Social Software Links for May 20th, 2008

  • Epicenter: Google Health Goes Live – It will have huge ramifications in how very sensitive data will get shared and managed.
  • Google Friend Connect launches, proving what me and a few others have said in the past – Social Networking isn’t a set of destinations, but a set of features that services that aim to surface online community focus must provide. Forums and Instant Messenging 3.0.
  • Talking about opening conversation in a truely powerful way, ever notice how few talk about mental illness? Well the same holds true online as well. Furious Seasons, a great blog that discusses mental health care from different angles, shares that one of the best blogs about the subject, editor of the Philadelphia Weekly, Liz Spikol, maybe leaving us.
  • Philly.com relaunches. I have a lot to say about the work Mark Potts and team accomplished, but for now – congrats!
  • ReadWriteWeb shares The Ultimate Twitter Revenue Model. Advertisements. Show me a business plan that doesn’t include them. The funny thing is we all claim to have read The Cluetrain Manifesto, yet instead of discouraging advertising as a business model – it appears to have empowered it as one. Maybe reinforced it as one. The irony is thick.