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Re: Share your ideas

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Post by jacquesm »

evancaine wrote: post #5

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

hehe, funny! I thought of that exact same thing years ago, I even registered 'ontvnow.com' for it...

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Post by petercooper »

- Twitter digest. A Web tool that makes it easy for me to select a bunch of tweets (such as those in response to a question I raised, or just some I find on a search) and then have them repackaged into images or nice HTML I can put on my blog. Sorta like http://twictur.es but on speed.

- Better niche content aggregator. Like a "Planet" site but not pulling everything from the sources.. I don't wanna see non-Ruby related stuff on PlanetRubyonRails, for example.

- A site that lets you put in a URL and then a day/hour/whatever later e-mails you a link to a ZIP archive of that site for you to download for safe keeping. (I think I saw something like this a few days ago, but it's been on my list a while.)

- A blog like LifeHacker but just for coders/developers.

- A blog called something like "Lifeform A Day" that has a basic post about a different type of life/animal each day.

- A Web app dedicated to helping you make headlines or titles for blog posts, pages, etc. Has a giant swipe file of headlines from throughout the ages and will switch in and out terms of your selection automatically and let you scroll through until you find something that works for you.

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Post by petercooper »

pwmanagerdied wrote: post #10
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.

It sorta happens with certain shows already, just on Twitter.

For example, in the UK there's a business show called Dragons' Den where people pitch for money for their crazy business ideas. Quite a large number of people tweet about the show while it's on and almost everything that happens. Not quite "chat" though.

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Post by cousin_it »

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

You mean, CC a trusted third party?

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Post by snitko »

petercooper wrote: post #12

- Twitter digest. A Web tool that makes it easy for me to select a bunch of tweets (such as those in response to a question I raised, or just some I find on a search) and then have them repackaged into images or nice HTML I can put on my blog. Sorta like http://twictur.es but on speed. - Better niche content aggregator. Like a "Planet" site but not pulling everything from the sources.. I don't wanna see non-Ruby rela…

The last one: isn't that google?

Re: Share your ideas

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Post by petercooper »

snitko wrote: post #16
petercooper wrote: post #12

- Twitter digest. A Web tool that makes it easy for me to select a bunch of tweets (such as those in response to a question I raised, or just some I find on a search) and then have them repackaged into images or nice HTML I can put on my blog. Sorta like http://twictur.es but on speed. - Better niche content aggregator. Like a "Planet" site but not pulling everything from the sources.. I don't wanna see non-Ruby rela…

The last one: isn't that google?

You can find swipe files with Google, though there's nothing really dedicated to the task, and it'd be useful to have it switch nouns and verbs for you to get a better immediate view when scanning ;-)

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Post by mikehorn »

evancaine wrote: post #5

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

Yup. I thought about this about a year back as well. Some networks have experimented with micro-sites and social media plugins with this type of functionality, but I'm not aware of anything that has really caught on yet.

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Post by vijayr »

something to reduce the waiting time while making customer service calls. may be an iphone app. I specify the service (PSEG), time I would be available (4 pm to 9pm), expiry date (3 days). It would call the damn service on my behalf, and connect me once a human is on the other side, without disrupting any of the other phone tasks. no clue how it is technically possible, or if something like this already exists.
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