Twitter, the popular social network and microblogging service, reached an interesting milestone this morning. According to Mashable.com the number of tweets ( Twitter messages ) posted on the site now exceeds the world population at 6.8 billion. It is estimated that Twitter broke this record at around 1 AM EST this morning. The numbers were […]
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Google’s Matt Cutts recently discussed search engine trends and search predictions for 2010. Matt discussed where search engine technology is going in 2010 — New Types of Data Searches: Data overload is a big worry among web search engines. As a result, Google is trying to divide and categorize new searches for different types of […]
URL shortening services like bit.ly and tinyurl.com have grown as demand for leaner and cleaner web links has grown due to social networking and microblogging sites like Twitter and Facebook. In addition, the frequent use of shortened URLs on these social media sites has increased the trust that people have in their legitimacy. However, clicking […]
A US Senate proposal to ban the medical data mining of physicians’ prescription writing for targeted marketing by drug companies will not be part of the Senate’s health reform bill according to a Senate staff member for Senator Herb Kohl. A data mining ban on doctors’ prescription records would strike at pharmaceutical data companies like […]
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It seems that even the doctor-patient relationship isn’t immune to the growing high tech practice of data mining by businesses to get a competitive advantage. Current practices allow pharmaceutical companies to monitor how many prescriptions a doctor writes for a given drug. Drug companies can obtain this information from pharmacies and health insurers. Number crunching […]
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