WhereIsNow is going to make it easy for you to update all your information, your documents, your internet links, your contacts.
WhereIsNow, in fact, provide self updating documents, evergreen link and self updating contacts
Self-updating Documents:
The problem
Documents become out of date too rapidly, renamed and moved from one location to another very frequently.
From the user's point of view
How many times, while reading a document, you have thought "is this one the latest version? If not, where can I find it?"
Up to now, you probably satisfy this need asking someone confirmation or using a search with the hope you have found the right one.
How much time do you spend and waste seeking? And after the pursuit... are you sure that it really concerns with the latest version?
Consider if the document itself could redirect you to its latest version, permitting you to be always updated avoiding errors and making the search useless!!!
From the publisher's point of view
The purpose of who publish a document is to inform the user that a new version of a document has become available.
E-mails, articles, calls are all publishers' means of action used in order to give a piece of advice or news.
But, are all the customers so diligent to verify if new versions of a document, they already have, had become available?
Consider if the document itself could allow your customers to be always updated on your initiatives in the moment they need to know it!!!
The Solution
WhereIsNow™ always provides the addresses where you can find the latest version of a document.
Application
The main way to query the service is to get through WhereIsNow™ website and use the Key-Search functionality. Further on everyone can develop its application without any limits neither to sectors nor to functionalities they want to satisfy.
What kind of document?
For WhereIsNow™, a document is any object capable to communicate (i.e. images, text, video, audio ...) regardless of its format or of the way to distribute it.
Evergreen Link:
An evergreen link is a small html string that you can embed into your web pages or emails to allow people to find always the latest version of a document with just a click.
Give an example: let's assume you are looking for a new job, so you put your resume onwww.fakejobsearchdirectory.com, then you start sending emails to recruiting offices and posting on job search forums saying "Hello, take look at my profile on www.fakejobsearchdirectory.com/john_doe".
After a couple of months Fakejobsearchdirectory.com suddenly closes your account because of inactivity or you simply decide that you want to put your curriculum vitae on your blog.
Now you should go back to every forum you posted the link on and update it, then you have to send emails to every recruiting office you contacted before to tell them where to find the new document.
If you had used a WhereIsNow™ evergreen link in the first place, now you should just log in on your WhereIsNow™ control panel and update the information of the document containing your resume by editing its address.
From that moment on, every time somebody click on the evergreen link the WhereIsNow™ service will seamlessly redirect him to the new address.
Self-updating contacts:
This new kind of contact permit you to always:
- provide your updated contact information to your friends, colleagues and relatives exactly in the moment they need it;
- receive the updated information from all your contacts exactly in the moment you need it.
A WhereIsNow™ self updating contact is like any other WhereIsNow™ document.
You register the information about your address, phone or mobile number, operator, email, Skype and much more on WhereIsNow™ (or wherever you want), and WhereIsNow™ associates the couple <PublisherID, DocumentID> to this contact's document. Finish!
You only have to communicate the <PublisherID, DocumentID> WhereIsNow™ Key of your contact document to every people you want to stay in touch. There is no need to inform anyone about your contact changes (email, mobile, fax ...). Just tell your friends and colleagues your WhereIsNow™ key once, and they will be always able to find your latest contact information.
So, you don't have to worry about communicating if your address, your phone or your email has changed! When this happens, simply update your contact document with new information and register a new version of your contact document.
WhereIsNow is a solution which can apply to every kind of updatable information and so we have to compete with great companies already present on the market.
KnowledgeTree and Documentum are the most important Document Management Systems on the market. These are products which store documents while WhereIsNow store addresses. WhereIsNow simply provides the address "Where" the updated version of your document "Is Now". WhereIsNow is both an alternative and additional solution to traditional Document Management Systems.
So, WhereIsNow provide addresses. Who else, except for WhereIsNow, provides addresses?
Search Engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing, Shared Bookmarks services like Digg or Delicious and Url Shortener services like Bit.ly or Tr.im. They all provide addresses!
The main difference is that no one of these services provide evergreen links.
With these services you will continue to experiment a "page not found" when the page has been moved to a new location.
And, finally, in order to avoid struggling to find the new email address of your ex-colleague, at the moment you can use Plaxo or Unyk.
WhereIsNow is really different from these services, and the main difference is that with WhereIsNow you are free to store your data on your home-PC or your company server.
I want to highlight this aspect: consider the case of a company. Do you think it may give toPlaxo or Unyk all its contact information? With WhereIsNow, this company can provide self updating contacts while preserving its data.