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i am often interested to find out when kindle version is available. amazon should implement this.
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#12Just for developers: Something that allowed you to change the IP your request resolves to with a modified URL instead of editing the hosts file, like this: 127.0.0.1::http://mysite.com/
Benefits: Not as much work, not as permanent, you can use multiple at once, you can easily see where you are connecting.
I think this is something web developers would pay a few bucks for. I know I would.
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#13A programmer social network. I find myself with two distinct sets of friends on Facebook: my tech friends and my normal friends. With my tech friends, I just want to post neat snippets of code as statuses and share github gists on walls and whatnot. So I'd like basically github with more social elements thrown in. Imagine seeing a cool repo, then being able to friend the owner, and open a chat box to have a quick cha…
This sounds like something, that if it started to gain traction, could be replicated by Github almost instantly.
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#14A programmer social network. I find myself with two distinct sets of friends on Facebook: my tech friends and my normal friends. With my tech friends, I just want to post neat snippets of code as statuses and share github gists on walls and whatnot. So I'd like basically github with more social elements thrown in. Imagine seeing a cool repo, then being able to friend the owner, and open a chat box to have a quick cha…
https://geekli.st is trying to be that.
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#15A Dribbble for video creators/animators.
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#16Popcorn Time for quality children's programming - Bill Nye, Mr. Rogers, Sesame Street, Avatar. Shows that are entertaining AND educational, none of that advertising filled, sassy attitude, Disney Channel crap.
edit: Seems like there is some interest in this. If anyone wants to discuss this more, email my username at me.com
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#17A programmer social network. I find myself with two distinct sets of friends on Facebook: my tech friends and my normal friends. With my tech friends, I just want to post neat snippets of code as statuses and share github gists on walls and whatnot. So I'd like basically github with more social elements thrown in. Imagine seeing a cool repo, then being able to friend the owner, and open a chat box to have a quick cha…
This could be solved by something like Google Plus, if circles could be defined by topics that people subscribe to rather than by people you want to send a message to.
e.g.: I want to know what Jim thinks about coding, but not politics
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#18examine.com meets google scholar
Place for all scientific studies to be elucidated with plain english explanations, analysis, information on shortcomings, links to related studies, open questions, links to further information. Would be community created content, but needs some sort of community voting/moderation system to surface the best content and empower the most knowledgable/trusted contributors.
Ideally this would be where you go when you see sensationalist headlines in popular science magazines -- here you can find out what the study actually means.
Anything like this out there?
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#19stop-the-data-orgy.com: A service that makes it easy (2 clicks) to migrate my email storage from gmail/googleapps to to s3/dropbox.
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#20Turn a crowd & their devices into a huge stereo system!