I am currently attending the Web 2.0 Summit held every Fall in the epicenter of technology innovation....The Bay Area. This event has become the primary event for Web 2.0 leaders from across the world.

This year, the hot topic at the conference has been the rise of Facebook...the popular social networking site started by Harvard drop-out Mark Zuckerberg. The site was once the domain of college students and is now used by people worldwide for connecting and staying up to date with friends. iMedExchange has a lot in common with Facebook....at least architecturally. This will become more apparent in the coming months as we release new functions and features.

In addition to Facebook, Google's Marissa Mayer made some interesting comments about Google's forray into healthcare. Most of Mayer's comments involved the digitization of heath information. While Google is known for search, they have a massive infrastructure that can handle mind-boggling amounts of data. She made some obtuse comments about medical x-rays and personal healthcare records. The inference was that Google feels well positioned to help the US Healthcare industry digitize and catalog medical x-rays and somehow also have an impact on the adoption of personal health records. We'll see....no question they have a lot of capital and some creative minds.

In coming blog posts, I think I'll provide some overviews of Web 2.0 companies and the interesting technologies that are shaping social networking at large. If you have personal favorites or comments, please feel free to respond to the blog post.