An encyclopedia of odors. Like the perfume scent strips in magazines, but for everything.
Does there currently exist a system of scent catogarization?
Maybe this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragrance_wheel
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#132"Pixel Bar" or a brick and mortar photo/print studio for a new generation. Working in the photo industry, things have changed so fast but I still think there's value in physical, printed products. I haven't worked out the perfect setup but something like: - a small retail location in a high-traffic, high tourism area (think union square in SF or 3rd St in Santa Monica) - "print stations" where people can drop in, con…
I must be missing something—my sister does this routinely with Walgreens. She collects the digital photos she wants to print to a USB stick and just goes to her local Walgreens in her relatively small city. Done.
Photo booths still very much exist and have been really popular at weddings recently
If people want a Genius Bar for a "professional portrait" they actually have someone take a professional portrait.
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#133I've been thinking about the problem of making make people organize their public and semi-public data better. Groups (such as email groups and Facebook groups) and communities need a way to organize and share their data freely, but in a structured way. Also people who have data, or start building some kind of data, in text format, or tabular data, but don't know of any other mean, so they build a blog and start posti…
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#134I've been thinking about the problem of making make people organize their public and semi-public data better. Groups (such as email groups and Facebook groups) and communities need a way to organize and share their data freely, but in a structured way. Also people who have data, or start building some kind of data, in text format, or tabular data, but don't know of any other mean, so they build a blog and start posti…
Immediate sharing of raw data (with the world, or restricted to one’s peers), instead of going through the tedious process of information packaging through text, words, written description or synoptical graphics — that’s the future of our open Web. When anyone can create and update the underlying raw data, there can exist infinite summarizing views, syntheses, charts, text, all drawing their own conclusions. Pushing…
We’ve working on an approach to tackle this problem. We saw that the burden of having to create a data structure - along with the need to attach it to a visualization - makes people post what they can as hacky html lists, if they get so far.
We wanted to show people that they were in fact able to create structured contents, even if it was in a limited way, and we choose the analogy of file and folders since most people know how to organize them. But structuring and gathering data is half of the problem, you need to translate that data into friendly views and same sort of browsing experience, so we developed same conventions to turn the structure into a small website/embed.
We thought of developing an open way to store and share this data, and let people copy, follow, contribute to these chunks of content. Build a friendly web dashboard that exposes every item with simple views, and which let other developers consume them in any other ways they want.
The problem is that we don’t really know who wants this. We thought that it would be appealing for web agencies as a way to quickly add structured contents to websites, but we were wrong. Some people suggested us to develop a full CMS, but we wanted to work on the problem of sharing and opening up a library of contents, not to be an alternative to Wordpress. We honestly don’t know what to do next. If you want to talk further about it, my email if fsainz/gmail.
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#135Meta: it would be nice to get an exception to the flame war detection for these threads. It seems like they're getting penalized.
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#136Earlier quoted context omitted.
The problem with this is most likely insurance and safety related. :(
What's the difference between that and opening up a new Macbook and changing the battery, voiding your warranty?
A Macbook can not crash into another car and kill all the passengers.
I'm not sure that's an actual problem though. The UK had "haynes manuals" for many years. The actual problem is that specialist tools are needed more often now.
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#137"Pixel Bar" or a brick and mortar photo/print studio for a new generation. Working in the photo industry, things have changed so fast but I still think there's value in physical, printed products. I haven't worked out the perfect setup but something like: - a small retail location in a high-traffic, high tourism area (think union square in SF or 3rd St in Santa Monica) - "print stations" where people can drop in, con…
I must be missing something—my sister does this routinely with Walgreens. She collects the digital photos she wants to print to a USB stick and just goes to her local Walgreens in her relatively small city. Done. Photo booths still very much exist and have been really popular at weddings recently If people want a Genius Bar for a "professional portrait" they actually have someone take a professional portrait.
You might not be missing anything (hey, it's "Idea Sunday" not "Great Idea Sunday"). I still haven't working out the numbers enough to know if it could work.
To your points, however, any time I try to print at a wal-mart or drug store kiosk there's a 50% chance the kiosk is broken or busy.
I'm very familiar with the wedding and portrait industry as well as photo booths. I think the booths in a retail location could work well–and could be a way to drive app downloads (want the file? download the app).
> If people want a Genius Bar for a "professional portrait" they actually have someone take a professional portrait.
Right, this would be a place to do that. It would be a combination of low-cost with contemporary styling/posing.
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#138A Yelp like review app for colleges. Currently the best way for prospective students to get the best idea of what a school will be like before attending, is to head to the schools cafeteria or quad and ask a student how they like the school. The current students and/or alumni are most honest about their experience with the school. Make an application that requires some proof of enrollment to rate and review a given c…
Ah, glassdoor.com for higher education. Cool idea. Would make sense to break it down by department/faculty, too.
Ah, glassdoor.com for higher education. Cool idea. Would make sense to break it down by department/faculty, too.
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#139Html Tables as a service.
For the average Joe, making html tables is such a task. about a zillion times. Yes I realize that anyone putting a table into html should really be using a database, but again for the average joe, that is too much brain damage, and still too hard.
The idea is: Copy excel headers and data into the service, and out pops embeddable html/javascript/whatever code that the person can embed directly on their site. From the user perspective, they can have one place to keep their table data and have an easy way to embed a table into html from excel.
Alternatives: Google Docs embed, zoho creator embed, etc - but these do not integrate directly into the site (ie they cannot inherit css styles from the site) Tableizer - does the conversion of excel cells to html, but does not store the table and data for the user to call at a later date (ie data is static and used once)
It is really similar to the http://myjson.com/ idea, except its for people who don't know what json is.
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#140A monitor that outputs wavelengths of light that are therapeutic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_therapy
Been thinking about this since Asus came out with a laptop with an air ionizer in 2008.