Still another Web presence is getting into the data game. Following reports of Samsung, Apple and Google all trying to sync up health data on your phone (and potentially convey it to your provider), an old Web presence is inviting itself to party: WebMD.
Formerly the best exemplar of Silicon Valley enthusiasm because it started its digital life without a clear-cut business plan for making money, the site, which offers medical information to consumers, has transformed itself into a “health information company,” by which we mean “the top result on Google for when you nervously search for whatever symptom you're temporarily worried about.” (Or, as they'd describe it: a helpful, highly accurate compendium of information about diseases, symptoms, conditions, medications and so on and so forth.)
