just discover

Friends and family--

I am sending you a brief email to let you know about a website developed by Michael Kuhn and I that offers a unique way to browse and view amazon products.
If you are interested in purchasing the products, the payment, processing, and shipping go directly through amazon (helping your local grad students with some referral $ in the process).
Any which way, it doesn't cost you any more, and it helps us out, so it shouldn't have any drawbacks.

First, a brief tour...

The main page is located here:
http://discover.chainofthoughts.com

On the main page, the top-rated products are shown on the left (click on an image anytime to go to amazon for more details, or to purchase).
Related tags to these products are located in the center.
On the right top products by category are located in the directory structure (click the pluses to expand).

To perform a search type anything in the box at the top and hit enter.
After that the top products related to that search appear on the left, related tags in the center, and categories of top products on the right.

If you click a tag, it is exactly like performing a search.
So often it will help you identify other related products (based on two actors in the same movie, musicians who have collaborated, or book author's etc).

Finally, the box at the bottom shows you in which category you are searching (starts off at "All").
For example, if you want to search for DVD's only, click the "DVD" link at the bottom.
This will make the word "DVD" larger at the bottom indicating all the results on the left and the tags are in the category (note that the categories on the right will still search in their respective categories).


Take care,

brandon + mike

PS if you have any feedback on making the site more intuitive or navigable. Please feel free to drop me a line.