Google Health Coming Soon?

Spotted by Google Blogscoped is a login page for Google Health, Google’s entry into the online health records space. At the time of writing the site isn’t allowing logins, but it does include this text:

With Google Health, you can:

* Build online health profiles that belong to you

* Download medical records from doctors and pharmacies

* Get personalized health guidance and relevant news

* Find qualified doctors and connect to time-saving services

* Share selected information with family or caregivers

The other thing to note is the logo (we’ve included it in this post), it would appear that Google Health is going straight to Beta and not through Google Labs.

Google Health has been hampered by chronic fatigue syndrome in terms of its development, with the site being rumored to launch originally in May 2006. Microsoft even beat Google in the space, having launched its own online health product in October 2007.

MySpaceTV Signs the BBC

MySpaceTV is officially going global, with a new deal with BBC. The deal is the first of its kind for MySpaceTV, and it solidifies the increasing value of MySpace’s online video hub, which News Corp. is beginning to leverage for a variety of purposes; promotional, distributive and otherwise. See the channel here. Under the deal, current and archived video content from the BBC Worldwide programs will be made available on MySpaceTV. And unlike some of the other distribution partnerships we’ve seen come through MySpaceTV, the BBC’s branded channel actually looks good. You’d almost forget it’s MySpace.

So the question looming here is; what took so long? MySpaceTV has been around for some time, and the BBC hasn’t been too shy about lending some of its content up for distribution across other video-sharing networks, including YouTube, and more recently Vuze. Even after launching, to the dismay of some, its own platform for watching BBC content online, the European network does recognize the benefits taking advantage of some existing distribution hubs out there, MySpace being one of them.

It seems to be working for Hulu, which also offers its own platform for distributive purposes. Will this model truly shut down other promising players like Joost, or will the distribution methods of sending older content to the media-sharing networks while keeping the new stuff as a premium, centralized option soon see its own demise?

My WeShow: Create Your Own Video Network

WeShow started out as a human-powered video aggregator, with editors on board to find and share the best content out there when it comes to online video. As many of these types of services do, WeShow is now offering an option to let you create your own video aggregator, essentially making you the editor. Entire communities can be built from here, even allowing for your members to add videos to your community as well.

Called My WeShow, the service is pretty simple. It basically lets you create a centralized group for the video content you love, with the help of others. In function and implementation, My WeShow is in fact quite similar to Magnify, which also lets you create custom groups for sharing video content from across the web. My WeShow offers personalization options such as color templates, and an ad revenue-sharing model as well. AdSense ads placed on your network will get you a 50-50 split, so the more engaged you and your members are in your My WeShow community, the higher your earning potential rises.

What I’m not sure of, however, is if and how these communities will be leveraged for use on WeShow. As WeShow has taken somewhat of a Best Week Ever approach to promoting video content (and by that I simply mean that the team behind WeShow chooses what’s important), will these other communities within the WeShow network be needed at all for WeShow’s main service? I’m also wondering if integrated video communities in the form of an API is the next step for My WeShow.