October 30, 2003

Operational Efficiency

I recently purchased a robot - I turn it on; it vacuum's my floor.

This idea of automated vacuuming is pretty cool - we have 3800 square feet of floor space that takes a fair amount of energy to keep clean. With our robot (named Roomba), We still have to pick up the house a bit before letting it lose, but we're free to do other things while it goes about its singular objective. Although we get all that time back, we occasionally watch in awe as the little creature attempts to optimize its path while working around and under obstacles. Ironic that we spend our free time watching the tool that created the free time. And we're not the only ones watching - I think the cat wants to ride it.

When we set out to build the MyST platform, our objective was to manufacture time through many different processes. Like Roomba, I love to watch our newest product, Net Intelligence. It uses our Google Gear scripting engine and Weblog Application Server to execute lots of queries for the purpose of building research content. MyST Google Gears execute about 5,000 queries a week on behalf of our customers, helping them with a variety of information gathering tasks ranging from competitive intelligence to tracking partner and reseller sites for product promotion compliance.

Like Roomba, we manufacture time and create operational efficiency. If you'd like to hear more about Net Intelligence, drop us a note.