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a social network for couples. my married friends complain that they feel like hermits, because it's hard to meet other couples to hang out with. you'd have a shared profile, which is matched with other local couples with similar tastes in movies, music, food, whatever.
I'm a hermit, and I never feel married. There's something fundamentally unfair about that. :)
wow. Glad to know most of the ideas suck. why is everyone working on a "social network" get some original ideas.
I have some ideas on my blog: http://mindrosity.blogspot.com/ See for example this discussion on using lifecasting to encourage good behavior in a world where few people are genuinely religious (you could also combine this method with a traditional religion): http://mindrosity.blogspot.com/2007/07/justintv-vs-god_07.ht... http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board...
"in a world where few people are genuinely religious" I would argue the vast majority of the world is genuinely religious.
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prson is like my friend's idea -- an online marketplace for the contract killing industry. connect hits and hitmen. =P
an illicit social network / market could be huge. host it in Sweden / Amsterdam / offshore (or wherever it's legal). not worth the hassle from the feds though =)
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Amazon: www.bol.com EBay: www.marktplaats.nl Facebook: www.hyves.nl
We don't have a craigslist competitor, and craigslist covers Amsterdam, but only in English .
A social music site / including music client and music store for classical music. Both last.fm and iTunes suck for classical music, which has a completely different set of concepts from pop music. Composers, conductors, orchestras, choirs, movements, etc. It's a smaller market, and the people are less technically inclined, but they're richer and less likely to pirate music.
How is Pandora for classical music?
You read that right: I know for a fact that Pandora gets its music by ripping CDs. No, really. I've been there and seen it happen. Crazy. You'd assume the record companies would send over the digitized files -- no such luck. They have one person dedicated to ripping CDs, full-time.
Anyway, last I knew, Pandora was trying to work out a deal with some guy who owned thousands of classical CDs. So as long as the company can manage to stay in business, Classical is probably coming.
These have been floating about in my head for a while. Mostly social web sites but with a twist: mmmbop: A Hanson based social networking site. Haven't quite worked out how this would work. pandr: A social networking site for bears. prson: A social networking site for like-minded people to organise crimes. Feel free to use them yourself.
Simple idea, and it's worth $6 billion! W000t! I win.
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an illicit social network / market could be huge. host it in Sweden / Amsterdam / offshore (or wherever it's legal). not worth the hassle from the feds though =)
definitely. another friend suggested a facebook app that helps you find drugs. i have some sketchy friends.
Read the last bullet point...
wow. Glad to know most of the ideas suck. why is everyone working on a "social network" get some original ideas.
A social network is just a platform for an idea, their is still room for original social networks.
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Agreed, an easier to use operating system would be great for most power-users too. I'd start by eliminating the desktop and completely abstracting away the file system, instead letting you browse all of your media files at once, all of your documents, etc. I'd do it with a dynamic start page that would let you accomplish everything from within Ubuntu/Firefox in kiosk mode. The design's the hard part, but I have the b…
It's called OSX. What could be better than a powerful unix machine with a beautiful and intuitive GUI? And also "just works" out of the box.