Startup Ideas

What you're describing reminds me of mindmapping services online like mindmeister. Or is your app less graphical? - Fulaan, inna Hebel

TrafficBug, I might as well include such a feature if experiments prove fruitful/usable, but it appears to be more of a visual feature than a structural/implementation one. Yet again, why not. I have bookmarked this discussion and implementing features listed / features found in mentioned apps. Beta will be rolled out soon. Just hang on a bit there ;) - Necmettin from IM

"I fell head over heals for a girl. I thought about her way too often, missed her way more than a normal person ought to, and was pretty much in a constant state of love-induced sugar shock. I didn't want to seem overzealous or desperate, so I tried to play it cool -- and yet, the impulse to post embarrassing, saccharine love quotes to Facebook was overwhelming (I am but only a dork, after all)." - Fulaan, inna Hebel from Bookmarklet

....tl;dr -- fell in love with a chick, wanted to do something special for her, suck at everything else, so I built her a webapp. - Fulaan, inna Hebel

So this is basically a Twitter search with trending topics as well, except get this: results come with sound too. A radio-like broadcast reads results in the background as they come in. Cool. - Fulaan, inna Hebel

Cool! - TrafficBug

like - Ninja Monkey!! from IM

"Hi. My name is Brandon Paton and I am 17 years old. I am the CEO and President of stealth mode startup College Credential, Inc. I have founded four successful internet startups (one of which was acquired), and currently serve on the board of advisors of a rapidly growing startup. And don’t forget I’m only 17. Sound impressive? Too bad, because most of what I just told you is not true." - Fulaan, inna Hebel from Bookmarklet

And pardon the graphic, was one of the only decent gImages results I could find ;) - Fulaan, inna Hebel

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ottimo anche quello si, anche se l'api key mi veniva più veloce, dato che la salvo anche nei cookie e quindi è come fossi loggato anche sul blog :) - Nicola Greco

am I the first who used the word DMM ? - Nicola Greco

cool, do you think could be fine? - Nicola Greco

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put your idea here ..it can be worth $25000 - http://bit.ly/4BE1V4 - ideas4all

I think it's a good idea. Group together people that you follow because they share a common purpose. I would like to see this put further by being able to send one group a tweet the rest of my followers don't see. Only real solution seems to be multiple accounts which is frustrating - Tomas Marquez

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Nate Aune's presentation at the Open Source Bridge conference. - Michael R. Bernstein from Bookmarklet

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Try to keep up to date, so my book budget has gone a bit up... Also try to make sure to get some walking in etc. My biggest problem is probably that I don't get out of the house too much. So scheduling walks etc. keeps me from shutting in totally. My wife is lovely at kicking me in the ass also :-P - Rasmus Lauridsen

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Alright gabe, you should have an invite. - Sidharth Shah

Hey, thanks Sid! Haven't gotten the invite yet, but I'm assuming there is some kind of queue. Hope all is going well in India! - grag

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it is useful in many ways. what are you looking for? - Vinayak Joshi

""We live in an era of rapid innovation." I'm sure you've heard that phrase, or some variant, over and over again. The evidence appears to be all around us: Google (GOOG), Facebook, Twitter, smartphones, flat-screen televisions, the Internet itself. But what if the conventional wisdom is wrong? What if outside of a few high-profile areas, the past decade has seen far too few commercial innovations that can transform lives and move the economy forward? What if, rather than being an era of rapid innovation, this has been an era of innovation interrupted? And if that's true, is there any reason to expect the next decade to be any better?" - Michael R. Bernstein from Bookmarklet

"[A] weekly video series detailing the founders, mentors and events throughout the summer. Every Tuesday at noon you can see the a new episode following three of our Boulder teams as they progress through the program. We are going to do 14 episodes showing what the experience is like as the teams build their companies." - Michael R. Bernstein from Bookmarklet

Hah! I beat Andrew by posting this first! [Edit: Darn, no I didn't.] - Michael R. Bernstein

This was a really great webinar. I even got my question answered (at 00:59)! - Michael R. Bernstein

"Plenty of other laid-off workers across the country, burned out by a merciless job market, are building business plans instead of sending out résumés. For these people, recession has become the mother of invention." - Michael R. Bernstein from Bookmarklet

The entire discussion about business-model constraints that might apply to my recent idea for a brand new medium and content industry. - Michael R. Bernstein from Bookmarklet

This is a great site for getting the creative juices flowing. - Michael R. Bernstein

Here's an idea I had today. It's not something I have the time to do myself (nor am I really sure it's a great idea), but maybe someone else wants to give it a shot. It's takes the basic twitter concept and applies it to story telling. A user would be able to create a "story" and then periodically post short updates coming from the viewpoint of the story's protagonist (so the story would be told in first person). Others could then follow the story online or receive updates on their mobile phone. Much of the appeal of twitter is the ability to follow the day to day lives of the people you know (follow their life stories). Couldn't this format be applied to fictional story telling? - grag

Interesting, thanks for the link. Sounds like a cool experiment but probably not a good model for a startup. - grag

Anyone know of any web services that allow users to connect their twitter account (have their activity autoposted to their twitter stream via twitter api), and have been able to gain significant traction because of that? I'm thinking about doing this for a project I'm working on, but I have a hunch that twitter users generally don't want content automatically posted to their twitter account. - grag

Here's an idea. A third party service that would enable you to leverage your community to translate your website into other languages. Users would simply click a "help translate this site" button, they'd see a list of languages that that you are accepting translations for, click a language, and then click on text anywhere on the site and enter a translated version. If a paragraph has already been translated they could give it a thumbs up or make modifications. Once all the website's copy has been translated and given a thumbs up by a specified number of other users it would then go live. All a web developer would have to do is add the the translate button and a javascript include that handles the user interaction (and possibly even also handles serving up the correct translation depending on a users IP location). - grag

I think Google will tackle something like this eventually, if not already. - Adrian

There are plenty of analytics services out there, but I'm thinking of a service that something that a web developer could incorporate into their social media website so that their users can see info about who is viewing their content. Something as simple and customizable as js-kit's comments add-on, but for webs stats. - grag

How about a translation service for travelers who really need to translate something quickly wherever they are. They'd take a picture of whatever they need translated with their mobile phone (or record the voice of someone telling them something they don't understand) and the service would forward the image or recording to users who have signed up to be translators for a particular language set (english to spanish, french to swedish, etc). The translator would translate the message, send it back to the service, and it would be redirected back to the original person who needed the translation done, who pays a fee which is split between the service company and the translator. - grag