A Personal Cognitive Utility (PCU) with Augmented Socio-cognition is Launched for Public Beta by Zahdoo

) April 20, 2009 -- After several months in private beta, Zahdoo is announcing the launch of a limited beta version of the product for public. Zahdoo.com redefines the digital interactivity for the user and augments it with socio cognition using built-in productivity and social networking applications. With features such as auto-tagging, MindU, CADIE- the semantic context guide, Zahdoo.com in essence elevates the human machine interaction by contextually capturing and pushing the relevant content to the users said Satyavardhan Kommareddy, head of product marketing for Zahdoo.


Zahdoo helps users automatically categorize their activities, information and connections into high level contextual mappings and tags. The users will have the ability to define specific rules on how a content tag should be categorized depending on their lifestyle. Zahdoo also provides pre-defined contextual tag guides to quickly navigate and enable users to set up and view their activities and information from a different temporal context or dimension.


Zahdoo helps users build their customized network of content and connections which mimic the real world where information, relationship in a given context is unique. Zahdoo by default keeps the information and connections private for the user but allows for social share and most importantly collaboration by allowing the user to define and control the level of information access and collaboration.


We believe that Zahdoo's core product feature - 'CADIE' will revolutionalize how people perceive, organize and use information and relationships. CADIE is the 'semantic engine' behind Zahdoo.com and does all the heavy lifting in the back end by furiously analyzing, linking and building information relationships. CADIE is NOT a 'search engine'. CADIE helps you understand for a given topic 'what could be out there and what else might be of interest to me' by providing a context guide. CADIE is primed with some initial content which provides inadequate results at this point but experimenting and trying to understand the possibilities will provide insight into the workings of CADIE and the eventual possibilities' said Satyavardhan Kommareddy.


Zahdoo (www.zahdoo.com) provides several other features such as the ability create and share dynamic and rich web pages in less than 2 mins. Zahdoo offers comprehensive planning functionality and the ability to share events and collaborate on tasks and projects. The future release will have the ability to link user's context with external context seamlessly, location awareness, mobile access and will have the ability to automatically invoke, mediate and manage tasks such as reservations, automatic TO-DO's and suggests actions based on user's context.

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