A Social Network I Wish Didn’t Have to Exist
It’s a universal fear: you or a loved one gets diagnosed with a rare disease. After the dust settles, one of the first things many people do is hit the Web to begin research. With so much information to wade thorugh, separating the good from the bad is a difficult task. One of the best things you can do is find someone who has suffered the same illness.
RareShare announces that it has launched a health social networking platform specifcally for rare medical disorders.
Currently in ‘early beta,’ the Website hopes to bring patients, families and healthcare professionals together to share information and personal knowledge about rare diseases.
“Our goal is to build a network of micro-communities where people can help each other by sharing firsthand knowledge about living and being affected by these medical disorders,” explained Eric Steele, Co-Founder of RareShare. “By launching an early-beta version of RareShare, we hope gain further insight about our initial user-base to help improve the services and tools offered through RareShare,” he added.
The community is currently broken out into 500 micro-communities, each dedicated to a specific rare disorder. They plan to double that number by summer’s end. With more than 1,500 recognized rare diseases, there’s unfortunatley no shortage of illness.
The Website is a great resource. Now let’s hope you don’t ever have to check it out.
Of course every one of us know FedEx, or in one point in our lives have used the services to ship something locally or internationally. FedEx is such as big company that who would think that it will ride into the popularity of Facebook and come up with a Facebook application of its own? 
These days kids are bouncing out of public schools with academic Web training. That means many of them know how to create Web pages, produce podcasts and manipulate photos. Many bloggers I have met are proficient on one thing, and that’s writing. They really have no interest in a lot of the other elements that make a blog successful, such as images.
Couldn’t get enough of Twitter applications? Here are some more of them.
From average Joe Blows to small-time indie bands, there’s not a blog on this earth that I’m not willing to check out. But one blog I never expected to read is from my bank.
If the idea of sniffing for your friends’ whereabouts sound fun to you, you might actually like a new mobile phone and Facebook application called Sniff. It’s a pretty simple service which answers the most asked question through text messages - “Where r u?”. 
If you’re a web 2.0/social network junkie like me, you’ve probably be in Twitter, Friendfeed, Pownce, Facebook and many more social network/social media site. I don’t know about you, but more often than not, I don’t get to check my account in these sites on a daily basis. Good thing for Friendfeed, it just introduced a new feature that would make our “Friendfeeding” activities a little bit better. 
