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Re: Ask: What would you do/make if you never had to monetize it?

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Post by staticshock »

dkokelley wrote: post #16
Xichekolas wrote: post #8

An alternative to hierarchical file systems.

I've been thinking recently about that too. It's inefficient to use a traditional folder/file system, at least for your personal documents (for system and program files I think they're better off the original way.) What about folders that represent tags? I could tag a file (say a picture) with Danny (my name), Vacation, and 2007. The system creates 4 "folders" as we understand them, each one labeled with a tag, and t…

I've considered this idea myself, previously, and I like it a lot. The beauty is that if you go to \Images\Vacation\2005, it's the same as going to \2005\Vacation\Images, so you can access your files in an intuitive way no matter which train of thought got you there.

The only thing I haven't been able to figure out is how to represend these tags as directories. You shouldn't see them all at the top level, that'd be pretty crowded.

Re: Ask: What would you do/make if you never had to monetize it?

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Post by optimal »

mosburger wrote: post #36
optimal wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

mos, have you seen _Local Breads_, by Daniel Leader? Just got it from the library and will try his baguettes tomorrow.

I haven't, but I'll be sure to check it out now. I love cooking and gardening, but restaurants generally have one of the worst failure rates of any business. So it's all hacking for me for now...

If you're interested, drop me a line and I'll send you a couple of bready links (written while preheating the oven--pizza's about to go in!).

Here's a guy who's doing good things with pizza: http://www.billyreisinger.com/pizza.php

Some inspiration: http://www.billyreisinger.com/pizza_log.html

Re: Ask: What would you do/make if you never had to monetize it?

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Post by royce »

aristus wrote: post #15
Kaizyn wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What would you do with them? And why would more than one be needed?

They'd do what libraries do: collect and preserve. Several already exist, like archive.org and Google cache. But Google's cache exists for Google's purposes. Archive.org is often forced to take down material, especially since the DMCA. You need a real decentralized network that is both lawyer- and disaster-resistant. It is impossible for, say, the New York Times to change or obliterate what it printed on some day in…

You might also want to take a look at LOCKSS (I'm not affiliated; just thought it was interesting):

"LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) is an international non-profit community initiative that provides tools and support so libraries can easily and cost-effectively preserve today’s web-published materials for tomorrow’s readers."

Currently OpenBSD-based, but I think that I heard that they are looking to migrate to FreeBSD to take advantage of ZFS.

http://www.lockss.org/lockss/

Re: Ask: What would you do/make if you never had to monetize it?

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Post by frankus »

Kaizyn wrote: post #10

An open social graph where each user owns their own data that would 1) keep that data protected, 2) let the user decide which parts of their data is visible to the web applications of their choosing, and 3) not able to be exploited by the likes of Microsoft and Google to better merchandise to users. This type of system will never get built because there's only money in using a user's data against them and users won't…

Sounds like something closer to a social graph plugin for people that already have a personal web site.

You might be able to make money at this by offering a no-hassle hosted version for the lazy, and give away the API and GPLed reference implementation.

Re: Ask: What would you do/make if you never had to monetize it?

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Post by wallflower »

dkokelley wrote: post #16
Xichekolas wrote: post #8

An alternative to hierarchical file systems.

I've been thinking recently about that too. It's inefficient to use a traditional folder/file system, at least for your personal documents (for system and program files I think they're better off the original way.) What about folders that represent tags? I could tag a file (say a picture) with Danny (my name), Vacation, and 2007. The system creates 4 "folders" as we understand them, each one labeled with a tag, and t…

What is your opinion (on the concepts) of David Gelenter's Lifestreams project?

http://www.cs.yale.edu/~freeman/lifestreams.html

One can imagine it's Time Machine'sque metaphor being extended to archive your online life (twitter, Facebook) as well (assuming the data could be retrieved)

Re: Ask: What would you do/make if you never had to monetize it?

#49

Post by Xichekolas »

staticshock wrote: post #41
dkokelley wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been thinking recently about that too. It's inefficient to use a traditional folder/file system, at least for your personal documents (for system and program files I think they're better off the original way.) What about folders that represent tags? I could tag a file (say a picture) with Danny (my name), Vacation, and 2007. The system creates 4 "folders" as we understand them, each one labeled with a tag, and t…

I've considered this idea myself, previously, and I like it a lot. The beauty is that if you go to \Images\Vacation\2005, it's the same as going to \2005\Vacation\Images, so you can access your files in an intuitive way no matter which train of thought got you there. The only thing I haven't been able to figure out is how to represend these tags as directories. You shouldn't see them all at the top level, that'd be p…

I always just thought you'd index the tags and search on them.

Re: Ask: What would you do/make if you never had to monetize it?

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Post by petercooper »

Exactly what I already did. All of the things I've created that have ended up making me lots of money weren't created out of a need to monetize them. I make things I want or need and then monetize them later when I need to, if they take off. Starting something JUST to make money is a mug's game.
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