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Ask: What would you do/make if you never had to monetize it?
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Re: Ask: What would you do/make if you never had to monetize it?
#92An alternative to hierarchical file systems.
How about a Zork style room-model file system?
You are in Foocorp documents. East is Bloggins&Smith, south is Vexcorp.
You can see Foocorp.xls
Bob is here. Jane is here.
Bob says "Jim, can we go over the numbers for Foo?"
> Use Foocorp.xls with Excel
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Re: Ask: What would you do/make if you never had to monetize it?
#93bread. seriously. i think i would own a bakery.
A lawyer named Warren Brown decided he had more fun baking cakes than practicing law, so in 2002 he did just that: http://cakelove.com/about_story.php
It looks like he's up to 4 bakeries (soon 5), a cafe, a book, and a TV show.
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#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
an ice-cream shop would be neat too
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#95Two girls at the same time.
That would be pretty easy to monetize ;)
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#97I created StoryMash.com
Awesome!
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#98I'd go to school and take all sorts of different classes on all sorts of different topics. I'd love to go to school for the rest of my life.
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
While you're not monetizing things, you might as well create a new Web server OS where it's actually easy to install applications.
It's called Debian. ;-)
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#100A programming language. And possibly a peer-to-peer filesharing network using it.
What is the purpose in combining the two? A way of creating a distributed system like Inferno? Or because you happen to like both ideas?
I happen to like both ideas. I was big into P2P systems when I got my first programming job - this was right after Napster and Gnutella came out. Then I did a lot of research into programming language design in college.
There's some synergy in that every programming language needs some system to script if it wants to gain massive adoption, so you might as well use the programming language you just invented to write the cool app you're about to invent. Plus, there're some really interesting possibilities if you could replace all these social networking websites with a gigantic distributed P2P network. Social software partitions very well - even if a particular service has millions of users, it's unlikely that any given user exchanges data with more than about 150 other users. You'd eliminate the need for Facebook, at the least, and probably the need for most web startups.