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a comeback of one-liners
Drawing software that Just Draws - pen tool, no color, no shapes
MSPaint for OSX
ThreadsML to work for up to parents at creation time of child
Something about XMLQuery and instant web services (bloxsom web services)
GeoLocation that reminds you want you wanted to do when you get
somewhere
Personal surfing tracker that captures the whole page
Agent Frank
Way to meet people etc without going to portals
Cross-platform calendaring
(maybe iCal will do this one day?)
A Better Word Processor
should view the writing process as mapping from stream of
consciousness to structure
Magic Mapping Software
represents reality the way he wants it to
interactive SVG editor for shared drawing
visual aggregation of incoming info on large displays (lots of data
feeds) - "Visual RSS"
wireless laptop tool that builds wireless coverage maps on the fly
wigle.net
reprogram his thermostat
free MTV
LDAP editor
fast blogging/mail/writing/etc device for conferences
iBook! PowerBook is faster!
way to manage data between systems?
seamless switching between modes? wiki, chat, hydra, weblogs
widen the OSX services pipe
"super-proxy"
2nd level news "filtering" via reputation or other peer-group filtering
(which 10 blogs out of my 120 ones subscribed to should I read now)
wifi hotspot thing
Avaya
always-on digital metadata for printed books
"a book is a place I can share"
hydra allows you to edit text in realtime. You output the text, but it
takes the color coding away. Do something to keep the color coding when
the document is saved.
audio tour guide to subscribe to Clay's cult while walking through a
physical place
generalized web service "critical mass" - enter a Challenge (eg pledge
drive), get participants, lockin
when you have sufficient participation
Alex Jacobson is working on this
Want system for email that ...missed this part meet girls.
private email ISP without using permanent email address
MailBlocks
TMDS
SpamEx
recognition of solution underway for a LazyWeb idea
intelligent RDF editor that knows about tags and structure
quick topic organization on personal level - bookmarks on steroids -
wiki that ties into google
something to handle reply mail with deeply-embedded quotes
intelligent presence management system that exposes contact info,
forwards phone calls, location-based info
SMS + IM?
download entire blogosphere and push out via BitTorrent, index it
locally
Internet Archive is doing something for this?
find stuff - atoms - misplaced - RFID possessions
3d simulation linking with restaurant reviews, VR browse neighborhood,
talk to other visitors online
more purple numbering - granular reference to document detail
P2P sharing of family photos
Greg Elin
Google for his laptop - mail plus files
find.com
localized ebay with rfid tags of 2nd-hand goods locating the items in
the store
"enfish" went bust - local data indexer
private weblog tool
make some items public, others private
most blogging tools can do this, somehow
auto-mathematica
dwim shell for unix
system blog - all apps should put entries there in human-readable form
different from syslog - wants a subset of syslog
Publish option on anything that he can take a photo with
scan books at B&N then order them from amazon
get his wife on IM
automatically film himself over time, with geolocation and index the
whole thing
combine email, surfing, etc in one place
encapsulate online communities so they can interop
every web page that might have something interesting should be
subscribable
have google remember what you've read before
sync ical and text
turn ibook into captive portal
calculate-your-consumption web portal
anti-photo software, invisibility shield
filter for newsreader
some way to get business expenses online without manual entry
easy tool for categorizing very large photobases
new audiobook format for the text and image to be shown simultaneously
spamassassin isn't good enough - play asteroids with your spam!
extra themes from text, extract common threads, identify arguments,
rebuttals
multithreaded emacs - Real GC
web-based front-end on usenet?
semantic web
personalized blogdex
newsmonster
make suggestions for your writing by analyzing other people's writing
client-side wiki editing tools, better editing tools than raw wiki
self-driving car
mini-app that sets all other apps to default on save/open to the current project folder
mini-app that blocks IM at certain times, while using certain apps
render a web page as a thumbnail - visual representation of a page that
can be manipulated
web service: given a URL, generate a little JPEG
tie spam recognition to a reputation system
micropayments
digital identity
view who is visiting your web site and what they're reading; be able to
intrude with IM
"invisible" login mode?
what were the sources for a particular news article (including
newspapers)
bot that polls recent articles on major online newspapers; observe
rewriting
Darwin streaming video server that can handle multiple formats and
allow for identification of
specific points in the video stream
Google news - search by locale and topic
Scrolling assistants with better visual cues
permission-based spidering - robots.txt
low-cost barcode reader with link to amazon
scanby.com
software barcode scanner to work with any digital camera
amazon data into the semantic web
automatically updating apache module robot blacklist
common storage of bookmarks, with annotation; sharing the annotations
tivo for car radio
virus checker for spyware - AdAware
download internet to the car, text-to-speech while driving
assign exif data to scanned images
read newsfeeds aloud
plan-ahead phone calls to avoid phone mail
babelfish for uncommon languages
capture info from incoming emails into vcard format
rotating banner to-do lists - replace ad banners with private content
keyboard shortcut to flag a page as interesting, for local indexing
web service that rss reader can use to do reputation with - newsmonster
remember mozilla state across crashes
"real easy" local system backup
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