January 20th, 2010 — 9:00am
The twentieth idea for my 365 social ideas is to combine the ideas of interest group websites like Meetup.com with location-aware services like Foursquare or Gowalla: Allow people with the same interests as you to see where you are available for talking about this interest. For instance, it is far more useful to know, that one of your friends, acquaintances or a stranger is at some place nearby and willing to talk about needle point with you, than just knowing where one of your friends is without actually having anything to use that information for.
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January 19th, 2010 — 9:00am
The nineteenth idea for my 365 social ideas is another Twitter idea – about being able to be a DJ over twitter. It could be done so simple, and actually @kim_bach gave me the idea and somewhat started it himself. I will however expand a little on the idea.
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January 18th, 2010 — 9:00am
The eighteenth idea for my 365 social ideas is a social web principle, but it is not new in any way. It is just another voice in the choir of web enthusiasts screaming for open data. However, most people scream at public institutions all over the world to open up their data for their citizens to play around with. I would however like to extend this plea to corporations as well: if you have data, don’t know what to do with it and are allowed to share it, then please share it. Trust me, you’ll end up the winner in the long run, eventhough you’re giving assets away for free.
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January 17th, 2010 — 9:00am
The seventeenth idea for my 365 social ideas is an idea for using the genereal need for casual gaming to solve important tasks: Helping via Gaming. It could be as simple as building dictionaries (for instance via the open dictionary projects initiated by OpenOffice or via Wiktionary), or assisting book scannings (make reCaptcha into a game) or some larger tasks assisting human mankind.
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January 16th, 2010 — 9:00am
The sixteenth idea for my 365 social ideas is an idea for a technical tool to assist everyone in getting the credit they deserve and the loyalty they can expect: a copy-paste injection script. It is the very same idea that tynt.com has “created”, but they keep the technology (how simple it may be) to themselves and have even filed for a patent.
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January 15th, 2010 — 9:00am
The fifteenth idea for my 365 social ideas is about bringing classic games to Twitter in a quite simple, straight-forward way. The same mechanic can be used for simple games like Rock-Paper-Scissor or more complex turn-based board games like Monopoly, Chess or similar.
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January 14th, 2010 — 9:00am
The fourteenth idea for my 365 social ideas is a somewhat silly little gadget website idea, but none-the-less an idea, that I would like to share with you all: a service, that tells you when it is your next round birthday in all time units, that you could think of. Why did I come up with this idea, you might ask? Because I some time ago found out, that I missed my 10,000 birthday (that is the 10,000th day since my birth), which occurs when you are 27 years and 138 days (or 139 days depending on leap years).
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January 13th, 2010 — 9:00am
The thirteenth idea for my 365 social ideas is about adding social connectivity to console games. But not straightforwardly, as in asking the developer of the Assassins Creed 3 to automatically tweet when you get a trophy on your PS3 (this will probably come soon, but is pretty boring). No, it should be possible to do some form of ping/trackback system, in which all games can “ping” your progress to any gaming progress ping recipients. And what happens with this ping is then out of the hands of the actual game. One obvious game progress ping recipient is a twitter bridge, that will tweet it as explained, but by building such a general system, it can be used for anything anyone else can think of, because you simply build a new website, that can receive pings and ask users to enter the url of your website in your game console’s settings.
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January 12th, 2010 — 9:00am
The twelfth idea for my 365 social ideas is about Google Wave: Create a wave actor (a robot), that will create a nice, static, easily-printable, exportable view of the wave in it’s current state. Swell Waves are perfect, stable waves – and Swell Wave is thus a stable (but static) version of Google Wave
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January 11th, 2010 — 9:00am
The eleventh idea for my 365 social ideas is another mobile application: An application relaying current position of users to services requiring them. The business model is, that lot’s of websites, competitions and campaigns would like to be able to track their users somehow for some purpose, but if it is just a small campaign or just a funny little gimmick, no-one would bother first making 5 different mobile applications for the different mobile platforms. So instead, they urge their user to download this Coordinate Proxy application from their respective app store, which is free, and then they enter the campaign name (and maybe password if closed) and now they can start relaying information about where they are to the service provider.
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