"... A different tack has been taken by the entrepreneur Patrick W. Grady. He has put together a technology team at Rearden Commerce that has already begun to r

"... A different tack has been taken by the entrepreneur Patrick W. Grady. He has put together a technology team at Rearden Commerce that has already begun to reach a business audience with an “intelligent” personal assistant oriented toward travel and entertainment. It will be available early next year for nonbusiness customers as well. Rearden is one of Silicon Valley’s most significantly financed but least known start-ups. ..." Reads like a sub ~ http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html you can read about it (the placement in the NYT tech section) before you can demo it. "... I set out to deliver on the longstanding ‘holy grail of user-centric computing,’ a ‘personal Internet assistant.’ ... Have Mr. Grady or CALO or Siri cracked the code in the half-decade-long quest for a software personal assistant? Ordinary computer users will soon have a chance to find out ..." Better than say Stikkit (folded into Twitter) or RTM ~ http://www.rememberthemilk.com/ http://www.rememberthemilk.com/ ?