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I saw a link here a while ago about encoding redundant copies of data with less duplication than you'd think...
A cradle that updates the baby's facebook page based on decibels, activity, dampness.
1. Upload a ton of music to serve as seed data
2. Run a beat rate algorithm
3. Mix the vocals from one song with the rest from the other.
4. Present clips of two such mixes to users, who pick the better one.
5. Repeat until you have a best selling album of remixes.
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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.
A device that twitpics from my dog's collar every X minutes. I'd like to take a glance at what my dog's day is filled with. He seems very busy. This may be more fun with a cat though. Especially one that goes outside (though you'd need an EVDO connection, probably).
Custom video games (for non geeks). I doctored up a basic shooter game for my girlfriends birthday, replacing the backgrounds + all the characters with relevant images from her life. It makes a basic shooter game much more interesting when someone you know is attacking!
Pandora/last.fm for Articles/News/RSS. Stations, skipping, shared traits, etc. More topic centered than FriendFeed.
I've thought of this too, but I can't get around my "moral" (not really, but that's the best description) qualms about this. We already self-select news to reinforce our bias. This idea would just reinforce the bias. Still I'm thinking about doing it. With the caveat that I would occasionally put in a "opposite opinion" article or piece of news.
2. An aggregator of free lectures (video/audio/text) on the internet
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he probably wants news.google.com but in a format like mail.google.com's threads. kind of like techmeme, i imagine.
I want blogs to look like Usenet, so that best affordance for a response is another blog post, not a comment. Comments are evil. There's enough structure in blogs (blogrolls, tags, date, author, backlinks) --- especially if you mine comments --- to do take a stab at this.
Would there be any way to make that discussion-like structure accept input from anonymous, infrequent, or lazy users? Setting up a blog just to reply might leave out some decent responses.
So, many cities have bus systems and those bus systems now-a-days are usually GPS equipped for several reasons (notably that a central office can monitor the system and that the busses can announce ADA-compliant stop messages based on location without the driver being involved). I'd love to have something on my phone that would tell me where the next bus was on a cool Google Map (or other) and an estimated time to ar…
A live public transport map for Helsinki, Finland: http://transport.wspgroup.fi/hklkartta/ It's a trial, there are most (all?) trams and a few buses.
In Tampere on major stops we have information about when the next bus is coming in, some based on GPS and some on schedules, this distinction is indicated on the board.