOL LLC 111,395 5 Fox Interactive Media 89,424 6 eBay 78,271 7 Wikipedia...

Tags: Web, Web Site, Site, Advertising & Promotion, Wiki, Internet, Marketing, Online Communications, NB

Blog posts 2008-07-14

Herb does not ease ADHD

Herb does not ease ADHD[b] I'm sorry, is thie WebMD?[/b]Not to be mean, but What does this have to do with technology?Perhaps you ment to write this somewhere else? A personal blog?Do you guys get paid a flat fee or by the word?...Been saying this all along and have seen...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, St. John, ADHD, health care

Discussion threads 2008-06-11

Top Web sites in US in April 2008

Rank Property Audience, 000 Total Internet 190,728 1 Google Sites 141,080 2 Yahoo! Sites 140,613 3 Microsoft Sites 121,213 4 AOL LLC 111,277 5 Fox Interactive Media 87,527 6 eBay 80,903 ...

Tags: Web, Web Site, Site, Advertising & Promotion, Wiki, Internet, Marketing, Online Communications, NB

Blog posts 2008-06-10

Google Health launches; Read the terms of service

Google Health launches; Read the terms of serviceWow!!This is the era of minority report.Who would be foolish enough......to put all their health info on the web for the world to see and for Google to share with the rest of the world? Especially nowadays when potential employers are, ahem,...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Companies, Google Inc., Google Health, health care, terms of service

Discussion threads 2008-05-19

Dear stockholders: Please believe us, Microsoft undervalues us

Yahoo's latest move in the end game with Microsoft is a letter to stockholders, explaining why the company is worth more than Microsoft is offering. The global online advertising market will grow from $45 billion in 2007 to $75 billion in 2010, the letter stated, and Yahoo is poised to...

Tags: Advertisement, Yahoo! Inc., Fact, Microsoft Corp., Advertiser, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2008-02-13

Fleury's back and SOA's got him

Marc Fleury, the l'enfant terrible of open source, is back from his Red Hat-induced vacation, acting as an adviser to Appcelerator, an Atlanta start-up with a "compelling take on the SOA market." Fleury, who sold JBOSS to Red Hat a few years ago and was pushed out...

Tags: Marc Fleury, SOA, JBoss, Fleury, Appcelerator, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Middleware, Web Services, Open Source, Java Development Tools, Development Tools, Enterprise Software, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-12-12

Can Monster win online health wars with Healthcare.com?

Online health care has been a wide-open opportunity for a decade, one no one has yet been able to master. Lots of big, smart operators have taken their shot. WebMD. Revolution Health . Healthline. Taumed. Everydayhealth. The alliances spun by these sites with major players can also...

Tags: Monster, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Entrepreneurship, Domain Names, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Management, Internet, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-11-06

Today's Debate: What model will close the health literacy gap?

Pfizer has put out a study today with a very scary number. $236 billion. (Picture from Craig Lefebvre's Social Marketing blog.) That's the high end of their estimate for what a lack of health literacy costs the U.S. every year. The lower, more-often reported number, is $106...

Tags: Pfizer Inc., Health Care, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, E-health, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-10-24

Yahoo notches Wall Street win; Aims to be Internet 'starting point'

Updated throughout: Yahoo's third quarter results are showing signs of life as the company notched a rare win with Wall Street. For the third quarter ended Sept. 30, Yahoo reported earnings of $151 million, or 11 cents a share, on revenue excluding traffic acquisition costs of $1.28 billion. Earnings...

Tags: Jerry Yang, Yahoo! Inc., Wall, Internet, Construction, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-10-16

Making sense of VRM

For many months, I have been reading the Project VRM list hosted by Doc Searls and Harvard. The putative Bill of Rights for Users of the Social Web has addressed this challenge, as well, but misses in ways similar to VRM, because of the implicit relationships between social web service...

Tags: Relationship, Information, Alan, Tools & Techniques, Hipaa, Regulatory Compliance, Channel Management, Management, Regulations, Healthcare, Government, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Marketing, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2007-10-11

Health care roils search engine rankings

Health care is shaking up the search engine market.Long-time laggard Ask.Com is suddenly a contender, at least in consumer satisfaction, and it's making a new effort in health care with what it calls Health Smart Answers.Revolution Health and HealthLine are acting as the main information providers to Health Smart Answers.At...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Dana Blankenhorn, search engine, health care

Blog posts 2007-08-15

Today's Debate: Entrepreneurs a threat or boon to health care?

A new flood of entrepreneurial energy is coming into health care.While previous waves focused on devices, or facility roll-ups, the new wave aims to use technology for cutting costs and empowering patients.It's just that simple.I use the phrase above because one of the new entrepreneurs is our old friend H....

Tags: Entrepreneurship, Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Dana Blankenhorn, health care

Blog posts 2007-08-13

Microsoft readies a consumer healthcare platform

Microsoft readies a consumer healthcare platformFine choice[i]How would you feel about a Microsoft healthcare platform/service? Would you trust it any more/less than a Google one?[/i]That's like being asked whether you prefer execution by firing squad or burning at the stake.Google has a better track record on security and lock-in (which...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Microsoft Corp., health care, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-06-29