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Personalized Broadcasts and Print Resources

Now that so much information is available on the Web and other channels of communications a need has emerged to provide information, tailored to a user's preferences and interests...

Now that so much information is available on the Web and other channels of communications a need has emerged to provide information, tailored to a user's preferences and interests. Each of these tools specializes.

EntryPoint (formerly Pointcast) has partnered with hundreds of content providers. Backweb provides clever technology rather than content.

A.L.I.C.E. (ALICE or Artificial Linguistic Computer Entity) is a Java chatterbot--an elf which can be sent around to look for chat topics of interest to a user. What other wizards will be invented?

These products have been developed with the business market in mind. For educators--teachers or librarians--, though, they function as important timesavers and encourage students to link current events with whatever topics they may be pursuing.