Camille Schenkel

One of the frustrations cropping up on health social media sites is centered around the mechanism that caused their popularity at the outset, the message board. Perhaps health social networking sites can learn from online dating sites, Match and eHarmony, about linking mechanisms. They can also take a lesson from these websites regarding charging users. more>> ... (more)

Google's Health Kitchen Sink

Google's announcement about ChromeOS last week caused some technology pundits to hyperventilate about impending doom for Microsoft and put another notch in Google's product launch belt.While speculation runs rampant about the two giants as they battle it out for dominance in the OS and office productivity suite space, Google's latest announcement provides an interesting new twist to Google's Health platform. Because what ChromeOs will clearly provide once the operating system is released next year is a faster on-ramp for consumer-controlled, web-based patient health records (PHR)... (more)

Time for Geothermal

Much of the media and investment community has been focused on the potential for electric cars and solar in the last few years. The cleantech community invested about 60% of venture capital in the second quarter of 2009 in the transportation/fuel and solar energy sectors. One source of energy that hasn't gotten the research dollars in recent years but could provide a source of reliable, relatively cheap energy is geothermal. While generating a significant amount of geothermal energy is years away, Geothermal Heat Pumps are a proven technology and could provide immediate benefits ... (more)

Google's Health Kitchen Sink: Throwing Chrome OS in the Mix

Google's announcement about ChromeOS last week caused some technology pundits to hyperventilate about impending doom for Microsoft and put another notch in Google's product launch belt. While speculation runs rampant about the two giants as they battle it out for dominance in the OS and office productivity suite space, Google's latest announcement provides an interesting new twist to Google's Health platform. Because what ChromeOs will clearly provide once the operating system is released next year is a faster on-ramp for consumer-controlled, web-based patient health records (PHR... (more)

Open Letter to YouTube (and Google)

Health 2.0 Magazine Last week was a bad one for Google. There was a lot of chatter on the web regarding a Credit Suisse report estimating that Google may lose $470 million on YouTube in 2009. The AP and the Wall Street Journal also have Google (among other news aggregators) in their sights for copyright infringement as the print newspaper business has fallen off a cliff. As Google tries to find ways to make money in the health space, they seem to have devoted most of their energy on the Google Health initiative (still in BETA), which allows users to gather medical records online... (more)