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Re: New Startup Ideas Spreadsheet

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Post by JayNeely »

jasonlbaptiste wrote: post #39

im sorry, i love you all, but this list is filled with some really bad stuff. After reading more thoroughly I'm assuming a lot of it is just people messing around Such as: 100% return lottery. pandora for chatroulette. Wordpress.com 20 years more advanced, for video blogging. Public Takeover - Use capitalism to control the ills of capitalism, one share at a time. Use crowdsourcing and social network effects to take o…

"Wordpress.com 20 years more advanced, for video blogging" is one of mine. I'd love to hear critiques of it. I realize the "pitch" is bad, but did you read any of the other sections?; I'm trying to convey that it's not just a hosted platform for video blogging, but that there's some technological innovation involved as well.

Re: New Startup Ideas Spreadsheet

#42

Post by Khroma »

Blasa wrote: post #38
imp wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I saw that item on the list and thought that it resembled the website I recently launched: http://www.crunchcourse.com/ Is that similar to what you were thinking? I'd be interested to get your feedback on it.

That fills the same space as to what I was thinking about, cool! I'll have to try setting a course up. I thought of some form of karma might be needed to avoid people joining a class and spamming the forum. But that is probably a issue for later. More communication methods would be good. IRC server with a web client, and per class chat rooms that saved the chat logs. The major suggestion I have at this stage is to se…

I thought of some additional ideas. What do you think?

- Invitations

- A "materials needed" list for each class

- A public forum for general subject discussion

- A calendar

- Conferencing (with voice, video, images, chat)

- Buy books or supplies if needed

- For learning languages, there could be a service to chat with a fluent speaker

- To make tests, you can use something like Wufoo to make forms for tests

- Background theme for classes

- Progress charts

- Grade checker

- Mobile apps

- OpenID/other logins

- Citation helper

- Look up quotes and verses

- For whiteboard, maybe something with HTML5 canvas

- Group mailing list

Re: New Startup Ideas Spreadsheet

#43

Post by Blasa »

imp wrote: post #31
Blasa wrote: post #20

I put my idea up (about the group learning community), because I'd like it to be made. Even if I'm not the one to make it. It scratches one of my itches.

I saw that item on the list and thought that it resembled the website I recently launched: http://www.crunchcourse.com/ Is that similar to what you were thinking? I'd be interested to get your feedback on it.

Oh and MathML would be nice.

Re: New Startup Ideas Spreadsheet

#44

Post by jasonlbaptiste »

coryl wrote: post #40
jasonlbaptiste wrote: post #39

im sorry, i love you all, but this list is filled with some really bad stuff. After reading more thoroughly I'm assuming a lot of it is just people messing around Such as: 100% return lottery. pandora for chatroulette. Wordpress.com 20 years more advanced, for video blogging. Public Takeover - Use capitalism to control the ills of capitalism, one share at a time. Use crowdsourcing and social network effects to take o…

Don't you know that dog walking is a big business?

oh it actually is. go read the rest of the pitch. it's obviously a spoof.

Re: New Startup Ideas Spreadsheet

#45

Post by jasonlbaptiste »

JayNeely wrote: post #41
jasonlbaptiste wrote: post #39

im sorry, i love you all, but this list is filled with some really bad stuff. After reading more thoroughly I'm assuming a lot of it is just people messing around Such as: 100% return lottery. pandora for chatroulette. Wordpress.com 20 years more advanced, for video blogging. Public Takeover - Use capitalism to control the ills of capitalism, one share at a time. Use crowdsourcing and social network effects to take o…

"Wordpress.com 20 years more advanced, for video blogging" is one of mine. I'd love to hear critiques of it. I realize the "pitch" is bad, but did you read any of the other sections?; I'm trying to convey that it's not just a hosted platform for video blogging, but that there's some technological innovation involved as well.

you could build something very advanced (theme wise) and the back end coding on top of wordpress. If it worked well and I were a videoblogger, id pay for it.

Re: New Startup Ideas Spreadsheet

#46

Post by mixmax »

coryl wrote: post #40
jasonlbaptiste wrote: post #39

im sorry, i love you all, but this list is filled with some really bad stuff. After reading more thoroughly I'm assuming a lot of it is just people messing around Such as: 100% return lottery. pandora for chatroulette. Wordpress.com 20 years more advanced, for video blogging. Public Takeover - Use capitalism to control the ills of capitalism, one share at a time. Use crowdsourcing and social network effects to take o…

Don't you know that dog walking is a big business?

Some years ago I had an office in an incubator, and me and a guy from another company had a competition on who could come up with the most ridiculous yet somewhat believable pitch. He won with this:

Dogwalking is big business - there are more rich people with dogs than you would dare dream of, and they all need to have their dogs walked. On the other end of the leash there are social welfare clients that want more money from the state - and if you have a dog you get a monthly allowance to buy dog-stuff and food. So the ingenious business proposition was to make money by walking rich people's dogs, and renting them out to welfare clients that only need a dog for half an hour to prove that they do indeed have a dog that they can claim dog-welfare money for.

Absolute genius I tell you!.

Re: New Startup Ideas Spreadsheet

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Post by JayNeely »

jasonlbaptiste wrote: post #45
JayNeely wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Wordpress.com 20 years more advanced, for video blogging" is one of mine. I'd love to hear critiques of it. I realize the "pitch" is bad, but did you read any of the other sections?; I'm trying to convey that it's not just a hosted platform for video blogging, but that there's some technological innovation involved as well.

you could build something very advanced (theme wise) and the back end coding on top of wordpress. If it worked well and I were a videoblogger, id pay for it.

That's not a bad WordPress theme idea. But that's not at all what I'm suggesting, because...

That doesn't improve the video player interface at all.

That doesn't make metadata for videos any better.

That doesn't provide any improvements in the ability to remix video.

That doesn't offer any advantages for having multiple video bloggers on the same platform.

That doesn't add any interactivity to video.

I feel like I'm saying, "There's a ton of room for innovation and additions to the paradigm of web-based video viewing", and you're saying: "sooo... a better theme, then?"

Re: New Startup Ideas Spreadsheet

#49

Post by tocomment »

jasonlbaptiste wrote: post #39

im sorry, i love you all, but this list is filled with some really bad stuff. After reading more thoroughly I'm assuming a lot of it is just people messing around Such as: 100% return lottery. pandora for chatroulette. Wordpress.com 20 years more advanced, for video blogging. Public Takeover - Use capitalism to control the ills of capitalism, one share at a time. Use crowdsourcing and social network effects to take o…

Ive always wanted to try that public takeover idea. It actually sounds plausible right?

Re: New Startup Ideas Spreadsheet

#50

Post by jasonlbaptiste »

tocomment wrote: post #49
jasonlbaptiste wrote: post #39

im sorry, i love you all, but this list is filled with some really bad stuff. After reading more thoroughly I'm assuming a lot of it is just people messing around Such as: 100% return lottery. pandora for chatroulette. Wordpress.com 20 years more advanced, for video blogging. Public Takeover - Use capitalism to control the ills of capitalism, one share at a time. Use crowdsourcing and social network effects to take o…

Ive always wanted to try that public takeover idea. It actually sounds plausible right?

not at all.
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