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Re: Products I Wish Existed

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Post by worldsayshi »

ckosidows wrote: post #248

#2. I've had an idea I've mulled around for a couple of years now about a new social network. One which limits your 'feed' to 25 friends and that is it. 25 might even be too high (or potentially too low; the number is arbitrary), but the general idea is that in your life there are only a handful of people who you should really care to keep tabs on. You can "friend" more than 25 people but you can only see the activit…

We need to separate the data layer from the app layer to allow free competition again.

I don't think that Facebook will be replaced with something so similar. I think what we need is an open data-platform that can contain (in a controlled way) social media data along with other kinds of data and then allow building social media apps on top of it. Otherwise we'll always be stuck using whatever the biggest supplier builds for us.

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Post by asdf21 »

freehunter wrote: post #257
jbigelow76 wrote: post #253

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One which limits your 'feed' to 25 friends and that is it. An ex-Googler (that never played defense![1]) tried that with the social network Path. I think the limit was 50 friends though. It failed. Edit: [1] Quote attribution: "I don’t use a ring of any kind on my phone. This is so that I am always on offense and never defense." - Dave Morin

To be fair, almost every non-Facebook social network has failed. I wouldn’t consider that to be proof that a limited social network can’t succeed but rather that social networking sites are difficult to produce.

Idk, I wanted to try path and never even got the chance because it never launched as far as I know (for the web at least?)

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Post by bhl »

busymom0 wrote: post #261
ckosidows wrote: post #248

#2. I've had an idea I've mulled around for a couple of years now about a new social network. One which limits your 'feed' to 25 friends and that is it. 25 might even be too high (or potentially too low; the number is arbitrary), but the general idea is that in your life there are only a handful of people who you should really care to keep tabs on. You can "friend" more than 25 people but you can only see the activit…

Can’t that be achieved by simply Facebook offering an option for feeds of manually created group by you? Like you create a group called closefriends where you add your close friends and family upto 25 members. Then a feed for those people only shows up? Almost similar to where each user is a subreddit and you create a multireddit.

Isn’t that the premise of twitter?

Re: Products I Wish Existed

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Post by ckosidows »

busymom0 wrote: post #261
ckosidows wrote: post #248

#2. I've had an idea I've mulled around for a couple of years now about a new social network. One which limits your 'feed' to 25 friends and that is it. 25 might even be too high (or potentially too low; the number is arbitrary), but the general idea is that in your life there are only a handful of people who you should really care to keep tabs on. You can "friend" more than 25 people but you can only see the activit…

Can’t that be achieved by simply Facebook offering an option for feeds of manually created group by you? Like you create a group called closefriends where you add your close friends and family upto 25 members. Then a feed for those people only shows up? Almost similar to where each user is a subreddit and you create a multireddit.

I do this right now on Facebook; you can unfollow anyone. I'm not following anyone and I have no feed. But the problem is people aren't going to voluntarily do this, and it's a big pain to unfollow hundreds of people.

This needs to be baked-in to have any real impact.

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Post by mattnewton »

Wistar wrote: post #277
gkfasdfasdf wrote: post #226

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Perhaps it should become a part of public middle school curriculum?

... along with how to write a good search query

Funny enough, I had a class on this in grade school, taught by the school librarian. It included quoting, AND, NOT and OR style stuff you could use in library search systems and it is pretty much all irrelevant now, but it was cool at the time and I wonder if it helped to be exposed to that kind of boolean logic early.

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Post by 0ld »

mdorazio wrote: post #34
buldoeo wrote: post #20

Correct me if I'm wrong, but No 5 already exists?! I'm from Europe. I have an app on my phone that shows me the pollution in the city I am. I check on it every time I'm in different places. It's called AirVisual. I installed it from google play, I have android.

I think he means a much more granular pollution map than what's available at the city level. Something like being able to get accurate pollution data at sub-kilometer precision, especially in suburb areas where monitoring stations tend to be sparse.

When there are big air pollution problems, people and municipalities usually install their own monitors.

Say, I live in a region with a very bad air quality in winter, and in the vicinity of my house there're at least 4 devices I can (and do) check - 2 from airly.eu (within 200m, installed by the village) and 2 from luftdaten.info (within ~1km, installed by the locals) and one mine

Re: Products I Wish Existed

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Post by chrisbigelow »

Not a pharmacological intervention, but I'm currently in the process of building out a newsletter for "longevity basics": https://pareto.substack.com/

I feel like too many people have gotten caught up in fringe science practices and "biohacking" the basic information that will keep us healthy and living long has been drowned out in the noise.

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Post by NikolaNovak »

jariel wrote: post #219
NikolaNovak wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

* I'd love to see that as well * At the same time: - A LOT of companies are uncomfortable making some of this data SaaS / external. I'm not saying they're right, but it's there - A LOT of companies are unique, or strongly believe they're unique, and that they need bespoke / highly customized software. I'm not saying they're right... ;) - I'm a techie, so it's taken me a decade to realize that implementing a new backo…

" that implementing a new backoffice suite by a consulting company is one third or less technical / IT project; and two thirds or more business process / transformation project" It's at least 50% sales.

A cynical comment that has some roots in truth, but really needs some metrics defined to be useful :-)

By time spent? Not on anything but the tiniest projects which are likely to be loss-leaders anyway.

By value added? For consulting company, sure, that's one way to look at it; for the customer, probably not :P

For the purposes of my post, pre-sales/sales/RFP/whatever were assumed to be done prior to start of implementation.

Though I will agree that how ERP project is pitched/sold may well have an impact on the delivery:

- the IT vs BT categorization per above is likely implicitly or explicitly setup at these early stages

- who the stakeholders/champions are / who signed off on purchase and why - the CIO because their previous product is EOL? The VP of functional department (HR/Finance/etc) because they want to realize value in changing processes? Etc

- are the timelines and deliverables reasonable

- is the goal / value realized / ROI well defined and agreed

- are the requirements and scope well defined and agreed

- etc

(edited to change nested brackets into bullet points :P )

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Post by [deleted] »

busymom0 wrote: post #261
ckosidows wrote: post #248

#2. I've had an idea I've mulled around for a couple of years now about a new social network. One which limits your 'feed' to 25 friends and that is it. 25 might even be too high (or potentially too low; the number is arbitrary), but the general idea is that in your life there are only a handful of people who you should really care to keep tabs on. You can "friend" more than 25 people but you can only see the activit…

Can’t that be achieved by simply Facebook offering an option for feeds of manually created group by you? Like you create a group called closefriends where you add your close friends and family upto 25 members. Then a feed for those people only shows up? Almost similar to where each user is a subreddit and you create a multireddit.

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Re: Products I Wish Existed

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Post by munificent »

blackbrokkoli wrote: post #166
munificent wrote: post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree with your overall point. However: > low-impact black-swan events like serial packet thiefs? I live in Seattle. Package theft is a white swan event here. Everyone I know has had packages stolen. Most people are forced to come up with some strategy to deal with it: get things shipped to work, use Amazon lockers, get a camera on your porch and make sure to bring the package inside as soon as it shows up, etc. Yo…

Fair enough, but as you literally state yourself, the security system does not even help . I repeat, it does nothing. > I literally have video of the dude grabbing shit off my porch, but can do nothing about it. The only thing all this security theater does is aiding super convoluted scenarios where your neighbors system informs you to take your package in, if you have one currently out, and are fast enough, and are…

> but as you literally state yourself, the security system does not even help. I repeat, it does nothing.

My first sentence said I agree with your overall point.

In my case, the main reason we have the cameras is because my wife felt they would help her feel more secure. They have been somewhat useful and/or worthwhile for other things:

* We can see who's at the door and ignore them if they are solicitors.

* When we're not home and someone knocks on the door, we can respond to them since the camera also has a speaker. When our friends dropped off a few Christmas presents while we were out at dinner, it was cool to be able to say thanks right then.

* On the off chance a more serious crime is committed, we may have footage of it. The police don't care about package theft, but they are likely to investigate trespassing, breaking and entering, etc.

* Sometimes we see bunnies and baby raccoons meandering around the alley, which is always cute.

I'm not a big fan of the system, but it is occasionally handy or rewarding to have access to a live camera around my house.

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