Information Assistants – Tools for Technology and Product Research
Use technology for data collection, analysis and discovery.
Assistants
Assistants to help you do better technology and product research.
InfoMinder
InfoMinder tracks web pages and sends alerts when the content changes. Our customers use it for lead generation (tracking RFPs), competitor tracking, creating collections, legal case tracking and environment information monitoring.
Tweet Assistant
Tweet Assistant helps you gather tweets, extract hashtags and mentions and find lists and influencers. Using Tweet Assistant you can monitor activity in specific markets or industry segments, track companies and products.
Search Assistant
Search Assistant is a layer built on top of Google Search that retrieves top 100 results for searches. You can use this data for mining information.Search Assistant can also be used to find new sources of information about specific topics.
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Micro Knowledge Bases – The Need
You read a document. You gain some knowledge. How do you retain it for recall or reuse? There are many techniques for individuals. What about organizational knowledge? Let us pick product teams as an example. There are so many pieces of useful information that [...]
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This is the question I try to discuss during my talk @LibConf Let the machines do the routine and brute work, we think. Sounds like a reasonable argument. But machines are not capable of replacing humans in every aspect of work. In some [...]
Read MoreInfoAssistants
The idea for Info Assistants has been brewing for a while. We started with InfoMinder – a tool for tracking web pages, more than a decade ago. It is still going strong. We addedTopicMinder, a couple of years laeter, to gather news about specific [...]
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