Main: AgentFrank
Agent Frank is a personal proxy. I'm downloading it as we speak.
If you've known me for a while or you've read my blog for any length of time, you know I like search engines. The way they find meaning in what they interpret as zeroes and ones compared to what we interpret as language, symbols, etc is interesting. I've looked at different sorting algorithms, different indexing techniques, and spidering technology. I've also experimented with AIML (artificial intelligence markup language) and some other weirdness that fits in as well.
When you put the personal web proxy in a bowl and stir in all of the other pieces, you get a pretty interesting product. You have a piece of software that can learn about you, teach you, answer our questions, and do things foryou/on your behalf. Having some company be in charge of this is scary. Having a program on my computer that does it for me sounds like fun.
What could it do you ask? I'm not really sure, but it seems to me that it could do a lot. From checking the weather to aggregating feeds to finding news that's important to you to checking stockquotes against your portfolio to remembering birthday's and anniversaries to remembering what sites you've visited and how you got there and how you can get back.
It seems to me that all of the pieces are around us and by assembling them we'll gain a lot. To me, it's just a question of when...
Hey there - Agent Frank doesn't do much of what I want it to do yet, but I think it's a good first foothold. Sounds like you know a bit about the things I want to learn about and implement in Agent Frank. Hope it works for you and seems interesting :)