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One of our primary focus is developing and marketing significantly superior and effective technologies in niche areas.   

We have recently launched a very innovative TimeStretch 1.0 Server which enables intelligent change detection and notification services.  This product is directed mainly towards web portals and e-commerce sites with high traffic and lot of dynamic content to attract and retain users.

Brief overview of TimeStretch 1.0 Server is provided below -

Introducing Revolutionary TimeStretch 1.0 Server 

Need: E-commerce sites are increasingly challenged to create compelling web experiences for their users that will lead to higher site traffic, repeat visitors, and ultimately increased loyalty and user satisfaction.  Combining the fact that internet content is growing exponentially with thousands of new sites and millions of web pages being added daily and people are so stressed for lack of free time, the ability to allow users to dynamically track & manage the information they need to know and when they need it most, can be of huge value to the net users.

Product:  TimeStretch is an innovative server based product that tracks any changes of content (including text, numbers, images etc.) on  the world wide web and delivers personal notifications through a variety of methods including email, instant messengers, cell-phones, PDAs etc.  

TimeStretch is capable of monitoring granular changes to web content allowing  websites to  offer many value added information to their users based on their requirement to build strong loyalty.   

Using TimeStretch server, websites can allow end-users to  choose what they want to know, where they want to know,  when they want to know and how they want to know about the information and content of that web site in particular and entire web in general.  

For example, websites might give options to its users to get notified when

  • new product/service of their interest is available

  • product of their interest is in stock or out of stock

  • price of product service is less than or greater than threshold

  • articles contains particular words/phrases of their interest or even if article is about a particular topic of interest

  • any info related to weather/traffic/news specific to users

  • updates when new items in the user defined "search" list results etc. etc. 

When registered users receive an email notification telling them that a specific product, service, price, or promotion they were looking for is available, the website site is working for them around-the-clock. This extends the relationship of website to beyond the time user spend browsing the site and thus creates a deep bonding between the site and the user.

Benefits to customers (websites):

  • Differentiate from competition:  Customers can position themselves as provider of valued added "web services" and thus get farther from competition.  Each "web service" can provide creative advertising material for Website to attract attention in a crowded field (for eg., messages like "be the first one to know when your favorite book is available on paperback" etc.). This should increase the number of new users to visit/register at Website at significantly lower customer acquisition cost.

  • Superior web experience: It will simplify life online for Website users by directly addressing the challenge of info-glut combined with time famine. Website users can now remain on top of information they care about!   This will lead to significantly higher repeat customer visits which is the key to long term loyalty.

  • Faster Path to Profitability: Big and growing base of loyal users will translate to higher e-commerce revenues and more advertisement & sponsorship revenues for website. Moreover, email notifications will provide a rich source of advertisements and other promotional material.  

  • Rich Data Mining:  Websites will able to obtain a broad range of user information like content/web sites of their interest, products and services of interest with individual price points and strike prices etc. Armed with this data, Website and its partner sites can optimize their offerings and initiatives to harvest the full potential for e-commerce.

Technology:

The TimeStretchTM server software is built on top of the patent pending Cowacs technology developed by NetAce Technologies. 

Cowacs  is a scalable XML-based engine for rapidly defining, enhancing, customizing, and combining web and communication activities.  Cowacs enables creation and execution of monitoring tasks that

  • Interact with customer site contents as well as external sites, intranets and custom data sources.

  • Allow rich functionality such as data filtering, transformation, and integration of data from diverse websites

to deliver user programmable web services.

The InfogramTM outputs of the monitoring tasks can be directed to Email, cell phone, pager, or PDA.

The extensible Cowacs platform enables rapid creation of sophisticated, yet easy to use tasks depending on customer needs.

TimeStretch based on Cowacs

Based on user input, TimeStretch creates an XML description of the monitoring/notification task. The Cowacs engine interprets the XML description and fires the task, at specified schedules. Multiple users can share common monitoring to reduce server stress.   It is extremely easy to make the tasks as simple or as complex as desired. 

Net,  websites  now using TimeStretch can enable highly innovative and useful monitoring tasks for their users. Through an easy to use browser based interface, Website users can customize these tasks to their needs and get notified via Infograms TM delivered to their e-mailboxes.

Key Features of TimeStretch:

  • Scalable and Flexible Architecture

  • Depending on usage levels, TimeStretch servers can be added with near-linear scalability.

  • TimeStretch can be run directly on the webserver, or on any number of distinct servers.

  • The software supports easy integration into a site to support the site’s look and feel

  • Extensible XML based technology

  • Ease of administration focused towards reducing Total Cost of Ownership

  • Powerful customizable reporting and data-mining capabilities

System Requirements

Windows NT Server 4.0 with a minimum of 128MB RAM

10 MB disk space for TimeStretch installation

Microsoft SQL Server 7.0

IIS 4.0

More on TimeStretch and Cowacs soon!!