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Airbnb, but paid with labor. Many travelers are short on cash but would love to trade services for a night's stay. Me, I would be happy to host a guest for free provided they did my dishes or laundry. Many homeowners, especially empty-nesters, have homes with plenty of space that they still have to maintain. This would provide benefits to both parties.
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Interesting idea, but could you elaborate on the practical side of this? Here's my take on this, in the form a ramble: Intellisense works really well for code because there's a finite set of, for instance, methods you can call on a certain object - so I'm assuming you mean something that's more than just autocompletion. I'm not really sure language on its own is powerful enough to handle ideas. When I think of organi…
"Thought" might be a better term than "ideas". The purpose of such a tool is not to brainstorm, but to communicate. We communicate using natural languages. If you check Twitter, you'll see people write down all kind of thoughts and information. But this information is not semantic, and only a human (or NLP) can make sense of what is said. When people communicate, it's either to make a statement about the past ("I ate…
You type in english, and it generates an AST on the fly. This would allow conversations to line up and be searchable by content rather than just text.
If the software isn't continually improved I could see it dumbing down the grammar that the group uses. It could enforce a defacto double-speak.
Another nice side effect, is that you could search by concept. I find this very very difficult with current search tools.
This is an idea that I had recently, but for which unfortunately I have no time. I hope that some of you folks can make it happen.
The idea is that with the recent release of Chrome for Android's "Add to Home Screen" feature, there is now a way to bookmark websites to the home screen of every mobile os. Mobile sites can add a meta tag to hide the browser chrome and look fully native. Combined with fast mobile processors, this means that we can finally have native-like experience only by using HTML.
It may be difficult to build a business around it, and could make more sense if it is crowd-sourced (the database could be hosted as json on a github repo).
I haven't done much research, but I believe that an independent store which collects these apps, makes them discoverable, and instructs people how to install them would be very useful, and will do a great job for promoting the freedom of the web over closed app stores.
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there is a lot of activity in this sector right now, including some VC funded startups, the approach they are taking is to grab instagram #forsale pics then post it on their own storefront site
Really? Do you have any example?
a few others
http://new.soldsie.com/instagram-selling/
https://paytagz.com (Member of http://boost.vc)
Basically a way to organize photos into searchable tags which are context aware and auto-generated. This way, I will not have to browse through tons of photos to find the ones shot at a concert, for example. What if I simply search for "concert" and all my photos shot at some concert are fetched. The key here is to auto-tag the photos as good (or near to) as Google does with their Image search.
Semantic version of Twitter. Every tweet is RDF.
I compiled different ideas over the week. coMarketing: I would like to see a solution that allows smaller companies that target a similar audience to be able to put their "little" marketing dollar together and have a better chance at fighting the big guy. Phone screen on my computer: When I am at my desk, I want to be able to use my phone from my computer. I can use the desktop interface to go through contacts, check…
Let's take 3D printing to the circuit board world. A consumer machine that can be configured to takes as inputs: 1. A set of different electrical part. (Perhaps self-contained in a large box like printer ink is) 2. A circuit board schematic file The machine cuts the board and solders the parts in. And there you have it! Your own computer factory! (For limited definitions of "computer") If this idea ever piques anyone…
Build a company around creating a best in class development environment that they can sell to other tech companies. This would involve everything from repository management (on top of git) to build & compilation tooling to automated testing and probably more than that eventually. Once companies reach a certain scale they inevitably expend some of their resources on building internal development tools. At Foursquare w…