Share your ideas

#1

Post by evancaine » Sat, Aug 22, 2009, 2:24 PM UTC

I've just been through my ideas file and realised there are several that have been in there for a while. I doubt I'll implement them but I'd be interested in others' opinions. Here are a few in no particular order.

anyone else care to share?

ev

Re: Share your ideas

#2

Post by evancaine » Sat, Aug 22, 2009, 2:24 PM UTC

- a "proof of posting" service for email. You send emails via the service which keeps hold of a copy for x years, accessible by the sender or recipient. Useful for mailing assignments and other important documents

Re: Share your ideas

#3

Post by evancaine » Sat, Aug 22, 2009, 2:24 PM UTC

- an online log/journal for numeric information. You IM, tweet or email the info to the service where it gets logged for later review and analysis. Useful for keeping track of calories, exercise, mileage e.t.c

Re: Share your ideas

#4

Post by evancaine » Sat, Aug 22, 2009, 2:25 PM UTC

- an online noticeboard. When I was at uni, notices relevant to my group of students were either emailed out to everyone or uploaded as a word document to a shared drive. The former flooded my inbox with irrelevant notices, the latter was a pain to have to keep checking. Instead, I can imagine an online noticeboard with tags/directories and expiration dates set by the authors. Users would get a ping when a new notice went up for the tags/directories they had subscribed to.

Re: Share your ideas

#5

Post by evancaine » Sat, Aug 22, 2009, 2:25 PM UTC

- chat rooms based on TV channels. Users can chat live via IM/sms/tweet about the show currently being viewed.

Re: Share your ideas

#6

Post by evancaine » Sat, Aug 22, 2009, 2:25 PM UTC

- a site making it easy for people to share their photo essays. There are plenty of photo sharing sites and plenty of photo essay sites from the big boys but I've yet to find a site that makes it easy for people to share their photo essays.

Re: Share your ideas

#7

Post by sengan » Sat, Aug 22, 2009, 3:00 PM UTC

evancaine wrote: post #2

- a "proof of posting" service for email. You send emails via the service which keeps hold of a copy for x years, accessible by the sender or recipient. Useful for mailing assignments and other important documents

Add to that a proof of receipt mechanism using a webbug.

(Edit: a webbug is a small image with a unique identifier that is downloaded by the client when the document is shown, assuming that image loading is enabled)

Re: Share your ideas

#8

Post by unalone » Sat, Aug 22, 2009, 3:01 PM UTC

evancaine wrote: post #4

- an online noticeboard. When I was at uni, notices relevant to my group of students were either emailed out to everyone or uploaded as a word document to a shared drive. The former flooded my inbox with irrelevant notices, the latter was a pain to have to keep checking. Instead, I can imagine an online noticeboard with tags/directories and expiration dates set by the authors. Users would get a ping when a new notice…

My university uses a Facebook Page for this.

Re: Share your ideas

#9

Post by snitko » Sat, Aug 22, 2009, 3:05 PM UTC

Okay, there's been enough threads about sharing ideas on HN, but let me post the one I thought about tonight.

I was thinking about eBook readers. About how convenient they could be for reading not only books, but blogs, rss feeds, mail. How nice would it be if they could also work as gps navigators, if they could play some video and post to twitter. Now I know some of these devices already have these features, but how about having a platform (like iPhone) and an application store for it? Wouldn't it be great to open these devices for developers? Because, to think about it, I spend about 1-1,5 reading rss headers and blogs a day and it's really not that fun to sit in front of my desktop or notebook for that. I'd like something more mobile, but not as small as a cellphone. And, I assume, this could be one of the trends of the industry: we don't need to have these large shiny screens anymore for something as trivial as reading.

Re: Share your ideas

#10

Post by pwmanagerdied » Sat, Aug 22, 2009, 3:05 PM UTC

evancaine wrote: post #5

- chat rooms based on TV channels. Users can chat live via IM/sms/tweet about the show currently being viewed.

Though I don't watch TV so this isn't directly applicable to me, after seeing it written out I'm amazed that this isn't already common. It's a really good, sensible idea.