Expect Labs has launched its much-talked-about MindMeld
intelligent assistant app to showcase its platform for
predicting information you need online without having to search
for it.  MindMeld, which costs $3.99 and is English-only, is
powered by Expect Labs’s “anticipatory computing engine.” It’s
essentially a voice chat app that can listen to conversations of
up to eight people and pull up related links based on context.
If you find something useful, you can bookmark it for later and
share it with other participants. In solo mode, the app works
like a sounding board, grabbing results as you verbalize your
ideas.  Based on our experience, the app is really cool, but it
doesn’t live up to all the hype. For starters, the voice
recognition, which is powered by Nuance, had trouble picking up
what I was saying, even when using a headset. MindMeld lets you
manually edit snippets of transcribed text as they line up along
the left column, but that kind of defeats the purpose of an
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