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  1. Manic Pixie Dream Girl classifier

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manic_pixie_dream_girl

    an algorithm that takes as input the social networking profile(s) of a person and tries to decide if that person is a MPDG, based on a training set of profiles that have been labeled as MPDGs or not.

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  2. espresso finder

    an iPhone app that, when launched, immediately searches for coffeeshops near me that are open now, and displays them on a map. for the times when i need coffee and simply want to find the closest place

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  3. browser-independent awesomebar

    application that runs in the background separate from a web browser (similarly to quicksilver) and listens constantly for changes to the browsing history of any of the web browsers on the computer (firefox, safari, chrome, etc). this would enable you to use different browsers for different tasks (chrome for google docs, safari for flash, firefox for reading, etc) while still compiling a unified history.

    you could the invoke the hotkeys, type some words from the page url or title, and then either open it in a new tab in the default browser, or choose a browser like you would with…

    4 votes
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  4. app(s) to measure time spent on different things

    OS X app that lives in menu bar and iPhone app that let's me create a list of the different ways I spend my time, maybe a list line [sleep, transportation, work, project 1, project 2, email, social, reading, cleaninh], and then i can just select what i'm doing, and it records it for me and calculates daily/weekly/monthly totals and makes some graphs

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  5. Diplomacy iPhone app

    There's a board game similar to Risk called Diplomacy that might make even more sense on the iPhone. It's played with seven people, and maybe all of them would need iPhones, but there are a few cool things it could do.

    Movement orders for the pieces are all submitted at once for all players and are executed simultaneously (an example of one might be "Fleet in Stevastopol move to the Black Sea", or "F Sev - Bla" for short), and this would be super easy to do on on an iPhone, and it could resolve the orders and figure out…

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  6. Ransom auction for digital goods

    A "digital good" is anything that has negligible replication costs but high up-front costs.

    A creator of digital goods (musician, author, filmmaker, whatever) offers to make their next work "free" for everyone (either gratis or libre, but at the very least free to copy and share), IF a "ransom" auction is met. The creator sets a price $x (higher than the up-front cost of creation), and once the sum of public donations towards the ransom price has met at least $x, the creator "releases" the work to the public.

    In this setup "piracy" is a feature, not a bug. The…

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  7. Crowdsourced attention allocation

    This idea is for people who are busy, important, or otherwise have lots of demands on their time.

    This person makes their to-do list publicly available online. Others can request this person's time/attention by adding new items on the list. The trick to make this ever-growing to-do list manageable is that others can not only add to the list but also complete tasks on the list. People who complete tasks on the list earn "karma" that they can spend to prioritize other tasks (either tasks they themselves submitted or any tasks they would like to see completed).

    People who use…

    4 votes
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  8. Chatting client that formats code nicely

    Like dpaste.com, but live.

    13 votes
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  9. Twitter art project

    use each tweet in a home page as a frame in an animation, change it slowly, as a sort of poetry and/or ASCII art

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  10. News tracking service that emphasizes "slow news" and story tracking.

    News today is too focused on "what's happening right now." Stories have less analysis, and people forget what happened a week ago. I want a service that tracks news stories, and holds journalists (and people) accountable. Features include a playback function, which allows people to playback a news story as it happened.

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  11. Email collaborative list filtering tool

    I wish gmail would open up it's spam filtering engine (that probably uses a Bayes filter and some crazy other stuff) so that people could start training their own filters for all sorts of stuff and share/collaborate on them with others. that would be sweet, and perhaps useful for the ITP student list and other lists where a lot of people find a lot of the same emails to be crap

    collaborative email filter creation
    bayesian filtering

    maybe set up intermediary email accounts to actually do the filtering? and use greasemonkey to give feedback from within Gmail?

    3 votes
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  12. browser/OS plugin that told me where my tabs came from

    which application or person or Twitter account/etc, even days later.. maybe a little screenshot showing where the link was that opened it

    3 votes
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  13. intelligent Flash-blocking browser plugin

    intended as an improvement upon current browser plugins such as http://flashblock.mozdev.org/ (Firefox) and http://www.tuaw.com/2009/10/14/clicktoflash-makes-the-web-a-nicer-place-to-visit/ (Safari), this would pair a browser plugin with a web application that contained a user-maintained database of websites where people could indicate how annoyed they were with the flash content on it. as the data improved, the plugin could intelligently white-list sites with which users were not annoyed. in this way good design and essential lightweight functionality would still be accessible, but the bad stuff would be disabled by default.

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  14. Google Analytics-style data for museums

    to know what people look at, where they go, how they move

    maybe use security camera feeds with blob detection to see how people move

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  15. use Amazon's Mechanical Turk to transcribe my notebooks

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  16. iPhone app for Ikea

    with shopping list, location of items in warehouse, stock at nearby stores, driving directions, etc

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  17. make a UserVoice page to manage project ideas

    https://arc90.kindlingapp.com/ and http://getsatisfaction.com but they are not free..

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  18. Meetup location selection idea

    venue database + google maps or hopstop + private home addresses of all group members -> choose locations for meetups that are maximally convenient

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  19. desktop app to queue web videos

    youtube api?
    drop.io with video? like playlist.io
    test drop at http://drop.io/i6wjxls#

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  20. apartment building based social networking

    photo and apartment number, visible only to people in same building

    for sharing local information, apt information

    http://urbanomnibus.net/2009/02/post-it-notes-for-neighbors/

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