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I'm a hacker. That's just how I roll. Last night I built a "digg/reddit for pictures" type of site. No sweat. But now I need someone to maintain/market/add content / etc. It's a huge pain, and I'd much rather stick to coding.
What would be nice:
Some kind of site/forum/network/etc that connects hacktrepreneurs with talented and/or cheap marketing people. (sometimes you get what you pay for; sometimes the work is just not that hard)
-public and uploadable data warehouse, a la Many Eyes and Swivel, but with better graphic capability, something along the lines of trendalyzer. Design it in a way that rewards contributors with points to build resident 'data experts' and to enable referencing and storing of different people's analysis.
-web-based statistical software like SAS. allow sharing of programs through repository as well as collaborative editing.
These have been floating about in my head for a while. Mostly social web sites but with a twist: mmmbop: A Hanson based social networking site. Haven't quite worked out how this would work. pandr: A social networking site for bears. prson: A social networking site for like-minded people to organise crimes. Feel free to use them yourself.
Or politicians. They can get their campaign manager to help them use the Internet.
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shoutfit
Shoutfit, based on its site being down, seems to have possibly failed to heed PG's "don't die" message." I like the name shoutfit, though... Catchy.
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TVRss + Miro (formerly democracy) or utorrent, tutorial here http://lifehacker.com/software/bittorrent/hack-attack-get-yo... . You might also want to check out TV-links.co.uk if you prefer convenience over quality. As for a legal option, no idea, joost?
Yes but the UIs are still horrible. Someone needs to make something so easy a retarted monkey could use the thing and probably not even realize "torrents" were powering the thing.
Torrents are a non-starter for regular users. Download a .torrent file from one of many tracker sites and open it with the client on your computer is simply too many steps and it's too different from the experience on limewire etc.
These have been floating about in my head for a while. Mostly social web sites but with a twist: mmmbop: A Hanson based social networking site. Haven't quite worked out how this would work. pandr: A social networking site for bears. prson: A social networking site for like-minded people to organise crimes. Feel free to use them yourself.
Generic combiner of web 2.0 apps. Not the same as a personalized homepage, e.g. google's homepage. The system would work with any web 2.0 app that provided an API, and would either give users an easy plug and play method of combining the apps to create something new, with easy app discovery; or use AI to resolve general goals. Basically, SOA on a global scale.
Yahoo Pipes?
Hijack that google image labelling game idea and apply it to something like WoW. Basically, make an open platform that encodes computer AI hard problems humans can solve easily into a MMOPRG format.
Interesting, but do you have any examples of something that would be useful and fun?
No. I just like ideas. I have my own ideas, I just think it would be cool to get a list of ideas that people have but know they won't be able to work on. To prove this I'll start by listing some of my own. PG says one point of this site is to make you look like a desirable candidate for a start up so if you can list some good ideas or critique others it makes you look good. Ideas alone have very little intrinsic valu…
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