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Quick Hits: April 22

Google Places Tackles Location From the Search Angle

Google has renamed its Local Business Center to Places, and added a host of new features. Since many people use Google for location-based searches, it’ll be interesting to see how this competes with the growth of location-based social networks.

YouTube Introduces ‘Show & Tell’

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The Swiss Cheese Web Ain't The Web

Seemingly overnight the Information Superhighway (does anyone call it that anymore?) became littered with potholes. In the last week Apple sold nearly 500,000 iPads, none of which support key technologies that we have come to rely on, including Adobe Flash, Windows Media and others. (Adobe and Microsoft are Edelman clients.)

For the last week I have been using my iPad as my primary device. I enjoy the slate format and think it’s the next big thing for computing – one that will see lots of winners….

Health Digital Check-Up: Buzzing For Health

It seems that every few months, Google comes out with a new communication platform. As health communicators, some of these have had significant impact on our role (see: Sidewiki) and bring added challenges to our counsel.

Last week, Google launched a contact-based social network, Buzz, that is automatically built into Gmail, the company’s…