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Improve how time is stored in PoorMike's. Not everything is related to a calendar year. Build an interface that allows people to easily store time information using a format other than the Julian Calendar. Add features that are geo-specific. Also be able to capture such oddities as "the start of the year", "after the first full moon", "three days before my birthday", etc. Detect ambiguity.
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People have been talking about this on Seattle Tech Startups... a good simple group todo list that integrates into Google Apps (specifically the calendar) could be nice.
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Tie into something like del.icio.us and connect you with relevant(primarily local) local people with similar interests based on commonality or some matching algorithm.
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Rather than listing skills by job posting, why not have a place to list all of a person's skills, even if they are random like translating Greek, playing piano, or being an advanced web developer. Then you could find people with skills by locale, find and match random skills like someone who can compose a song in Greek and can do your website too.
Imagine an iphone interface where you could type in 'greek', 'piano', and 'web developer' and have the map program drop pins of people who match, along with their contact info.
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A service that helps schools that want to deploy a 1-to-1 computing environment (using the OLPC model as an example) carry out a site survey, identify what they would need to plan for, and generate a draft proposal, with timeline and deployment plan. It would invite people to upload various types of information and images, identify key players in their vicinity, (look for other projects in their region - future feature ;). and would then generate a profile for them for others to find, and a page / report that the school can use to request further support for a deployment (from their school and from OLPC, in our case). Other future features, in addition to looking for other projects nearby, would be similar interface/report generation for other 1-to-1 models and direct collaboration with / forming groups with other interested seeders.
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There ought to be a friendfeedy/dogpile river interface which tracked lots of different sites that mention a company name or brand keyword. These exist for some individual sites already but I'm not sure if there is a
aggregator that pulls from multiple apis.
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I think we should spend 6 hours of our time trying to win the Netflix Prize of 1 million dollars. It would be highly lucrative if we do win, and either way, I think it will be a lot of fun.
http://www.netflixprize.com/
We could use EC2 for computation power to test our algorithms.
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Application which, like noonhat, allows you to meet random people for lunch, but proposes an idea to discuss at that lunch. In other words, one could choose people to meet according to interests ( coders, fashionistas, treehuggers etc)
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Ever try to get a bunch of people together for a meeting, event, wine tasting, etc where you have multiple date choices, and some key people who you want to attend? It's a real pain trying to do this through email.
There is a need for a website where you can go, put in a bunch of email addresses, choose the key people, and a few dates, and have the software pick the date with the best match for the chosen criteria.
Or maybe you just want to see how may people accept for various dates.
How many times have people replied to a mailing list to say yes for a meeting, wasting your time reading the replies? One to many for me.
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Taps into Twitter and Facebook updates (maybe for Hashtags, ie. #GiraffeLabs) to show when people are at a given location.
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There's a ton of nice calendar services out there and a ton of organizations with CRAPPY calendars that don't integrate with anything (like gCalendar and Upcoming). Start a company that charges businesses to promote their calendars on the "BIG" calendar sites.
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Have you felt while reading a page or email who this person is or open browser only to cut and paste information to search on them?
Wouldn't it be great to highlight any name on a web page or Office applications and see matching information from Wink, LinkedIn, Wikipedia, Facebook, Google News, Technorati, Yahoo Person Search, Spock, WikiYou, ZoomInfo, IMDB, MySpace etc all consolidated on a page?
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Create a Silverlight based image gallery / slideshow that would allow a simple yet slick viewing experience of photos from a variety of disparate services (Flickr, SmugMug, stored locally, urls to images) as if they were in a single album. Metadata could be cached locally, images would remain hosted on the source service. The viewing experience could be something like coverflow.
Instead of being a stand alone site, this could be a component that anyone can integrate into their site.
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A Photo (and or video) sharing website using Amazon Cloud (Amazon Web Services) - there will be no minimum fee for the users - no contract - it is all 'pay as you go' model, which is different than most of the online photo sharing sites (and this could be the positioning message for this idea). It will also nicely address the use-case where user wants the pictures to be uploaded and available only for a certain duration of time and pay only for that time-period.
The photos will be stored on Amazon S3 - so it will be cheap and no need to worry about scalability issue and then billing will be done directly from Amazon using Amazon DevPay - so again no need to worry about how to track usage, charges etc. Finally deploy on Amazon EC2.
A Photo (and or video) sharing website in Amazon Cloud (Amazon Web Services) - there will be no minimum fee for the users - it is all 'pay as you go' model, which is different than most of the online photo sharing sites (and this could be the positioning message for this idea). It will also nicely address the use-case where user wants the pictures to be uploaded and available only for a certain duration of time and pay only for that time-period.
The photos will be stored on Amazon S3 - so it will be cheap and no need to worry about scalability issue and then billing will be done directly from Amazon using Amazon DevPay - so again no need to worry about how to track usage, charges etc. Finally deploy on Amazon EC2.
So how will it generate money - DevPay is the answer. We can increase the pricing for S3 storage, e.g., if Amazon charges $0.15 per GB-month storage, we can charge $0.20 and Amazon will pay us the difference. Again, the cool part is that Amazon will keep track the usage and billing for the customers.
References:
Amazon Web Services - http://aws.amazon.com
Amazon S3 - http://aws.amazon.com/s3/
Amazon DevPay - http://aws.amazon.com/devpay/
Amazon EC2 - http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/
Now that Amazon EC2 starts supporting Windows, we can develop the application on ASP.Net.
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A time tracking website, that is used to manage multiple clients with multiple projects. The key component is a Mac Dashboard widget that is a light front end. Clients and Projects are created with the web UI, but are selected via drop down lists in the Widget. Also start and stop buttons for the timer. It should also include a text area to describe what was done in that period. Reports will be displayed in the Web UI. people would need to login with a OpenID. as a bonus include 6 minute billing.
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A community of musicians sign up and provide info about themselves and their musical skills and instruments played. Other musicians looking to jam perform a search of who's online or send invites to other members to meet at specific times in an online Jam room.
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A simple way to commit to a specific level of altruism (financial and otherwise) before you make it big. It's honor-driven but also a public record so you can't be a schmuck if you make it big -- it's in writing! Perfect for startup people and college kids! Altruism is proven to increase great outcomes not just for the recipient but also the giver (my company, Limeade has statistical proof of this -- let me know if you want me to send you a private login) -- and what better way to tell your friends and potential dates where your heart is. Maybe simple or maybe a sliding scale -- like if I am making $50k I give 2%, if $100k 5%, if $500k 10%. Or maybe based on total net worth? Ask users whether they pay in time, money, or other ways. Lots of requirements to discuss. Must be in gadget/widget format for massive adoption in phones, social networking sites, etc... Just writing this is the most altruistic (and open-source) thing I've done.
If anyone likes this idea but it doesn't get a shot at 6-hour call me and let's build it! Or, um, you build it :-)
:-)
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I know people have this on individual sites but I haven't seen the app in Facebook or MySpace yet. I want to look for clothes or glasses, then have the community (my online friends) tell me what to buy. For example, I'm looking for glasses now and have my favorites. I'd share them with my Facebook friends and let them provide their input. I'd make the final decision.
Eric
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A website to build a list of people, companies, products that you would not recommend to your linkedin friends.
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A website that lets people post a question, setup a time period for voting on the answers. This way a third party can help settle bets. Listen to car talk on a weekend and you see how many times a couple uses the show to settle a question.
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Build an app that would be able to remove a friend from all your social networks and post up a response on why you removed them. So for instance I want to remove a person from my social network. I select the person and it updates and removes them from all my social accounts (myspace, facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc...)Also posts why you removed them.
Thoughts??
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I frequently find myself in the position of trying to find a service provider and not having any clue a) which ones are out there and b) what their service is like.
Ideally, I would be able to do the following:
Select the type of service (shared vps, managed server, dns backup, mx backup)
Select a desired price point
Select traffic estimate (i.e. grid servers may not be a good choice for low-traffic sites)
Show me a list of providers, ordered by review score. I'm sure this exists, I just haven't been able to find a reliable source.
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Looking to create a mashup on top of google or microsoft maps where you can search for food, beer, coffee and wifi. Simple interface that leads to results showing places with food serving hours.
I recently spent an hour driving from bar to bar after 11pm trying to find a bar with food and wifi.
Maybe a site like this already exists but I could not find one based on food serving hours. As more and more people work with global teams it becomes more useful to know where you can get a bite at 1am with wifi.
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A query service that allows you to submit people who can't use their email correctly. This is tied to a plug in application that runs in outlook or gmail to flash a warning when you are sending an email to a 'sucky' person.
For example if you send someone a BCC and the forward it on to other people who were already in the CC of the original email, you can flag them as someone who sucks at email.
You can also create filters based on peoples 'suckness ratings'.
After 5 suck notifications they get an email explaining how to use email correctly And at a certain point work as an email block list after say 100 'suck' ratings they can't send email to anyone who uses the service.
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Forget blue tooth or wired keyboards for the iphone. What we need is to create a simple case or wrap around keyboard that presses down on the existing keyboard on the iphone screen but acts as a blackberry keyboard.
Basically take apart a black berry or some other smartphone, lay the keys over the iphone keyboard, have the biometric hookup, and we have a keyboard that gives you blackberry feel and speed.
It should be transparent so the keys shine though and is useful in mutliple languages.
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