Sunday, March 4, 2007

Web 2.0 Service: Multi-Task Manager

New studies are continuously released about how our performance decreases when multitasking (task + email, driving + cellphone). Sometimes, we need someone or something to keep track of our schedule and general information. Adobe Apollo can be simultaneously online and on the desktop, enabling globalization of personal settings. Default settings could be set from a short personal matrix or a global database of typical settings and then be tweaked by the user for preferred arrangement, which could be saved on a server to be accessed at any computer.

Market: A product like this would have a broad market and could be used for practically anything. Companies, schools, and large organizations could utilize this as an individual productivity booster and individuals can use this for their personal lives.

Competition: Traditional organization methods would be the main competition. Cost and ease of use probably would be the main concern.

Potential Expansion:
- Speech-to-text commands and task input (since speech is faster than writing)
- Create a complete company productivity system
- Customized for niche markets

Other Thoughts:
- Many different methods of input are necessary which may prove difficult to streamline. Syncing with particular softwares will have to be updated every time a new device comes out, and handwriting recognition will need to be optimized for writing-to-text recognition.
- Standards might have to be set for emails for assignment and due date if an elaborate analysis algorithm is not written

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