Broadcatch Technologies

Related Work and Resources

Commercial personalized media systems

Alexa

a free Web navigation service that gives you detailed info on where you are and then recommends where to go next based on the actions of the entire Internet community.

BroadVision

BackWeb

set up broadcast channels that deliver any existing content or software you have (including Director files, multimedia, Java, and plug-ins) directly to your users via the Internet or Intranet during idle connection time

Cupcakes

"Cupcakes sweeten the Web in a way cookies can't and without the caloric ethical issues that weigh cookies down."

Crayon

CReAte Your Own Newspaper

Dynamo Profile Station

by ATG

Relevent

by Ensemble

Firefly

A personal recommendation agent from Firefly Network, Inc. (was: Agents, Inc.)

My Yahoo is run using Firefly technology

fishWrap from the MediaLab

The evolution of NewsPeek;

theGIST

Personalized TV listings

GroupLens

A collaborative filtering system by Net Perceptions, Inc.

Individual's NewsPage (First!)

One of the first commercial personalized news services

The Lucent Personalized Web Assistant

A proxy service that provides personalization, privacy & security.

MetaCrawler

MovieCritic

Pick movies based upon simple statistical analysis

Narrowline

"a comprehensive transaction system for both buyers and sellers of Internet media that [enables] real-time transacting and precise media placement while also encouraging consumer trust by adopting privacy practices."

NewsHound

developed for the San Jose Mercury News, now run by Knight Ridder

Personify

Compresses user preferences using sota psycho-graphic mechanisms

Used to be called Affinicast

PHOAKS - People Helping One Another Know Stuff

from AT&T Research

PointCast

PCN - a damn-fine screen saver

PowerStart

by Netscape

RareGroove

another music recommendation system

SelectCast

by Aptex - "The Content Mining Company"

SiteSeer

collaborative bookmarks by Imana (& TopSpin?)

Syskill & Webert

a software agent that learns to rate pages on the World Wide Web (WWW), deciding what pages might interest a user using two criteria:

1. user ratings on a three point scale, and
2. by analyzing the actual information on a page.

WBI (pronounced "webby")

an electronic Internet "buddy" that keeps track of users' Internet activity and generally helps make Web browsing simpler and easier. WBI uses intelligent agent technology to reduce the Internet's complexity, helping both experienced and inexperienced users.

WebWatcher

A "tour guide" for the web

See also: Personal WebWatcher

Going beyond simple profiles

6DOS

Six Degrees of Separation

Agorics

Joule

BASAR - Building Agents Supporting Adaptive Retrieval

"Software agents use data about the task has to be done, data about the World-Wide Web and data about the desired notification. This corresponds to a trisection of the tasks of software agents into task, network and interface agents in the system architecture."

Broadcatch™ Technologies

Electric Communities

Developing secure, scalable Internet-based social systems and virtual communities.

InfoSleuth (MCC)

semantic agents that carry out coordinated searches and cooperate with each other to merge retrieved data into understandable information

See: The Role of Java in InfoSleuth: Agent-based Exploitation of Heterogeneous Information Resources

Harvest

an integrated set of tools to gather, extract, organize, search, cache, and replicate relevant information across the Internet

marimba

Castanet distributes up-to-date self-installing software and data

Bongo is a visual tool for designing and implementing graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for Java applications

SmarTV™

an intelligent info-gatherer before its time

Stanford Digital Library project

to develop the enabling technologies for a single, integrated and "universal" library

builds an information architecture by analyzing and structuring content of existing information structures

StarPoint Software

Affinity Server and Ad System for Castanet

Thematics

Conceptual access to text and media

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Yenta

A sort of coalition-building or matchmaking system that will provide privacy-protected, distributed, automatic generation of clusters of users who are interested in similar topics.

Papers, Bibliographies & Other Research

The @gency

Includes some agent definitions, laboratory project, and more

AgentWeb (UMBC)

AgentNews Webletter

Agents Info

A bibliography of online papers on agents

Project Aristotle

Excellent resource listing of works in progress relating to the automated categorization of web resources

Beyond Bookmarks: Schemes for Organizing the Web

a clearinghouse of Web sites that have applied or adopted standard classification schemes or controlled vocabularies to organize or provide enhanced access to Internet resources

MCC's DAI mailing list

lots of current research on distributed agent technologies

delite

advanced retrieval support for digital libraries

Dienst

A protocol for a Distributed Digital Document Library

Habanero

a collaborative framework and set of applications that allow users to share tasks from remote locations in real time over the Internet

See also: Framework for Integrated Synchronous And Asynchronous Collaboration (ISAAC)

History Of Use and Community Based Navigation

Information Archiving with Bookmarks: Personal Web Space Construction and Organization

why people make bookmarks, and how they create, use, and organize them

Thesis: Intelligent Software Agents in the Internet*

an inventory of currently offered functionality in the information society & a prediction of (near-)future developments (by Björn Hermans)

Information Retreival and Information Filtering (IRIF) Course

see also:

Perspecta

Server side information management system with navigation and visualization clients. Uses semantic nets.

Session Tracking, Logging & Demographics

W3C: Privacy (was: Demographics, Measurement, and Identity)

Report of the Distributed Indexing/Searching Workshop

Held May 28-29, 1996 in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Mail Archives

www-demographics@w3.org

www-logging@w3.org

www-talk@w3.org, April 1995 (Session tracking thread)

Extended Log File Format

W3C Working Draft WD-logfile-960221

Session Identification URI

W3C Working Draft WD-session-id-960221
(Extends State Info [Kristol95] and Netscape "Cookies")

Commercial Realizations

SiteTrack

a commercial session-tracking system

W3.com

site tracking, page customization and Web traffic analysis

"Physical" Realizations (Virtual Worlds)

The Contact Consortium

Earth to Avatars (E2A) conference San Francisco, October 26

Hot Links to the Virtual Worlds Industry

Electric Communities

Social Engineering & Global Information Marketplace Technology

EC Links

Habitat

The first habitat was developed at Lucasfilm in 1985 by Randy Farmer and Chip Morningstar

Living Worlds

Making VRML 2.0 Applications Interpersonal and Interoperable

OZ Interactive

agents with attitude

RealSpace - RealVR technology

combines QuickTime VR-type technology with VRML

Talk City

A new form of interactive chat

Universal Avatars Specification - an overview

This paper proposes an extension to the emerging VRML standard, to specify avatar descriptions (i.e., user representations).

Note: draft 2 of 1-23-97 has been posted.

Universal Worlds

an open Java/VRML 2.0 API

More Protocols (see also: Software Engineering)

Resource Description Messages (more or less obsolete)

a mechanism to discover and retrieve metadata about network-accessible resources

STARTS

Stanford Protocol Proposal for Internet Retrieval and Search

Whois++ (September 1995)

Digger

Z39.50 - ISO application layer standard for network information retrieval - Maintenance Agency

Z39.50 public domain toolkit