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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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iPhone drop.io app for media sharing at events
I installed Droppler and found that it provides a pretty robust interface for interacting with the site, so this new app would not be intended to replace that. Instead, it would be focused on a relatively specific purpose: intuitive and simple real-time sharing of media at large public events. It would be useful for events such as concerts, conferences, presentations, meetups (such as NYTM), and political rallies. The new app would leverage the locations associated with drops to allow people to easily find the drops for the event at which they currently are.
Users at an event would be able…
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seminar class discussion system
a class discussion moderation system that goes like this: a screen maintains the speaker order - whoever is next on the screen after the current person finishes speaks next. people add themselves to the list by texting or twittering or whatever, it's automated. but the list is not FIFO! oh no it is most certainly not. at the beginning of every class each student gets 100 points. whenever someone texts in, they must indicate how many points they are willing to spend to speak sooner rather than later/never. the person who has placed the highest bid gets to speak next;…
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ISP Customer Mapping/Coordination
http://lehrblogger.com/2008/10/25/web-idea-isp-customer-mapping/
Web Idea – ISP Customer Mapping/Coordination
I know a lot of people who are unhappy with their ISP (Internet Service Provider) – connections are often slow and unreliable, customer service is abysmal, and sometimes there are even explicit usage restrictions. Even worse, many areas are dominated by a single companies with local monopolies, so the consumer doesn’t even have a choice. Finally, there are many rural areas for which no one has even bothered to build broadband access, raising issues relating to the ‘digital divide‘.
My idea consists of two main parts: first, a map that shows which ISP’s…
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web hosting company idea
they should put advertisements on pages that go over the quota instead of making them inaccessible
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Google index of all my content
It would be cool if Google created a single index of all of the files of mine that they have - email attachments, google docs, photos, group files, etc - so I could move them around and make copies freely
maybe even index data on other services
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Gmail attachment converter to PDFs
whenever you automatically upload a .doc, if you would like it to conver it to a PDF for you
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capitalization convention tool
to convert the selected text to all caps, no caps, proper caps, etc.
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kayak.com iPhone app
iPhone app that uses the Kayak API to facilitate buying plane tickets on the go
app can make lots of money by slightly marking up each purchase?
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pcomp project - modify a Moleskine to be an instrument
put force sensing resisters on the cover, cut open the inside for an arduino, an accelerometer, and maybe my iPhone, have the input from the various sensors estimate my speed, how it's being held, etc, and use the inputs to control the music
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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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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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location-aware radio
coffee shop/subway music - listen to same things as others without needing to communicate with them
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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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desktop app to queue web videos
youtube api?
drop.io with video? like playlist.io
test drop at http://drop.io/i6wjxls#0 votes
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