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what are the dutch knockoffs? (so we can have a look)
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.
Startup idea list
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#74I 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...
Well the problem with the good behaviour idea is that governments are not waiting for volunteers to start lifecasting. They simply put their surveillance cameras everywhere. This is already happening in Europe, don't know about the US. Big Brother is growing...
Another interesting question is what kind of good behavior would social pressure evoke? Would people use the same yardsticks for themselves as for other people? Or would they just try to hold society in check, so that they themselves could roam free?
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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.
That's just cliche. What is intuitive? I'm using a Mac right now. I like it, but I've had endless troubles explaining it to others. It's things like the difference between installed programs and running programs. The difference between task based and object/type based actions. People don't grasp how file systems work. People don't grasp the difference between main memory and harddisk and everything connected to it like saving documents. And don't get me started about networks and login identities...
The desktop metaphor is useless and inconsistent with other things like windows. The desk I'm sitting at physically does NOT have windows cluttering it up! Windows are in the wall, not on my desk. I don't know who had the idea that this is in any way intuitive. My desk also doesn't have programs that are connected in some magic way to my documents. A menu is something I use in a restaurant, not at work or when I watch a movie.
These are not Mac specific problems, but the Mac doesn't solve them either. We need a radically different idea of how a system's complexity scales with its growing capabilities. We need to stop confronting people with that old Von Neumann architeture and we have to stop the attempt to mitigate it with with grotesque inconsistent metaphors.
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#76A better email client - automatic classification of incoming mail, understanding mailing list headers, reminding me to add attachments if I've said "see attached", understanding bounce messages and tracking them against that address in my contacts list ("You're trying to email . I see that didn't work last time. Please check the address is correct."). etc.
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#77i don't know. find a way to take away some of the pain I feel as a computer user: having to have like 30 different logins for all the sites and communities that interest me where i inevitably wind up using the same password for all of them and a similar username for most of them feeling paranoid when i browse the internet on a windows machine even when i use firefox, run windows update, and avoid leet juarez d00d sit…
See Microsoft CardSpaces (InfoCard). I don't know if it will catch on but it is very sound technically.
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#78A social fashion site. Categorize your entire wardrobe with photos, favorite brand, sizes, date of purchase, photos of you wearing combinations, links to friends, that kind of stuff. If girls would program, such a site would have been invented around 1997 - instead we got slashdot.
Other existing entrants:
stylemob.com
fashmatch.com
shareyourlook.com
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#79A really good quality standard CSS layout. I don't mean the stylesheets - no, those come later - no, I mean a really good, one size genuinely does fit all, semantic HTML layout. Does blogs, does galleries, does comments, does discussions, in a single well thought out semantic HTML format. Then you have a library of CSS templates that people can use. And people can upload new templates. And each template gets checked,…
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#80A social fashion site. Categorize your entire wardrobe with photos, favorite brand, sizes, date of purchase, photos of you wearing combinations, links to friends, that kind of stuff. If girls would program, such a site would have been invented around 1997 - instead we got slashdot.
Other existing entrants: stylemob.com fashmatch.com shareyourlook.com
fashionvictimsanonymous.com (free for the taking)