Follow Bee

Follow Bee is a web contents monitoring utility, meant to aid competitive intelligence (CI). This utility checks the web pages after given time interval, and reports you if it finds any change in the web page contents. The intended users of Follow Bee are higher level executives, marketing personnel, business development executives and all others, whose main information source is the web.

You can use this utility to monitor your competitor’s web pages (like products page, press releases and news, customer wins etc). Whenever this utility finds any change on web pages being monitored, it alerts you, as well as it finds out all the changed locations and shows you the actual change on pages by highlighting them! Thus, you need not worry about what exactly has changed – as this utility is capable of showing it to you.

This utility is being developed as a desktop application. Hence, you need not keep the browsers open all the time, nor you need to manually refresh them or employ anybody to do this checking for you. Install this, and that’s it!

I have designed this utility in such a way that it consumes very lesser space on your desktop. It also have many configurable options such as, time interval between two subsequent checks, when to notify you (ranging from ‘Notify Always’ to ‘Notify only if change found’ to ‘Never Notify’). Follow Bee is planned to get released on 26th January 2010, but there can be a slight change in the release date, if needed.