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Paralyzed By Indecision? Let The Intranets Decide!

Topics: Technology | 2 CommentsBy admin | May 8, 2009

Sites like Let Simon Decide and Hunch help you make the decisions that your tech overload has rendered you unable to make.


Would you let this man
pick a college for you?

Great. Now that our minds are paralyzed by the wealth of choices presented by the Internet, our mobile devices, and the toothpaste aisle (I’m serious. On a lark I counted 47 toothpaste options at a local CVS the other day), the biggest offender of this group -the Internet – is trying to play nicey-nicey and help us make the decisions that it spent all that time rendering us incapable of making. Let Simon Decide takes your input and uses sophisticated algorithms to help you make decisions like “Where should I live?” and “Should I sell my house?” I wanted to use the site to ask it if I should use it, but it wouldn’t let me, without creating an account. Now I’ll never know if I should try it. My favorite endorsement on the site is from Amy, of Los Angeles, who says “WOWWWW I seriously love it!!! I asked it where I should live and it really helped me realize where the best location is.” I could’ve told her, just based on her spelling of the word “wow”. Along the same lines as Let Simon Decide, we have hunch, created by flickr founder Caterina Fake. Although it’s invite-only as of this writing, Mashable has a good overviewof how it works here. If you’re traveling (or even if you’re not, it’s kind of amusing anyway) Joobili lets you set a date range, and then it tells you where to go. Save some time and add a comment here on Dissociated Press. I’ll tell you were to go.

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  1. Posted by Genghis Macleod on 05.09.09 12:30 pm

    Currently I am following this and other new sites, I have read articles about Let Simon Decide on Tech Crunch, Mashable Tweetreach, and now I found this one of you. BTW, I like the introduction of your article.

    I haven’t used the site yet, I am thinking about a good decision to test its capabilities, and those of Hunch.com as well.

    Now, I don’t understand your refusal to register. In guess that if you need to make an important decision, you want to keep it private -not leave it public, right? Probably this is reason behind the registration. Besides, once you register you can use the site and then write a more compelling article like the ones I mentioned above.

  2. Posted by admin on 05.10.09 11:12 am

    Hey Ghengis, thanks for sharing your thoughts. You should think about getting a marketing job with Let Simon Decide, you’ve almost talked me into trying it! We’ll be taking a more in-depth look at sites like this as Dissociated Press evolves from a link-aggregator to a more magazine-like format this year.