Getting the best deals… Check out decide.com

A useful article in the New York Times today, just in time for the holidays. A new site that tries to forecast the best time to buy that item you really want. It seems to draw a graph showing how the price of, for example, a Nikon 50-300mm Zoom Lens has varied over the last 3 months and whether I should buy it today or wait till next month. It's a very nicely done site and if it works, it could be very useful. The site is decide.com.

"Oren Etzioni writes articles about artificial intelligence for scholarly journals, is a renowned expert on data mining and gained fame when Microsoft paid $115 million for Farecast, an airline-ticket price predictor he founded.

Now, Professor Etzioni, who teaches computer science at the University of Washington, has directed his considerable intellect at the American ritual of shopping for bargains on Black Friday. After examining billions of prices of consumer electronics, he has decided to spend the busiest shopping day of the year scuba-diving in Bali." (from The New York Times)

Oh, the site is decide.com.