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Re: Share your ideas

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Post by GavinB »

A version of social discussion site optimized for continuous discussion around a topic. One of my biggest complaints about HN is that it is very reactionary and every discussion ends in 24-48 hours. One of the reasons we have less "Hacker News" is that we've exhausted superficial discussions of a lot of topics and don't have a way to go more in-depth.

I have some ideas about how to implement this but I don't want to spam the comments with a long essay.

Re: Share your ideas

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Post by GavinB »

A microfinance or charity site (ala Kiva.com) that lets you skype with the recipient of the charity at the moment of giving.

Translation and synchronicity would be major obstacles to this.

Re: Share your ideas

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Post by snitko »

chaosprophet wrote: post #29
snitko wrote: post #9

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 ho…

Might you be looking for the Crunchpad [ http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/03/crunchpad-the-launch-pr... ]???

Close. But I bet the price for that is higher and it uses more energy. I would like the device to have a screen exactly like ebook readers.

They also say CrunchPad uses browser as a platform, which makes it a bit inconvenient to read pdf-s and do some other things. Not talking about writing device-specific applications.

Re: Share your ideas

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Post by doosra »

evancaine wrote: post #5

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

The big problem I see in the implementation of this idea: How does one forum handle the mass of users? I'm not talking about technical issues, more of the user experience. How can all users engage in the discussion without being overwhelmed?

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Post by mattmanser »

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…

How do you do the ping without an email?

Re: Share your ideas

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Post by jimmybot »

GavinB wrote: post #31

A version of social discussion site optimized for continuous discussion around a topic. One of my biggest complaints about HN is that it is very reactionary and every discussion ends in 24-48 hours. One of the reasons we have less "Hacker News" is that we've exhausted superficial discussions of a lot of topics and don't have a way to go more in-depth. I have some ideas about how to implement this but I don't want to…

I totally agree; it's a problem I've thought about as well, and it's not just HN either. People scan news headlines (whether on news media outlets or on news aggregators) always looking for something shocking or moving or hilarious or despicable. But after the initial reaction, often it fizzes out and there's no follow up. I would say though comments fairly quickly, the discussion can and does continue at times through a second or third link posted that gets voted up. But yeah, not enough times, and it's not even obvious often what it was posted in response to.

Well, I'd be interested in looking at that long essay if you end up posting it somewhere.

Re: Share your ideas

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Post by bufordtwain »

A portable camera/audio system transmits what the wearer is seeing and hearing to an online audience in real-time. The wearer would be a "remote virtual tourist" and would respond to directions from the online viewers and would walk around allowing the online viewers to travel to places virtually.

Re: Share your ideas

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Post by bufordtwain »

A realistic yet inexpensive robot hand that can curl its fingers in response to a remote wearer (wearing a glove). Would enable physical handshakes over the internet. And probably other things as well, people being as creative as they are...
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