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DirectLabs

25 May 2011
DirectLabs (Direct Laboratory Services, Inc.) offers direct access laboratory testing. Health tests can be ordered online without a prescription. DirectLabs works with physicians and labs across the country, which order lab slips and perform the blood, urine, and other tests. Results are online within a few days, typically. Examples of tests include Vitamin D, Toxic metals in urine, Lipid Panel. There are also packaged tests, such as CardioPlus, which includes Lipids, Kidneys, Liver & ...

SecretGoals.com

25 May 2011
SecretGoals.com is an anonymous goal tracking site. It was inspired by the work of Alcoholics Anonymous, which has been shown to help individuals abstain from alcohol. It is also based on research that suggests that keeping goals from friends and family until they are achieved may be the best way to achieve them. The site is anonymous but social. See what other people are experiencing and support or congratulate them.

Pepfly

25 May 2011
Pepfly finds content that engages specified emotions. Tell Pepfly how you feel and how you want to feel and Pepfly will return photos, videos, articles and more from around the web to help you change the way you feel. Pepfly works with email, Twitter and IM. The more you use it, the more it learns what sort of content to show you. Pepfly is in beta.

Kibotzer

25 May 2011
Kibotzer (soon to be Beeminder) tracks goals and displays progress. Anything that can have a periodic number put on it can be tracked. For example, commute time, weight, and net worth could all be tracked. Kibotzer differentiates itself with its data visualization, which utilizes smoothing to display better trends over time. Kibotzer also displays differently colored areas: yellow (brick road) shows your goal trendline, turquoise (swath) shows a true trend on a wide band, purple (line) is ...

With a Little Help from My Friends

25 May 2011
With a Little Help from My Friends is a Facebook app that rewards a user for compliance to a goal by displaying their friends on the "safe" side of the homepage. When a user slacks off, their friends move to the "lost" side of the homepage and eventually fade away. Friends can give a "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" to progress. Ratings have the same effects as positive and negative progress. If friends disapprove of progress, their faces may disappear from the page of the guilty party.
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