Some serendipity finds
I started to search for online collaboration solution and immediately found several sites as interesting as totally irrelevant to my topic, including:
- Google Trends
- Pandora music service
(rather unexpectedly, I was directed to both by one of the company’s internal blogs)
Google Trends allows you to input a keyword and see a nice chart presenting the news and search volume for this keyword changing in the course of time. Moreover, you can input several keyword and see them stacked together on a chart.
Pandora, on the other hand, is a music service. It’s a music serendipity engine, to give this entry a double bottom. I am so impressed that I will probably devote a separate article just to it. Do not wait, though – give it a try now!
Serendipity definition:
1. The faculty of making fortunate discoveries by accident.
2. The fact or occurrence of such discoveries.
3. An instance of making such a discovery.
A word I was first introduced to by Nick Carr’s article, here. Note interesting discussion on whether Internet is enhancing or killing our ability to experience true serendipity.
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