Microblogging: Twitter and Friendfeed

Micro-blogging is the practice of sending brief text updates, photos, audio/video clips or links and make these public on a website and/or distributed to a private group of subscribers. These messages can be submitted by text messaging, instant messaging or e-mail.

Many micro-blogs provide short commentary about medical news, medical specialties or a company's products and services.

Webicina features two microblogging platforms including Twitter and Friendfeed.

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users' updates, which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length.

In countries all around the world, people follow the sources most relevant to them and access information via Twitter as it happens—from breaking world news to updates from friends.

Cardiology news / organizations:

• American College of Cardiology (ACC): American College of Cardiology's Advocacy Department and the CardioAdvocacy Network (CAN).
  
  
• European Society of Cardiology (ESC): The European Society of Cardiology aims to reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease through congresses, surveys, journals and clinical practice guidelines.
  
  
• Cardiology News: Cardiology News is the leading newspaper for cardiologists.
  
  
• Medscape Cardiology: Latest medical news, articles, and features from Medscape Cardiology
  
  
• Cardiology Rounds: A Professional & Personal Networking Site for Cardiologists Worldwide
  
  
• Cardiology Today: The official Twitter feed for Cardiology Today, featuring news & perspectives for the cardiology specialist.
  
  
• Touch Cardiology: Independent up-to-date cardiology news and information
  
  
• heartwire news: Cardiology news and conference coverage by heartwire news from theheart.org
  
  
• CongenitalCardiology: Congenital Cardiology Today is a monthly newsletter that provides reliable and timely information on congenital/structural heart disease.
  
  

People who post about cardiology:

• Drfighter: Doctor by profession, simple guy ,love to paint ,read and surf
  
  
• Carrie Sperlunto: Registered nurse with specialties in invasive cardiology & infusion nursing, restaurateur, network mentor/marketer.
  
  
• Troy Anderson: JHU Ph.D. Candidate Dept Biomedical Eng, interested in: Genomics, Proteomics, Cardiology, Economics and MN Sports.
  
  
• Dr Ted Portnay: Ted Portnay is a Board Certified in Interventional Cardiology. He specializes in preventing and treating heart attacks. His blogs contains news and adivce.
  
  
• Dhanu: Scientific/medical research focussed on aging, immunity and cardiology. A geek at heart and a jack of many trades..
  
  
• Ette Noel: Work in Cardiology at a teaching hosptial.

There are aggregators that help you find people tweeting about cardiology.

Omnee

Omnee uses an innovative 3D hybrid ratings system to bring you the top users for each tag. We combine manual ratings (the size of the username) and computed ratings (the order based on Twinfluence ratings across four influence factors and colour based on Retweetrank).

Twellow

Twellow.com is currently grabbing publicly available messages from the Twitter.com micro-blogging service. They analyze and categorize each of the users responsible for those messages into the various categories found at Twellow.com.

Just Tweet It

Choose a category and find other Twitter users or list your name to let people find you!

Search.twitter.com

It lets you track all the tweets and Twitter users focusing on cardiology.

Friendfeed is an aggregator that collects the updates from social networking websites, social bookmarking websites, blogs and micro-blogging updates, as well as any other type of RSS feed. Users can use this stream of information to create customized feeds to share (and comment) with friends. It offers a unique way to discover and discuss information among a community.

AmerCollegeofCardiology

American College of Cardiology, Advocacy Department.

Click here to check all cardiology-related Friendfeed rooms