Menu and Hours from Michelle Jones on Vimeo.

Just heard a crazy stat: 65% of internet users stated that the amount of information coming at them daily had grown year over year by 50%.  And then I read about two new cool web services…

1) this cool new search engine call Sortable.com that lets you “skip the search” - or at least the google part of it - when buying stuff online.  

2) this cool new restaurant finder called ‘menu and hours’. the mobile app solution for “TMI” foodie apps like Urban Spoon.

Let’s get real - google search is not going away.  But these - along with the continued growth of social over search for time spent online - are good indicators that there is growing frustration with the amount of crap on the internet that you have to wade through.  In 2012 people will be increasingly looking for tools that help them filter.

here’s the study

http://www.slideshare.net/steverosenbaum/the-digital-lifestyle-survey