New Year … One Website Does Your Resolutions for You … Almost

Quick Pitch: Dorthy.com lets users create living pages about anything they want to achieve, and connect with others with similar goals.

Genius Idea: Making resolutions at the start of the new year is a practice that dates back long before our time. Of course in recent years numerous websites and applications have popped up to help us stay on track. You can count Dorthy’s new alpha service among that group. The site brings with it a convenient twist to make your goals and dreams all the more achievable.

Whatever your desired achievement, Dorthy does the dirty work for you. You specify something that you want to accomplish — like gaining muscle or losing 20 pounds — and Dorthy will automatically build a living page replete with resources to help you beat the odds and stay true to your resolutions. These pages are called dreampages and they’re composed of two key elements: dynamic video, photos, blog posts and news articles scraped from across the web, and your custom action plan of specific goals, notes, saved items and activity history.

Another interesting tidbit is that Dorthy claims to be user-action-oriented in serving up content, which means that your behaviors and interaction with content on your dreampages will influence future recommendations.

As with most sites these days, Dorthy incorporates a number of different ways to make your dreampages a socially shared experience. Should you keep your pages public, you can share content and on-site activity with Facebook and Twitter. You can also add comments and likes to content entities, which are pooled across the site for a broader look at user reactions to videos and blog posts around dreampage topics. Eventually Dorthy will also have a complimentary iPhone app to make keeping up with your action plan and discovering new tips even easier.

The tricky thing about establishing resolutions or setting your mind on a new goal is that no technology in the world will keep you on track if you’re not motivated enough to actually do the work required. If, however, you have the motivation and just need a nudge in the right direction, Dorthy could turn out to be extremely useful in 2010 and beyond.

Source: www.mashable.com