Brad Myers - Get Your Geek On

While scanning thru my Outlook RSS feeds, which are different than the Site Feeds I read on my google homepage, I ran across this link in Robert Scoble's Scobleizer blog. It's about a site written by Francis Shanahan that will do extensive background Recon on a product that you are shopping for. It looks like the page was originally called "Longtail" which I think is a catchy name. Longtail refers to the idea that a product would be too costly to keep on a traditional brick-and-mortar store due to the storage, shipping and other costs. However because of the lack of inventory costs and things associated, an online retailer can keep those one of a kind and hard to find items available for sale. The site now has the name BaeBo.. which..means nothing to me. :) It's cool in that it will automatically use the API's provided by Amazon, Yahoo, Google, Flickr, Ebay and others, and provide you with everything you could want to know about it. A nice use of combining a lot of disparate info into one useful page that can notify you via RSS of something you want to keep an eye on.