Tag Archives: mobile

Video views up by 53% in 2009

June 26, 2009 – 10:43 am

A few weeks back, Nielsen released their Three Screen Report, which measures the viewing habits of Americans in terms of TV, the Internet, and mobile phones.  The research showed that while TV viewing is still dominant, online video usage is up by 53% from last year, and the number of people watching video via mobiles [...]

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CDC leading the way

March 17, 2009 – 12:52 pm

We follow with interest and excitement the US Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) use of social media. Some of the new approaches to health promotion include recently launched eCards through which people can send greetings, while sharing health related messages.. they’ve also opened a virtual flu clinic on Whyville.net, a site that explains a wide [...]

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New social media tools for emergency response

March 12, 2009 – 9:01 am

We spent yesterday together with the student group from Media Lab, University of Helsinki, with whom we are designing new social media prototypes for WHO’s Health Action in Crisies (HAC).   We’re now organized in 3 groups, each focusing on a different layer of emergency  communication. Group 1 is looking at enabling communication through ad-hoc [...]

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New mobile health care initiative launched

March 3, 2009 – 9:25 am

The UN, Vodafone, and the Rockefeller Foundation have formed a new “mobile health” alliance, with the aim of using mobile technology to provide better healthcare worldwide. The three made their announcement at the GSM World Mobile Conference in February 2009, stating they will facilitate global innovation, unite existing projects to improve healthcare using mobile technology and [...]

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Twitter gaining ground

February 25, 2009 – 12:14 pm

There had been a “noticeable increase” in visits to Twitter since the micro-blogging platform started receiving more widespread mainstream media attention, according to Hitwise. “Over the last 12 months traffic to Twitter.com has increased 27-fold,” says Robin Goad, a research director at Hitwise. “If the people accessing their Twitter accounts via mobile phones and third-party [...]

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