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I've always wanted to be able to write notes on top of emails I receive. So say I receive an email about a new bug, I could just jot down more details into another layer on top that email in transparent font/colour. I've noticed other people often print out emails and do something like this with a red marker. I use Thunderbird and I've thought about digging around in the source to see if this is possible. It's not so…
An aggregator for social news sites with a recommendation engine to feed you stories you like.
Here's one for a FireFox plugin. The aim is to record articles where you submitted a comment and to be able to track follow-ups. The plugin has to detect HTTP POST. It could ask the user if he wants to save the page or have an automated process that removes logins and other unrelated actions.
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Most UI problems are a lack of interoperability. All solved with emacs and flat text.
>Most UI problems are a lack of interoperability. Most of your UI problems are a lack of interoperability.
Here's one, but if no one does it and it's feasable, some day I might. I'd like to implement a large continual self-report study via email for the public good. Via an email every day or so, data is slowly gathered from participants--all anonymized in a number of ways. The emails would be questions proposed by researchers or lifestyle data to look for correlations with product use, habits, physical traits and disease…
Thoughts? The correct analogy is not a metal detector, but a needle in a haystack. I think you misunderestimate the amount of false leads you get doing this by several orders of magnitude. If your system generates too many false leads, it will be (to borrow an analogy from Bruce Schneier, who you should read every week, and writes about false alarms in the context of airport security) like adding more hay to a haysta…
I had this idea because friends and I sometimes talk on IM about a topic and the chat log turns out to make quite interesting reading.
Socratic Blogging. Two or more (real or fake) people have a conversation about a topic and it's posted as a blog entry. I think it'd make for a really interesting new genre of blogs very different from the traditional essay style. A web-based Ajax chat style writing system and an IM client plugin as well, would make it super convenient and painless to create new posts. Traditional bloggers might occasionally do these…
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They are forced to build a better, more useful, competitive product so that they, their investors, and customers all benefit.
I mean the people who used the suggestion would be upset because it seems that the person suggesting it said he would not pursue it.
We were going to build a web service to make the college application process easier for students, but don't really have the time right now. If you like the idea, check out sites like prstats.com or mychances.net (very poorly implemented, but good ideas IMO). Also, let me know and I'd be happy to share our early research with you.