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Re: Idea Week. Post ideas you don't plan on implementing.

#101

Post by catalinist »

aggregating the aggregation sites. Basiclly a site where you can make an account and have the news from digg, reddit, pligg and whatever other sites delivered to this one service. basicly I'm thinking about the user registring on this one site, and then this site registring to all other sites specific users that link back to the main-user. Kinda lika a pyramid ... don't know if this make sense (or if I'm expressing it well in english). This would also be used with social bookmarking sites (apparently 300 of this kind of sites exists - here is the list : http://www.ajaxflakes.com/web-20/social-bookmarking-sites-un...)

And if I'm going there : this site should provide web services that link to user's blogs.

This is my 2 cents.

Re: Idea Week. Post ideas you don't plan on implementing.

#102

Post by brlewis »

iamwil wrote: post #99
leila_c wrote: post #48

I'd love to see someone create a virtual lock-box for emails you're tempted to spend too much time re-reading and analyzing (like those from past/future romantic interests). You'd forward the email to another address, which would somehow remove it from your inbox and return it to you after a standard amount of time (two weeks to a month, say).

I would have never guessed that this is a problem. I have a problem with reading hacker.news and other websites too much, and have resorted to editing my etc/hosts file to route those URLs to localhost you'd want a hosts file for emails? interesting.

The solution isn't to block the distractions. You need to talk yourself up on whatever it is you should be spending time on. If you can't persuade yourself that the other activity is more worthwhile, then maybe it isn't.

Re: Idea Week. Post ideas you don't plan on implementing.

#103

Post by cstejerean »

danw wrote: post #97
cstejerean wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

does this work with YC?

news.YC has the threads feature which does a similar thing

well, if I understand correcty the cocomment app lets you track comments to threads you are following on multiple sites. i was wondering if it can pull in data from YC and so I can check comments across wordpress, blogger, yc, etc.

Re: Idea Week. Post ideas you don't plan on implementing.

#104

Post by kashif »

pg wrote: post #67
h34t wrote: post #63

Non-Profit Tobacco. Find a way to give that majority of smokers, those who don't like what they do (but do it anyway), the ability to purchase high-quality cigarettes whose 'profits' go to cancer research and as-effective-as-possible anti-smoking campaigns.

That actually might work...

I am not so certain. Smoked for almost 11 years before I quit in March of this year.

1. Smokers don't switch brands easily, its more than just choice or taste, bodies get used to a certain cigarette. I wouldn't' just buy your cigarettes because they contribute to a good cause. All cigs are not the same. If I wanted to contribute to cancer I have other ways of doing it.

2. Most smokers actually don't believe that they will get cancer from smoking. 'It can't happen to me' syndrome.

3.The population of smokers is getting younger. An ever larger chunk comes from teenagers and folks in their early 20's who do not want to spend more for cigarettes, additionally, what they smoke is also a function of what their friends smoke.

4. Cigarettes are getting increasingly expensive because of higher government taxes in most nations among other reasons.

5. No tobacco corporation publicly admits that tobacco causes cancer. No one will sell you tobacco to make these cigs,

6. Finally, the assumption that a majority of smokers don't like smoking is wrong. Most smokers enjoy smoking. Ask a smoker about his/her after dinner smoke and that should convince you.

Re: Idea Week. Post ideas you don't plan on implementing.

#105

Post by Tichy »

dpapathanasiou wrote: post #98

Spam attack software: identify the toll-free telephone numbers in spam emails and automatically call multiple times using Jajah (or similar VoIP service). Unlike spam (which costs little to send), the spammers or their clients have to pay for all those telephone calls.

Same problem as usual with that kind of idea: what stops companies from spamming in the name of their competitors?

Re: Idea Week. Post ideas you don't plan on implementing.

#106

Post by ryanspahn »

staunch wrote: post #57

Socratic Blogging. Two or more (real or fake) people have a conversation about a topic and it's posted as a blog entry. I think it'd make for a really interesting new genre of blogs very different from the traditional essay style. A web-based Ajax chat style writing system and an IM client plugin as well, would make it super convenient and painless to create new posts. Traditional bloggers might occasionally do these…

Very cool!

Create an engine that reads and understands the conversation and turns into a regular article or blog post; notating both authors! Also, create a link to the full IMversation.

Call it www.IMversations.com, if available.

Gosh, I would love to get a shot at YC! Hearing ideas like this is inspiring!

If you like my thoughts & are interested in hearing more ... get in touch :)

Re: Idea Week. Post ideas you don't plan on implementing.

#107

Post by ryanspahn »

A Firefox plug-in like FoxMarks, but for your FF plug-ins and not bookmarks. When you download/install a fresh FF copy, instead of installing all your plug-ins, just install the one in which you sign in and boom it starts downloading and installing your favorite plug-ins.

Re: Idea Week. Post ideas you don't plan on implementing.

#108

Post by leila_c »

brlewis wrote: post #102
iamwil wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would have never guessed that this is a problem. I have a problem with reading hacker.news and other websites too much, and have resorted to editing my etc/hosts file to route those URLs to localhost you'd want a hosts file for emails? interesting.

The solution isn't to block the distractions. You need to talk yourself up on whatever it is you should be spending time on. If you can't persuade yourself that the other activity is more worthwhile, then maybe it isn't.

i think the idea is more funny than self-helpy. i know scores of women who'd subscribe, if only to banish ex-boyfriends from their inboxes (temporarily).

Re: Idea Week. Post ideas you don't plan on implementing.

#109

Post by gcheong »

yters wrote: post #18

I still think Web 2.0 is missing some kind of app aggregator. Something that would both improve the findability of applications, and allow them to be plugged together similar to what yahoo pipes does with RSS. However, without some kind of standardization amongst the apps, this is way too complex to implement. And creating a trusted distributed computing system on facebook, where clients would compete to have users g…

I think you're right.

Re: Idea Week. Post ideas you don't plan on implementing.

#110

Post by leila_c »

leila_c wrote: post #48

I'd love to see someone create a virtual lock-box for emails you're tempted to spend too much time re-reading and analyzing (like those from past/future romantic interests). You'd forward the email to another address, which would somehow remove it from your inbox and return it to you after a standard amount of time (two weeks to a month, say).

a tabloid Somebody likes my idea, but for URLs: http://valleywag.com/tech/julia-allison/new-york-nobody-call...

this idea might make women look bad, but i have no problem with that if it also makes some of us rich.

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