Ugh Bookmarks!
The problem? We save too much crap. We save too many bookmark organizers- stumbleupon, delicious, instapaper, evernote, browser favorites, folders on my desktop!!
Keeping up with the flow of DATA on the web these days is a billion dollar game- everyone is thinking about how to fix this problem, most however, are taking you out the equation. ParsePlz keeps you in control and does the hard work for you, and its a bit different in that it doesn’t curate content, it actually just gives you more clues to potential future content.
ParsePlz was a dual goal project. We wanted to do two things, 1- solve the bookmark clutter problem I personally experienced and wanted to fix, and 2- dabble in content analysis and play some API’s. Links have lots of information in them, we wanted to pull that out along the way and see what was in there, and learn a bit.
ParsePlz grew and is currently on iteration 3, morphing more and more refining and learning whats sticky, whats tasty and whats not with ourselves and our users.
Analysis Became the Richer Story
In the beginning I wanted to create a system that would eat everything I threw at it, save the “trace” of it, tell me where to find more, and then purge it all! I lost out on the purge idea- that may come back!! But the big winner was the analysis engine. ParsePlz learns what you save, and finds other people that think like you, giving you new potential discovery material.
ParsePlz is in its 4th iteration now, stay tuned!