Social media websites, such as YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and Second Life are rapidly emerging as popular sources of health information especially for teens and young adults. Social media marketing carries the advantages of low cost, rapid transmission through a wide community, and user interaction. Disadvantages include blind authorship, lack of source citation, and presentation of o...

ESRI® ArcIMS® is an Internet Map Server software that facilitates authoring of maps, designing of Web sites using them, and their publication on the Internet. Its distributed architecture offers customization of server, plugability of components, scalability, load balancing, and fail over/recovery and facilitates 24x7 operations. This paper describes the architecture of ArcIMS 3, its components...

The number of Internet users as well as the number of web sites on the Internet are rapidly rising. Users have numerous web sites to choose from while surfing the net so the web sites are competing for the users’ attention and repeated visits. To achieve their goals whatever they may be the web sites must satisfy their visitors’ information and communication needs as much as possible within the...

Mid-sized Internet sites have enough complexity to be failure prone, but do not have enough resources to create the resilient architectures used by large Internet sites. In this paper, we characterize failures seen in mid-sized Internet sites and evaluate the use of (i) visualization techniques to assist humans in pinpointing failures and (ii) statistical learning techniques for automated failu...

This paper explores issues of professional, ethical conduct in usability testing centering around the concept of Ôinformed consentÕ. Previous work on informed consent has been in homogeneous geographic locations. With Internet sites being developed at a prodigious rate, these procedures need to be revisited for their applicability to heterogeneous locations, in terms of culture, business practi...

BACKGROUND Information available on the internet has changed patient-neurologist relationships. Its evaluation for multiple sclerosis is only partial, regardless of the language used. OBJECTIVE We aim to evaluate the content quality and ranking indexes of French-language sites dealing with multiple sclerosis. METHODS Two French terms and three search engines were used to identify the sites ...

BACKGROUND Health care professionals, trainees, and patients use the Internet extensively. Editable Web sites may contain inaccurate, incomplete, and/or outdated information that may mislead the public's perception of the topic. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the editable, online descriptions of clinical pharmacy and pharmacist and attempt to improve their accuracy. METHODS The authors identified ke...

The number of Internet users as well as the number of web sites on the Internet are rapidly rising. Users have numerous web sites to choose from while surfing the net, so the web sites are competing for the users’ attention and repeated visits. To achieve their goals whatever they may be the web sites must satisfy their visitors’ information and communication needs as much as possible within th...