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Take these ideas…please

June 1, 2012
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For the next month, I’m committed to sharing almost every one of my ideas — no matter how valuable, and no matter how terrible.

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SinglesMob: An app for turning parties into mixers

June 1, 2012

Envisioning an app that lets you blast your single friends with the news that you are at a party with a lot of single guys (and not enough women) or vice versa.

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NameRater: A search tool for evaluating a possible name change

June 2, 2012

Wanted: a search tool that evaluates the search engine visibility of your prospective married name, or the name you are considering for your baby.

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Rain swag for the farmers market

June 2, 2012

It would be awesome if the Vancouver Farmers Market Society sold umbrellas at their market booth. If you were at Trout Lake this afternoon you know the source of this inspiration.

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Butt-crack mural: Rethinking self-judgement

June 2, 2012

This post was an exercising in suspending self-judgement: in this case, the judgement that a giant mural stitching together butt-crack photos is an unshareably bad idea.

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YouDrawIt: The shopping engine that lets you drive

June 2, 2012

Wanted: a shopping engine that lets me draw the shape I’m looking for —  whether it’s a shoe, a shirt or a dress — and then searches the site for items that appear to match my shape.

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12-Step Social Media Scanner & Intervention Bot

June 3, 2012

Imagining a 12-step bot that constantly scans people’s social media feeds for signs that things are out of control, and then tweets you the location of your nearest AA, Overeaters Anonymous or Shoppers Anonymous.

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The Genzlingerizer: An app to enhance offline reading (and an IFTTT workaround)

June 3, 2012

I want to set up rules for the publications I read in print, specifying the authors or topics that qualify as must-reads. When said publication appears at my door, I want to launch an iPhone app that tells me which pages to look at in this morning’s New York Times, this week’s New Yorker, or the latest Entertainment Weekly. Then I want an easy way to take whatever I’m reading in print, and convert it to a set of links that are ready to share online.

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Blackout ribbon: Avoiding grim news and spoilers

June 4, 2012

I’d like to designate a coloured ribbon that would be as universally recognized as the yellow or pink ribbon campaigns. See someone wearing this ribbon, and you know that they don’t want to discuss the latest grim news stories. A more elaborate version could prevent spoilers, too.

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ShoeCamp: An (imaginary) unconference for the footwear-obsessed

June 4, 2012

Madeline Stanionis inspired this vision for ShoeCamp, an unconference for the footwear-obsessed.

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ClickCentral: a web app for tracking clicks on all tweeted links

June 6, 2012

I want a single analytics dashboard that shows me click rates for any link I’ve tweeted. Right now I have to look at separate stats for bit.ly, ow.ly, Buffer and alex.loves. [EOM]

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