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[[ThomasMalone]] mentions [[InformationLens]] on his page.

Q: What is an [[InformationLens]] and what does it do?

The Information Lens: An Intelligent System for Information Sharing in Organizations

Problem addressed: efficient means of sharing information

Current situation:

*      Too  much information to share
*      Too many people to share information with.
*      No automated protocal to get information to the people who want/need it
*      &#8220;Junk mail&#8221;

The Information lens is proposed to be a general comprehensive solution that intends to &#8220;[[help]] people filter, sort, and prioritize messages that are already addressed to them, and it also helps them find useful messages they would not otherwise have received.&#8221; (461)

 Malone, T. W.; Grant, K. R.; Turbak, F. A.; The Information Lens: An Intelligent System for Information Sharing in Organizations; In Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI'86 Conference Proceedings (Boston, MA); ACM: New York, 1986; pp 1-8.

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Sounds like:
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-946952.html

Banter is making a product that learns how a user deals with their email (answers which ones first, just deletes from person X or mention project Y, etc), and appropriately acts that way (moving 'user opens from Person X first' to top of inbox, etc).
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Also sounds like [[PubWan]], or guerrilla consumer education.  If so, pleaze count me in