[git.cc.class.6364] Re: web information managers

Jen Mankoff (jmankoff@cc.gatech.edu)
Tue, 9 Apr 1996 14:24:05 -0400 (EDT)

This was posted to the hypermedia class newsgroup, but I thought it
might be of interest to future as well ....

-jen

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Subject: Re: web information managers
Date: 8 Apr 1996 23:06:32 GMT
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Thanks for that info, Jim.

Her is something more that may be of interest - or maybe not I didn't
have the time to check these URLs myself.

These URLs are from a mail that was sent to the Future Computing
Environments list earlier today. Anind (who is that?) was so nice to
collect several URLs that just fit perfectly into this thread.

MapQuest - completely customizable mapping function
- data for entire US
- really cool system, bunch of different applications
including a Java map applet
- definitely worth taking a look at
http://www.mapquest.com

Cyber-highways:
Houston Real-time traffic map
http://herman.tamu.edu/traffic.html

Seattle Real-time traffic map
http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/regions/northwest/NWFLOW/

U-media Service
learns your interests - filters content from WWW
newswires, netnews, satellite newsfeesdds
beta test starts in mid-April
http://www.empirical.com/u-media.html

Info Filtering Resources
http://www.enee.umd.edu/medlab/filter/filter.html

List of Freely Available Info Filtering Systems
http://www.enee.umd.edu/medlab/filter/software.html

GroupLens - Collaborative Filtering of UseNet
http://www.cs.umn.edu/Research/GroupLens/grouplens.html

Infoscan - reads and filters e-mail,Usenet - limited to ASCII
documents on your local hard disk
- works with English, French, and Spanish text
- description looked pretty cool
- interface didn't look too intuitive though
http://www.machinasapiens.qc.ca/infoscanang.html

Fast Data Finder - information filtering: filter newsfeeds to
generate personalized brief, search stored e-mail,
etc.
http://paracel.com
http://paracel.com/background/applications.html

Surflogic and Surfbot - given a list of URLS, will go out and
retrieve any changed pages,
- allows you to create and distribute your own agents!
http://www.surflogic.com/home.html

Boston Restaurant Guide - collaborative filtering for choosing
restaurants.
http://www.hubnet.com/

Andreas

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