The Easy Bee
January 31st, 2004I downloaded the trial version of The Easy Bee this evening and played with it for a few minutes. It is basically a web site watching tool (similar to Web Site Watcher - WSW). The one feature that sets Easy Bee apart from WSW is that it allows the user to extract the portion of the page that one wants to keep up with. For example, many pages include ads, linkrolls, javascript enabled dates, etc that users could care less about if they change. With Easy Bee, the user can easy rule out any of these portions of a page. WSW does this with ads but the user needs to use the advanced features to deal with other types of unnecessary content (which takes a bit of maneuvering - not truly difficult, but time consuming). Easy Bee makes it a bit easier.
Thinking about the concept behind Easy Bee, I couldn’t help but parallel it to what RSS is all about. It takes the content (and only the content) from pages and displays it in its pure format.