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Ask: What would you do/make if you never had to monetize it?
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#62Local Social Software - chat rooms, bulletin boards, and other programs that are meant to facilitate realspace interactions rather than replace them. An example is Craigslist, another is a chat room that only works for people currently inside a certain coffeehouse or living in a certain neighborhood.
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#63An 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…
Google Docs is organized this way.
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#64bread. seriously. i think i would own a bakery.
Good for you. Really good, fresh bread, is a treat that not enough people appreciate.
My aunt and uncle opened a private bakery where they bake bread mainly for friends. It's really good stuff. I, for one, appreciate freshly baked bread.
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#65The "free" facebook. - no ads, period - all personal info is held under the watchful eye of a seperate, non-profit org that ensures no personal info is ever shared with third parties - you can delete your own account whenever you want, and you won't get hassled. An actual deletion of your data, too - all source code is open source, and people can contribute whatever features they want
What "special sauce" does Facebook have that couldn't be implemented as a self-installed "plugin" on a personal web site? - It'd be nice to be able to plug my favorite artist/author/etc. So I'd vote for whatever ads the profile owner wants to put on his/her profile. - Why not have each person's data held under the watchful eye of the hosting provider they're already with? - Last I checked you can delete your 1and1/dr…
I think these are interesting points, and the dream project would have to be syndicatable so hackers could roll their own pages as you suggest.
The issue is that facebook is great because so many people are on it. So for the dream project to work, it has to be really easy to set up. I am guessing that the average user does not want to grab a dreamhost account, install software, etc.
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#66Text adventure games, a la Infocom.
You may be interested in Textfyre, a company started by an acquaintance of mine which actually hopes to monetize these again.
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#67Text adventure games, a la Infocom.
My friend and I want to create a roguelike. We hacked stone soup a little, then ran out of time.
I'm interested in EAs like ericb, and want to see, if combined with human creativity, they can produce interesting creatures.
Also, once I have time, I've thought of implementing a MUD in scheme so that it is reprogrammable by the players. I'd use kawa so they also have the power of the java libraries.
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#68What I'm doing now.
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#69Earlier 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…
Google Docs is organized this way.
Is it really? I thought it was just search for your documents by keywords found in them. There is no way to look at all the tags or navigate through them. That's actually one of my issues with GDocs. You don't have many organizational tools for the documents. They would actually be a good candidate for an overhaul similar to what we're discussing.
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#70A programming language. And possibly a peer-to-peer filesharing network using it.
That's what Tsumobi were working on last time I talked to them (and the programming language part was already well under way).
Tsumobi was doing a platform for mobile apps last I talked to them (which was close to a year ago). Is the programming language + P2P network part of that project, or have they switched directions?