Grokr is launching a new app for the iPhone that promises to offer the same experience of useful, ambient information that Google is providing on Android with Google Now. It utilizes an interface based on cards (Grokr calls them "tiles") that automatically bubble up useful information based on a wide swath of data the company learns about you. If that doesn't sound enough like Google Now, you can mix in a "Knowledge Graph" that is aware of "entities" in the world and your interest in them.
The interface begins with a stacked list of informational tiles that are presented in a relatively static order. Traffic information is up top, followed up a local tile, and then there's a mix of weather, news, and topics that Grokr's algorithms...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2012/12/11/3755560/grokr-google-now-search-iphone
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