Interesting that "6. More variants of CRM" hasn't had much attention.
Ask HN: What are the current best solutions for the 30 YC 'ideas'?
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Re: Ask HN: What are the current best solutions for the 30 YC 'ideas'?
#32Fixes to these problems needn't be startups. Part of the fix for problem 1 is the international Pirate Party movement.
Hardly. Part of public awareness around the issues, sure.
Re: Ask HN: What are the current best solutions for the 30 YC 'ideas'?
#33An editable google doc for this: http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0Af5maeCRtjlnZGhndGt3bXZfMm...
Very good -- the HN format is terribly suited to such a project.
Actually, Google Docs is not too suitable for it either: you can add to the list, but where do you leave comments for entries you disagree with, etc etc? Would become a strange hybrid discussion split between HN and the Google Doc...
This is one of those cases where I see real use for Google Wave.
Re: Ask HN: What are the current best solutions for the 30 YC 'ideas'?
#34Fixes to these problems needn't be startups. Part of the fix for problem 1 is the international Pirate Party movement.
Hardly. Part of public awareness around the issues, sure.
It isn't just public awareness, it's about getting the law changed. The Swedish Pirate Party got 7% of the vote last June. If this can be replicated throughout the world (particularly in Europe, where the Pirate movement is strongest), there will be 2 effects:
1. in some countries, PP may hold the balance of power in parliament, and will thus be able to join whichever coalition offers the best concessions to their points of view. This may well be the outcome of the next general election in Sweden.
2. other parties, seeing how many votes PP is getting, and they are potentially losing, will tend to move their policies to what PP endorses. A historical example of this sort of process working is after the 1989 European election in the UK, where the Green Party got 15% of the vote; the main parties immediately started copying their polices, or at least giving lip service to them. When Pirate Parties start doing well in elections, we are likely to see the same effect.
Re: Ask HN: What are the current best solutions for the 30 YC 'ideas'?
#35#3: New news I'm a news hound. And, I started http://Newsley.com to try and find a solution to the new news problem that I had. I picked financial and economic news because it's an interest of mine that will hold my attention. Besides, advertising rates are much better for financial and economic keywords than they are for funny videos or cute cat pictures. My hypothesis, social news sites have done a pretty good job…
i like the style you use on that site - simple, connects with the idea of a newspaper, clean, distinctive.
Re: Ask HN: What are the current best solutions for the 30 YC 'ideas'?
#3617. I think Square ( http://www.squareup.com ) qualifies. 19. Heroku counts 23. Powerset 30. Builditwith.me ( http://www.builditwith.me )
I'm not sure what problem Powerset is trying to solve. It seems to me that they don't bring any extra functionality to searching Wikipedia with Google. Maybe I have misunderstood their project...?
you need to type in a whole sentence and then look at the results above the traditional search results.
for example, for "what did andrew cooke do?" - http://www.powerset.com/explore/go/what-did-andrew-cooke-do%... - the third response is "designed an algorithm" (which is what i was looking for).
it's not wonderful, by any means, but that does illustrate the semantic-ness of what they are doing (imho).
Re: Ask HN: What are the current best solutions for the 30 YC 'ideas'?
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hardly. Part of public awareness around the issues, sure.
It isn't just public awareness, it's about getting the law changed. The Swedish Pirate Party got 7% of the vote last June. If this can be replicated throughout the world (particularly in Europe, where the Pirate movement is strongest), there will be 2 effects: 1. in some countries, PP may hold the balance of power in parliament, and will thus be able to join whichever coalition offers the best concessions to their po…
Sure, except that "green" is something many people are interested in, whereas copyright law is a narrow issue that only artists, distributers and nerds care about.