techcrunch.com - 4/30/2009
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Swine Flu iPhone App Home Yesterday, we talked a bit about how some companies are clearly trying to capitalize on the Swine Flu craze that is sweeping the nation. Naturally, someone just had to make an iPhone app. And the winner is IntuApps , which has Swine Flu Tracker, waiting for approval ...
Swine Flu on the Web - Misinformation aplenty
tech.blorge.com 4/27/2009 — This latest swine flu outbreak is the same as any other health concern - it needs to be treated with respect, by people who know what they’re talking about, and with a distinct lack of paranoia and hyperbole. Unfortunately, the Internet doesn’t work in that way.
Here are some facts ...
Spammers jump on swine flu bandwagon
webuser.co.uk 4/27/2009 — After several cases of swine influenza were reported in Europe, spammers have been exploiting online interest in the illness to sell their products.
Follow the Swine Flu Pandemic in Real Time With Google Maps [Apocalypse Now]
gizmodo.com 4/27/2009 — The current H1N1 Swine Flu pandemic headlines read like those flashing through the intro sequence of a post-apocalyptical movie. Now you can see the cases spreading in real time—as the WHO declares them—in Google Maps . In case you have not been paying attention to the news during ...
Google Maps Mashup Tracks Swine Flu [Mashups]
lifehacker.com 4/28/2009 — News and concern over swine flu has spread faster than the actual illness, but if you want to keep a close eye on reports—confirmed and otherwise—this Google Maps mashup does the job...
FluGen creates a painless gadget for delivering flu vaccine
dvice.com 4/28/2009 — There might be a Swine Flu shot in the near future for you, but who wants to get stabbed by a sharp needle? It makes us dizzy just thinking about it. But help could be on the way. The brainiacs at FluGen figured out a way to deliver vaccine just ...
Google Maps puts Swine Flu in perspective
gadgetell.com 4/28/2009 — Section: Web , Web Apps , Websites View H1N1 Swine Flu in a larger map
With each passing day, many of us are checking ourselves for any flu-like symptoms as the media tells us about a potential pandemic: Swine Flu. A common sneeze now merits a steady stare from passerbys, a cough ...
VIRAMASK Offers Protection Against Flu Viruse
irresistiblegadgets.com 4/29/2009 — In past couple of days we all became aware of new strain of flu virus called Swine Flu. Scientists around the world are trying to comprehend how deadly this virus is and possibility of pandemic. Since it is completely new strain there is no available vaccine yet. How can you protect yourself and ...
Hysteria over Swine Flu outbreak hits Twitter
gadgetell.com 4/27/2009 — Section: Web , Web 2.0 , Websites The hottest topic on Twitter right now is the Swine Flu outbreak. The #swineflu tag has exploded and become one of the top 2 trending topics on Twitter search. Swine Flu has killed over 60 people in Mexico and cases have been discovered here in several ...
Live Swine Flu Mashup, Google Flu Trends Tracker, and Twitter on Swine Flu H1N1
realtechnews.com 4/28/2009 — By Alice Hill
RealTechNews
Special Report: The CDC (Center for Disease Control) claims it is not serious yet, but we like to look at data before making up our minds. So we turned to Google and Twitter for the most up to date flu information. Now you can too:
Swine Flu MashUp on Google ...
Protect Yourself Against the Swine Flu, With Style [Design]
gizmodo.com 4/30/2009 — The WHO has raised the Swine Flu—which you can follow in this map or through Twitter —to alert level 5, which means a pandemic is imminent. Not funny. Some people, however, are having fun. Stylish surgical masks by Yoriko Yoshida 30 Apr ...
Swine flu: Everything you need to know about swine flu--and what to avoid
popgadget.net 4/28/2009 —
Inevitably, Twitter is atwitter with swine flu tweets of varying reliability. CNET's Larry Magid describes the authoritative swine flu tweets from the US Centers for Disease Control, along with warnings about regarding other swine flu tweets with caution. CNN also regards Twitter as a ...
iPhone App - Swine Flu Tracker
coated.com 5/5/2009 — Human Swine Flu (H1N1) has been the headline story on the nightly news with the World Health Organization (WHO) bumping the alert level of this virus to phase 4, one level below being deemed a flu pandemic. Some have questioned if this virus could be similar to the flu outbreak of 1918.
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Swine Flu Tracker coming to an iPhone near you
gaj-it.com 5/5/2009 — As if there weren't enough sensationalist headlines around already, the whole world now appears to have gone Swine Flu kerrazzy so it's little surprise to hear that quick thinking app development company IntuApps should have its Swine Flu Tracker on ...
Track Swine Flu with your iPhone —
Cellphone9
Created by Barry Schwartz, blogger and application developer, the Swine Flu Tracker will include a threat level page, clickable maps of reported cases and alerts issued from WHO, CDC and HealthMap Twitter accounts.[ BlogHerald ]
As of this writing, the app is still pending approval. But ...
Harper's Weekly on Swine Flu —
Boing Boing
Lots of great stuff in the latest Harper's Weekly, including this paragraph about the swine flu hullabaloo:
Swine flu, renamed under pork-lobby pressure to "influenza
A (H1N1) virus, human," and referred to as "killer Mexican
flu" by anti-immigration activists, had infected 985
people, or ...
Swine Flu Tracker iPhone Application —
Gadgetizer.com
Seeing more masked faces these days than unmasked? Hysteria having already swept in, now you can access the latest news on the Swine Flu if you’re getting all the more paranoid.
Created to show you and “empower you with up-to-the-minute information” on where and when the ...
Has the Internet Made the Swine Flu Epidemic Better or Worse? —
GeekSugar
Forget the water cooler, all anyone talked about this week all over my workplace was the swine flu epidemic . You'd think that reading tech blogs all day, I'd have some sort of reprieve, but that was not the case at all.
In fact, tech and the swine flu were tightly associated, from an ...
Swine Flu Tracker App: Not Called iSwine —
GadgetReview
To fuel the fires of pork paranoia, a Swine Flu Tracker is soon to emerge in the app store for all that desperately need infectious disease information. As a free app, Swine Flu Tracker is a news and symptoms feed, a map that updates the outbreaks, and a World Health Organization threat ...
Get Swine Flu Updates Via Text Messages On Your Phone —
jkOnTheRun
You can’t go anywhere without hearing about the Swine Flu pandemic and rightly so as it’s a serious situation with horrible potential. The folks at cellphones.org have it covered by offering free Swine Flu updates via SMS messages on cell phones.
Text PIGFLU to 41411 and we will ...
Google releases experimental flu trends data for Mexico —
Gizmos for Geeks
Last Nov, we noted that Google was using search data to explore flu trends in the US. With the outbreak of the swine flu (sorry, H1N1 influenza ), Google has decided to release new search data to health officials and the public.
This search data shows flu trends for Mexico. Note the word ...
A lighter look at swine flu: taking it seriously, or not —
DVICE Atom Feed
While the jury it out on whether surgical masks are effective in preventing the spread of swine flu , folks throughout the world are making them a bit more fun to wear. Some of these pics were taken from the streets of Mexico, and the others are from Japanese designer Yoriko Yoshida.
While ...
Tech Digest Podcast #5 —
Tech Digest
We are not infected. Actually, I can't say that for certain. Duncan has a cold and I travelled in on the Tube before we started talking about all the Swine Flu panic on Twitter, the internet maps and the spread of the virus. Thankfully, Swine Flu cannot be transmitted over podcast and, at the ...
Visualizing Swine Flu on Virtual Earth —
D' Technology Weblog
Microsoft Virtual Earth fans decided to map the Swine Flu outbreak, so here’re couple of apps using Virtual Earth to visualize the outbreak ( 2009 Swine Flu H1N1 Outbreak and Migration Map ):
– Live Search Maps has a collection highlighting reported cases (both ...
Ins and Outs —
Medgadget
Mexican Toddler in U.S. Dies From Swine Flu... [NYT]
Swine flu goes global... [Nature]
Autism genes discovered; help shape connections among brain cells... [University of Washington]
If Primary-Care Docs Are Paid More, Will Specialists Get Less? [WSJ]
Researchers use lasers to induce ...
Three Ways to Track the H1N1 (Swine Flu) —
Gear Live
Scared that you will be the next swine flu (now known as H1N1) victim? You can track new outbreaks to keep up with the latest hot spots. The WHO (World Health Organization) has daily updates on their site while the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) keeps an exact count of the ...
Swine Flu updates by SMS —
textually.org
With the recent pandemic of Swine Flu going around, and the ensuing need to know how you're affected, US based CellPhones.org has created a new service for cell phone users:
Text PIGFLU to 41411 and we will send updates as news develops about the Swine Flu. The only cost is your cost for ...
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