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A bookmarking service, that not only saves any "interesting" links that you visit but also saves the data in that link for future search. The service should let you specify topics that you are interested in and will analyze every page you visit (with the exception of blacklisted pages) and put it into the appropriate bucket (topic), for future reference. It should also index the PDFs and word documents that are read…
My girlfriend suggests a menstrual calendar app that enables men to predict women's moods, especially the days they're most amenable to amorous solicitation, and generally because it's good for men to know their partners' cycles. A woman might enter the data herself and share it with selected parties, or men could try to maintain their own records on behalf of women who aren't motivated to do it. There is also a mone…
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Why? Isn't it easier and cheaper to run a VM?
Not easier. You have to wait for the OS to load, login, find the app you want in your menu bar, etc. I think Wine just opens the app in you current desktop environment and it's presumably faster since it doesn't need to emulate the CPU.
A public protocol and a reference implementation of a social network. The problem is stabilized, it's time to do to social networks what SMTP did to email. Open it up to be fully decentralized, where people can host their social hub or use a hosting service, of which there would spring up a multitude. Social networking is nowadays as central to the internet as email, and it is the first such, heavily used, applicatio…
Isn't that what diaspora is? https://diasporafoundation.org/
I believe integrating social networking into email might be the most promising approach. I've always thought a "ShareBox" icon below my Inbox icon would allow social networking to decentralize in a way that would appeal to end users.
Email service for small business: something companies can use in combination with Box.com / Dropbox.com or other cloud storage instead of Google Apps. This is not really idea but more of our need: we started using more Box (and Dropbox) instead of Google Drive but we are stuck with email provided via Google Apps. There is no other service on the market as Google Apps email for small business. (I tried FastMail, Atmai…
Why not?
A media browser for leveraging (browsing, and surfing) multi-terrabyte home media servers: Problem: I've got 2TB of videos, music, and images on my hard drives, and I've found my available tools to be too low-leverage on managing this anymore. Context: about 2 years ago, I've stopped the directory structure madness, and embraced search as first-order link for media files. As a byproduct of this, I notice I don't have…
edit: Also, I'm not sure how to make it a viable business.
A paying Wine (winehq.org) that would work with demanding multimedia programs such as Adobe LightRoom or Sony Vegas. I would pay something like $100/year for such software that would keep up with every new version of its supported programs.
Take a look at CrossOver: http://www.codeweavers.com/
- easily install dot files on a new system
- keep track of files in git
- possible to specify different configurations (OS X, Linux, etc.)
- possible to exclude sensible dot files (i.e. .ssh/id_rsa)
- easy to update files and keep them in sync
- the tool should not be mixed with individual dot files repositories so that it's easy to upgrade to a newer version
- eventually: a dot file repository where people can share / show off their configurations
There are a few tools available on Github but none which have all the above features (AFAIK).
Chrono: chronological inventions and academic breakthroughs of mankind as a dependency graph. This is a lingering idea that has been coming back to me a couple times a year over the last decade or so.
What if there's a kind of semantic wikipedia that is built upon a dependency graph of inventions and academic breakthroughs. What led to the invention of the internet, to nano-tubes, etc? How cool would it be from an education standpoint to be able to jump back in time and see invention upon invention replayed (with backgrounds on how these breakthroughs came to be) up to today. Check out what led to invention X (the galaxy S you're reading this on), played back . Or reversely, lookup which inventions were build (transitively) upon the discovery of Y.
Socio-economic backgrounds, anecdotes, etc. what led to invention X, and how X was important for Y, etc. An interactive "Short history of nearly everything"