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Zemanta API user: myBantu

Posted by andraz, under Uncategorized on March 2nd, 2010

At Zemanta we’re big fans of computers going an extra mile for us lazy humans. Ever increasing processing power and abundance of implicit and explicit data are going to provide fuel for this mile.

myBantu personal manager

myBantu smart personal manager

Services that had looked impossible only a few years ago will become reality. Ones helping us book a restaurant, find the right movie at the right place and using the knowledge about who we are and what we like. Technologies we were watching on TV for decades, always believing they are just around the corner. Well now maybe they are!

We’re happy when we can do our small part in bringing such services to life. In December last year I’ve noticed one very heavy user of Zemanta API under the name of Glomantra. I’ve contacted them and soon I’ve met three Indian entrepreneurs in San Francisco, eager to tell me about what a cool product they are working on.

In the beginning of February they have unveiled their service to the public in its beta stage – myBantu. myBantu is a “smart personal manager”. In Indian it supposedly means a entirely private assistant. You are supposed to ask “him” questions and it generates results that can then be sent to your friends for opinions or acted upon in different ways – direct booking, related items, etc.

They are using many different technologies in the background, pulling data from sites like Yelp, Yahoo and others and mashing it up into a useful tool. Zemanta API is just one piece of the puzzle helping them understand text to a certain degree, extract keywords, etc.

myBantu developers know that this is just a starting point. Now they want to get feedback, listen to it and iterate. So you are invited to try out myBantu and tell them what you think at feedback@mybantu.com.

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