A new web service that started in September takes an interesting approach towards the information overload problem on the web. Yotify takes an approach that covers the ground between search engines and social networks. While search engines provide us with results from all the web and social networks are people and activity centric, Yotify provides a service that lets the user maintain a watch or scout on select sites and be alerted when events occur that meet certain criteria.
This criteria could be the price of an item on Craiglist falling within the limit you are willing to pay or video of a particular video-game showing up on Youtube. You can also create scouts that will post your queries on to facebook or frienfeed, making use of your social network as well. (more…)
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