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foursquare + craigslist missed connections
to alert you when someone posts a missed connections add on craigslist at a place that you checked in around when you were there
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iPhone app - 'run pee' for when in movies
why isn't that an iphone app?
(and god why is it in flash why)
location+time, you'd have a list of likely shows on launch, you'd know when to leave in one tap maybe two3 votes -
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foursquare check-in verification idea
use the cell phones of the wait staff to confirm check-ins and prevent cheating, with a four digit code or something
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foursquare dataviz
use foursquare data to create a visualization of where i go and at what times of the day/week
or tell me where my friends are now using placemarks that fade with time, rather than a list
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NetFlix-like model for framed art prints
rotating, queue, number at a time based on wall space
works best in city where items can be delivered?
inspired by NetPix photo in May 2009 edition of The Onion
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jailbroken iPhone app/OS for suitcase tracking
an old first generation iPhone could be left powered on in a checked suitcase running custom jailbroken software. it could stay in airplane mode (so as not to disrupt flight) while in the air (as determined by the accelerometer during takeoff and landing), and then periodically determine location from GPS or cell tower triangulation when on the ground, and transmit that location to a server so that the owner of the bag could see what city/airport/terminal the bag was in, in case it was lost.
(see 12/31/2010 conver with Jorge)
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iphone app for amusement parks
use data about where people are and what they want to do to balance crowd loads and optimize time spent waiting in line across all the attractions in the park
possibly create some small-scale geospatial game to encourage people to explore
payment for food and rides and games!
interactive map, ride reviews, day planning, communication between people at the park together, etc
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iPhone-to-iPhone electric charge transfer cable
a cable that plugs into two iPhones, one on each end, and transfers charge from one to the other until they are equal
for when you're with a friend and need power but don't have a wall plug or USB
"it feels dirty, kind of like unprotected sex" - a friend
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"calendaring machine" iPhone app
i want an iphone app that would read my google calendar, monitor my location with background GPS, and send me a push notification if I wasn't heading in the direction of wherever I was supposed to be in time for me to be there on time.
"no no i really must be going, my phone says so! look here!"
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an Internet spoof of the LCD Soundsystem song 'Losing My Edge'
in the style of The New Dork - Entrepreneur State of Mind (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exmwSxv7XJI), which is a spoof of (Jay-Z ft Alicia Keys - Empire State of Mind (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UjsXo9l6I8)
the idea is that kids these days - teenagers in high school, for example, are much more in touch with digital tools than people in their 20's and 30's, just as that latter group is much more in touch than the generation before them. it's impossible to hold on to the understanding, because the world changes too quickly...
initial idea from a discussion with Chris Anderson on August…
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asynchronous voice chat
a simple tool for two or more people to have an asynchronous voice conversation. voicemail is muuuch too cumbersome - this wouldn't be somewhere where people would say "call me back" but would instead be where they could just say what they wanted to say. would work well for multiple people, and it could keep track of what each person has listened to. like a normal conversation, but slower.
a lightweight interface, maybe SMS notifications? build it on Twilio!!
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comparitive analysis of cities based on their missed connections
a data visualization that paints a dynamic picture of a city using analysis of language used as well as frequency and time of day/time of year
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alternate google maps tiles
write a program to take existing google tiles, modify them slightly (move roads, rename things, add fake landmarks) and then re-serve them as if they were real. maybe you could even change /etc/hosts so that the requests for the tiles on maps.google.com go somewhere other than google's servers?
maps that don't match the territory
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foursquare tips search app
simple app for finding foursquare tips left by your friends in a certain geographic area. use foursquare API methods (that don't exist yet, gr) to get all of your friends tips, and then a library such as http://gmaps-utility-library-dev.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/geometrycontrols/examples/test.html to draw the polygons
perhaps do foursquare API calls from the client side somehow?
name ideas: tip box, box of tips, tips in a box
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email management tool
email management tool that prioritizes messages based on how long it took you to respond to previous messages to the same person that matched a similar semantic profile
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social life management tool
a simple web app that, in its most basic form lets you enter someone's name and the date that you hung out with them. each person you hang out with can have a list of dates on which you saw them, and you can sort by who you hang out with most/least and who it has been the shortest/longest amount of time since you've seen.
it could eventually integrate with foursquare and maybe facebook and twitter and etc, but for now i want something slightly more powerful than a spreadsheet for keeping track of who it's time for me to…
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an event that continually postpones itself
an art project in the style of Caleb Larsen's "A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter" (2009) http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190365249352
an event that reschedules itself as a result of some action of the attendees. but how to plug a party into a wall, and make it act autonomously?
make a group with an event on meetup.com, and run an application somewhere that uses their API to automatically schedule an event, and postpone it every time a new person RSVP'd - some sort of game mechanic to keep people interested and involved in preventing it from occurring. maybe costumes and other event preparation could…
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single serving domain generator
like http://bigassmessage.com/ but not flash and not crappy. run it on appengine, in the style of http://www.facebookisntgmail.com/
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