Monthly Archives: September 2011

FolderBoy – Record Ideas, Collaborate On Tasks, and Unscramble Your Workflow

September 01, 2011

FolderBoy – Record Ideas, Collaborate On Tasks, and Unscramble Your Workflow
http://www.folderboy.com/

FolderBoy is a collaborative organizer that allows you to manage your team’s work-flow better. We offer a very fluid way to: (a) capture and share your ideas; (b) organize your notes, tasks, and resources; (c) collaborate on projects; and (d) streamline the process of turning ideas into goals…and goals into results. They have thrown out existing ideas about organization, and are building a service around six core beliefs. They believe that you should be able to: (1) Write first, organize later; (2) Grow your lists to infinite size and infinite depth; (3) Zoom in on any part of your tree; (4) Put anything anywhere; (5) Collaborate with your team, no matter where they are; and (6) Customize how you view your information. Here are some use-cases our users have found FolderBoy incredibly useful: (a) Organizing a project; (b) Collaborating remotely with a team; (c) Brainstorming and capturing ideas; (d) To-do lists; (e) Saving links and resources; and (f) Helping out with a five-minute research project. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

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Decide – Online Shopping Product Analysis, Alerts, Predictions and More

September 01, 2011

Decide – Online Shopping Product Analysis, Alerts, Predictions and More
http://www.Decide.com/

Decide predicts future product releases to help you purchase with no regrets.They make model predictions by matching hundreds of thousands of devices to their model lineages and applying advanced machine learning and text mining algorithms. Price predictions help you pull the trigger with confidence and save money. Their prediction algorithms utilize billions of observed price movements and over 40 distinct factors. Use their mobile site to get the right model and the right price when shopping at your local electronics store. Be an informed shopper with Decide mobile. Set up alerts for your future product purchase to be in the know about price changes, rumors and product releases. They arm you with Decide’s massive database of price and product information. Decide is all about leveraging data and technology, not marketing ploys, to help shoppers. They use their patent-pending machine learning and text mining algorithms on billions of price points across millions of products, blog posts, and articles on the web to enable shoppers to make the best buying decision possible. This will be added to ShoppingBots and Online Shopping 2011.

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