Haystack Group – Research On Information Access, Analysis, Management and Distribution
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/haystack/index.html

Their goal is to make it easier for people to collect, organize, find, visualize, and share their information. One of the biggest obstacles to such information management is the rigid, centrally-planned information models and user interfaces of existing applications and web sites. The data people use in the real world is rarely so well-formed. It is full of exceptions and idiosyncrasies. Their group develops tools for the web and desktop that can flex to hold and present whatever information a user considers important, in whatever way the user considers most effective. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to the resource section of Manage Information Overload.