NetMind
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NetMind Technologies was an Internet
software company founded in February 1996 by Matt Freivald, Mark Richards and Alan Noble.
The company pioneered Internet change detection and notification
(CDN) at a time when most companies were still focused on Internet search. For example, NetMind was the first company to develop so-called persistent search for automatically notifying users of changed search results, a capability developed only much later in products such as Google Alerts
.
NetMind started at the Tech Farm Ventures incubator in Sunnyvale and then rapidly expanded into a headquarters in Campbell and an engineering office in Santa Cruz, California, growing to 60 employees. NetMind's popular "Mind-it" change detection and notification service amassed over 6 million users in less than 4 years. The product was also used by companies like Boeing, Ebay, etc.
In May 1999, NetMind was named one of Upside Magazine's Hot 100 industry startups.
In February 2000, NetMind was acquired by Puma Technologies later renamed Intellisync
and in turn acquired by Nokia
in 2005.
NetMind was granted five US patents in the area of change detection. Change detection and notification (CDN) is assigned to TCP/IP port 2412 with IANA port numbers.
6,012,087 Unique-change detection of dynamic web pages using history tables of signatnatures
5,983,268 Spreadsheet user-interface for an internet-document change-detection tool
5,978,842 Distributed-client change-detection tool with change-detection augmented by multiple clients
5,898,836 Change-detection tool indicating degree and location of change of internet documents by comparison of CRC signatures
Internet
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
software company founded in February 1996 by Matt Freivald, Mark Richards and Alan Noble.
The company pioneered Internet change detection and notification
Change Detection and Notification
Internet change detection and notification refers to automatic detection of changes made to World Wide Web pages and notification to interested users by email or other means. Whereas search engines are designed to find web pages, CDN systems are designed to monitor changes to web pages...
(CDN) at a time when most companies were still focused on Internet search. For example, NetMind was the first company to develop so-called persistent search for automatically notifying users of changed search results, a capability developed only much later in products such as Google Alerts
Google Alerts
Google Alerts is content change detection and notification service, offered by the search engine company Google, that automatically notifies users when new content from news, web, blogs, video and/or discussion groups matches a set of search terms selected by the user and stored by the Google...
.
NetMind started at the Tech Farm Ventures incubator in Sunnyvale and then rapidly expanded into a headquarters in Campbell and an engineering office in Santa Cruz, California, growing to 60 employees. NetMind's popular "Mind-it" change detection and notification service amassed over 6 million users in less than 4 years. The product was also used by companies like Boeing, Ebay, etc.
In May 1999, NetMind was named one of Upside Magazine's Hot 100 industry startups.
In February 2000, NetMind was acquired by Puma Technologies later renamed Intellisync
Intellisync
The Intellisync Corporation is a provider of Data and PIM Synchronization software for mobile devices, such as Cell Phones and PDAs. The company is currently a part of Nokia, after it was acquired in 2006.-History:...
and in turn acquired by Nokia
Nokia
Nokia Corporation is a Finnish multinational communications corporation that is headquartered in Keilaniemi, Espoo, a city neighbouring Finland's capital Helsinki...
in 2005.
NetMind was granted five US patents in the area of change detection. Change detection and notification (CDN) is assigned to TCP/IP port 2412 with IANA port numbers.
Patents
6,219,818 Checksum-comparing change-detection tool indicating degree and location of change of internet documents6,012,087 Unique-change detection of dynamic web pages using history tables of signatnatures
5,983,268 Spreadsheet user-interface for an internet-document change-detection tool
5,978,842 Distributed-client change-detection tool with change-detection augmented by multiple clients
5,898,836 Change-detection tool indicating degree and location of change of internet documents by comparison of CRC signatures