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Biocitizens, Advertizing, and the Virtual Dead

Apr 17, 2008 By Miriam Lueck Avery

A recent piece in the NYT BITS blog has some interesting ramifications for our forecasts on biosocial identities and affinities. It discusses a set of...

the Colbert Report: Clay Shirky Talks Online Community

Apr 17, 2008 By Anthony Townsend

Last night I saw Clay Shirky, Jimmy Wales, Tim Wu and Jonathan Zittrain on a panel at the NYU Law School. Apparently I missed Clay's appearance 2...

Online relief is in sight for pain sufferers

Apr 16, 2008 By Vivian Distler

Another interesting health app I have recently discovered is called ReliefInsite. It bills itself as a source of secure online pain management...

Peer-to-Peer Infrastructure for Virtual Worlds:

Apr 16, 2008 By Anthony Townsend

Technology Review reports today on VastPark, a new Australian startup that is taking a peer-to-peer approach to managing load in virtual worlds. Seems...

Food vs. Fuel Heats Up

Apr 15, 2008 By Anthony Townsend

The food vs. fuel debate has really flared up in the last few weeks, with food riots in places like Haiti threatening major political disruption. This...

A standout (?) among examples of Health 2.0 apps

Apr 14, 2008 By Vivian Distler

The ReadWriteWeb blog offers this list of favorite Health 2.0 sites. Many will be familiar to HH members, but one relatively new...

Retail DNA

Apr 13, 2008 By Vivian Distler

Navigenics is not the only company to market consumer genetic testing (see 23andMe and deCODEme), but it may be the first to do so in a retail setting...

Twitter makes itself useful

Apr 11, 2008 By Jess Hemerly

Rather, the people of San Francisco trying to get a glimpse of the Olympic Torch on Wednesday made Twitter useful. With the officials faking out...

Time-lapse Video from TYF Conference

Apr 11, 2008 By Jess Hemerly

As promised, Jerry Michalski's time-lapse video from the Ten-Year Forecast Conference on Thursday, April 10, 2008. ...

New Startup Finally Brings Web 2.0 to Forums

Apr 09, 2008 By Anthony Townsend

Paul Bragiel, who built what was one of the more interesting mobile social communities around his Meetro IM platform, has now brought Web 2.0...

2008 Ten Year Forecast conference

Apr 09, 2008 By Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

The Institute's 2008 Ten Year Forecast conference is going on today at the Mission Bay conference center. The center is part of the new UCSF Mission...

Conference on the future of social science

Apr 08, 2008 By Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

One of the things I've started paying more attention to since starting the X2 Project are announcements for interesting conferences that deal with...

Citizen Science meets art in San Francisco

Apr 06, 2008 By Vivian Distler

Last weekend, an artist-run organization called Southern Exposure (SoEx) held a hands-on workshop in San Francisco that invited people to "[j]oin a...

Walgreens is on the job

Apr 06, 2008 By Vivian Distler

With apologies for not reporting this news item when it happened a couple of weeks ago . . . Drugstore chain Walgreen is moving into the workplace to...

Sustainability How-to: Green Business Digest

Apr 03, 2008 By Jess Hemerly

Anthony stumbled onto a great resource for information on green business trends: BusinessWeek's Green Business Newsletter. It's a monthly digest that...

Metaverse Infrastructure Emerging, and Blended Reality Ethnographies

Apr 03, 2008 By Anthony Townsend

The Virtual Worlds 2008 conference is going on in New York this week, and Technology Review is reporting on the announcement of the first of a wave of...

Microsoft's vision of the future of health

Apr 03, 2008 By Vivian Distler

At last month's Mix08 conference, Microsoft played a video created by its Office Labs to share their vision of the future of personal health...

A nexus of Health Horizons' areas of interest: Open Health meets games for health

Apr 03, 2008 By Vivian Distler

Next month, the Serious Games Initiative will host its Games for Health conference. There will be sessions on epidemiology in World of Warcraft, Game...

Another entry into the online health search engine/social networking platform space

Mar 25, 2008 By Vivian Distler

iMedix bills itself as a new way to find and share health information. Its home page features quotes from various media sources proclaiming its...

The future of cigarettes?

Mar 25, 2008 By Vivian Distler

I don't usually think of Wired as a source of information for the Health Horizons blog, but this recent headline caught my eye: The Cigarette of the...

An online health search authority figure

Mar 25, 2008 By Vivian Distler

I confess that I have never heard of Aaron Wall, but according to the Med Tech Sentinel blog, he is quite knowledgeable about search engine...

The coming debate about brain enhancement

Mar 13, 2008 By Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

The New York Times recently had a pretty decent article about debates over brain enhancement in academia:...

Invitations for Future of Making Spring Exchange

Mar 11, 2008 By Jess Hemerly

Please comment below with your suggestions for people we should invite to the Spring Exchange at Maker Faire. Please list NAMES, AFFILIATIONS, and...

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