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Re: Post a possibly good app idea that you have no intention of doing yourself.

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Post by derefr » Fri, Jan 09, 2009, 5:48 AM UTC

Timothee wrote: post #26

Something that produces iPhone code out of Flex/Flash code and vice-versa? That sounds impossible (I don't know either one) but if it were, it could be cash cow, no?

There's a library called CoreAnimation that's similar in some ways to Flash, supporting keyframes and tweening and such. The iPhone also has (an unofficial) port of Rhino, to run the needed ActionScript. (Compiling that to native code would be a whole 'nother matter.)

Re: Post a possibly good app idea that you have no intention of doing yourself.

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Post by tocomment » Fri, Jan 09, 2009, 5:49 AM UTC

tptacek wrote: post #5

Something that takes blog posts from a related cluster of blogs and presents them as a threaded newsgroup.

Sounds interesting, could you expand on that?

Re: Post a possibly good app idea that you have no intention of doing yourself.

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Post by tocomment » Fri, Jan 09, 2009, 5:51 AM UTC

symptic wrote: post #23

An app that tracks your forum activity and displays all your private messages, thread subscriptions, etc. all in one app.

A big problem I have is I want to post a single question to a forum and be on my way. I hate having to sign up. Same deal but worse with mailing lists. What if your app had login accounts to the top say 10,000 forums so people could pop in and post questions some how?

Re: Post a possibly good app idea that you have no intention of doing yourself.

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Post by tocomment » Fri, Jan 09, 2009, 5:53 AM UTC

Room service robot for hotels. It could basically be a motorized cart. It would be easy for it to get around in big hotels with elevators.

Re: Post a possibly good app idea that you have no intention of doing yourself.

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Post by tocomment » Fri, Jan 09, 2009, 5:53 AM UTC

Video games for dogs?

Re: Post a possibly good app idea that you have no intention of doing yourself.

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Post by tocomment » Fri, Jan 09, 2009, 5:55 AM UTC

Sell sunscreen in little packets (like ketchup packets) that can fit in your wallet. That way you'll never forget sunscreen. Should I patent* this?

* I hate patents.

Re: Post a possibly good app idea that you have no intention of doing yourself.

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Post by tocomment » Fri, Jan 09, 2009, 5:57 AM UTC

Scan in ISBN of a book, have it posted for sale on Amazon and craigslist.

Re: Post a possibly good app idea that you have no intention of doing yourself.

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Post by tocomment » Fri, Jan 09, 2009, 5:58 AM UTC

FF extension - Search within a textbox.

(I hope I'm not posting too many ideas)

Re: Post a possibly good app idea that you have no intention of doing yourself.

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Post by ksvs » Fri, Jan 09, 2009, 5:59 AM UTC

tocomment wrote: post #36

Sell sunscreen in little packets (like ketchup packets) that can fit in your wallet. That way you'll never forget sunscreen. Should I patent* this? * I hate patents.

http://www.google.com/products?q=sunscreen+packets&oe=ut...

Re: Post a possibly good app idea that you have no intention of doing yourself.

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Post by signa11 » Fri, Jan 09, 2009, 6:10 AM UTC

bd wrote: post #15

rms wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A full-on reputational economy.

Email prioritizing based on karma? High karma could move your mail towards top of the pile for people that don't know you (VIP). Or posts/mails could be filtered based on karma thresholds.

gnus email/news-reader already provides, such a fature via scoring. You can score somebody up/down. At a configured threshold, you dont get to see the posts/articles from such folks anymore. love to have something like this in gmail.

[edit]: the same can be done for articles/persons etc etc. for more info http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual//html_node/gnus/Sum....