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Seeker Solutions Announces the Launch of Sprout
Monday, October 27, 2008
VICTORIA, British Columbia--Seeker Solutions announced today its official release of Sprout 1.0, a free, online, personalized news aggregator software that allows users to obtain the latest top news stories and blogs tailored to their unique and individual preferences. Seeker Solutions created Sprout to solve the challenges of trying to sift through mass amounts of information online. As Internet users become more pressed for time, Sprout enables every user to effortlessly find news articles or blogs that are relevant to them.
Seeker Solutions’ unique relationship-based software engine that powers Sprout allows users to easily access a wide-range of content from thousands of news sources and blogs. Once Sprout is conveniently downloaded to the user’s computer, users are able to immediately begin training their Sprout interface with their individual interests.
Sprout RSS feed aggregator software is a concept created by a team of young entrepreneurs in Victoria, B.C. who had a vision of making life easier by finding maximum efficiency where people and technology come together. In searching for a solution to information overload, Seeker Solutions has created a powerful relevancy engine that has wide-reaching applications anywhere data is overwhelming. With Sprout, a light consumer-level infotainment product, Seeker Solutions is able to highlight the power of relevant, cross referenced results; in this case, personally relevant news and blog articles.
“Before Sprout, using search engines or news services to obtain news that interests you required extensive searching; you had to know exactly what you wanted every time or flounder through reams of irrelevant information,” said Duncan MacRae, founder and Director of Operations. “With Sprout, you no longer have to do that. You save time and only get the news you want.”
MT Mind Technology Changes Company Name to Seeker Solutions Inc.
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
VICTORIA, BC, Canada. – July 15, 2008 – MT Mind Technology - the creators of Sprout ( www.yoursprout.ca) - announced that effective immediately, the company has re-branded to Seeker Solutions, Incorporated. Seeker Solutions develops and provides solutions that allow their own unique cataloguing algorithm to map data more intelligently. Seeker Solutions’ main thrust is to maximize the return and quality of searches.
“Information overload has become a waste of precious time,” said Duncan MacRae, founder and president of Seeker Solutions. He adds, “All of us at Seeker Solutions belong to the internet generation – we know how difficult it has become to weed through everything. That’s why we are coming up with new technologies to make things more efficient for users – better ways of searching and better ways of knowing what each user wants.”
This change in name is part of the company’s recent re-branding strategy. Beginning this fall, Seeker Solutions will announce new software solutions for optimized searching both online and off.
About Seeker Solutions
Seeker Solutions Inc. is based in Victoria, BC, Canada. Founded in 2006, the company is developing innovative technologies that enable users to source for relevant content. The company’s search methodologies and unique cataloguing algorithms allow for continuous user recognition for truly customized searches. For more information about the company, please visit us at www.http://www.yoursprout.com/about.html. Or contact, Catherine Prestwich at cprestwich@seekersol.ca and 250-483-4129.
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MT Mind Launches Sprout
Monday, February 11, 2008
Vancouver, BC, February 11, 2008--(T-Net)--MT Mind Technology announced the launch of its first product, Sprout, as a public beta on February 8th, 2008. Sprout is a new platform that sources hyper-personal online content. Sprout learns the user's likes and dislikes based on simple positive and negative feedback. Designed with no initial set-up and a low cognitive load, users can start cultivating their content immediately.
To try Sprout for yourself, check out www.yoursprout.ca.
Located at the Vancouver Island Technology Park in Victoria, BC, MT Mind Technology was founded in 2006 by Evan Willms and Duncan MacRae. The company is developing solutions for individuals and organizations to effortlessly avoid information overload.
Contact:
Duncan MacRae
250-483-4129
dmacrae@mtmindtechnology.ca
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http://www.vitp.ca/content.aspx?id=1498&terms=sprout&searchtype=0&fragment=True
Saanich News Reports: Convenience in MT Minds
Friday, February 01, 2008
Written by Roszan Holmen, Saanich News Staff
With umpteen hundred news articles available daily on the Internet, finding ones of interest is the challenge two young entrepreneurs are trying to solve with their new company, MT Mind Technology.
The name is more than just a “terrible pun,” explains Evan Willms. “The state of the empty mind is our goal,” he said. He and partner Duncan MacRae’s flagship product, Sprout, is designed to deliver articles of interest to clients based on their own preferences.
While other article-finding applications require set-up time for inputting search criteria, MT Mind constructs a customer profile based on their rating (a sad leaf or happy leaf) given to previous articles.
As clients rate more and more articles, their profile is refined to their tastes.
The key is to totally focus on what you’re doing without worrying about how you’re doing it, hence the empty mind.
“What we’re really offering is sort of an info-tainment,” said Willms. “We’re trying to pull things that you’re not going to find any other way, so it could be a New York Times article (or) on the other hand, it equally could be an indepth blog posting from someone you’ve never heard of ... We’re not replacing things like your daily newspaper or your trade-specific magazine because those are very topically focused and we’re drawing from a much bigger pool.”
MacRae and Willms, old high school buddies both turning 23 this month, ditched their degrees mid-way through to launch the company.
“Being so young and having no other experience, to make a choice to leave school ... is of course, daunting but has proven to be an incredibly interesting choice,” said MacRae.
After a year working out of a basement, they were selected to join the Vancouver Island Technology Park’s incubator, an area of cheap rental space reserved for new entrepreneurs who show promise.
“We take a look at their business plan and we see if they are doing any innovative things where we can see a potential growth,” said Av Hundle, manager of business development and marketing at the park.
While other companies have taken about a year to “graduate” from the incubator, Hundle said MT Mind is the fastest to move on to be full-fledged clients.
On Feb. 9, MacRae and Willms are launching their Sprout pilot to the public. Visit their website at www.mtmindsoftware.ca.
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http://www.vitp.ca/content.aspx?id=1484&terms=sprout&searchtype=0&fragment=True
