Every year, Webware (a CNET site) selects the 100 leading internet sites.  This year, they have selected ZocDoc as one of the 300 finalists among 4,600 candidates! We are, of course, not building ZocDoc to win prizes. We are creating a platform to make healthcare simpler and people’s lives better. At the same time we are honored and humbled to be mentioned along great sites like Amazon, eBay, OpenTable, Google and Microsoft. The ultimate winners will be selected by a vote of the general public, starting today. We realize that we are a much newer company than many of the other nominees, but we are energized by the enthusiastic feedback we’ve been getting from both our patients and our doctors. So, if you like our service, please vote for us!

Look out for an article by Rebecca Buckman in today's WSJ. While she is worried that the Web 2.0 may be a bubble, her biggest worry about ZocDoc seems to be that we have only a 2% market penetration (less than three weeks after launch): Among firms presenting there was ZocDoc Inc., which lets people make appointments with doctors and dentists online. The New York company has listings for only 2% of the dentists in Manhattan and no physicians, but it has attracted interested investors, says its CEO, Cyrus Massoumi. Read the full article

It's always good to feel appreciated, but the response to our launch and press release has shown us that we are not alone in our belief that finding doctors and dentists is a major pain point for many fellow Americans.