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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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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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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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The tenth idea for my 365 social ideas is a site for mashing up Youtube-videos, playing with them across media etc. It could be done as simple as a website with a youtube player and a search field (with results). Then, when you have a video, that you like, you drag it onto your timeline, say maybe from 00:15 to 2:25 of video X, and 00:34 to 00:46 of video Y, and then you have created a new video 2 minutes and 22 seconds long.

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The eighth idea for my 365 social ideas is the first mobile app to appear here: The Appcelerator (okay, I admit, I am not good to come up with names for stuff). It is a very simple app, that will combine two of the main features of modern smartphones: accelerometer and GPS-tracking, and the result is a fun game about dominating the largest area with your phones acceleration, altitude or speed.

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The sixth idea for my 365 social ideas is more about social web principles than an actual idea. And then again, it is an idea to establish a new code of conduct and standards for a Password-friendly Website Certificate. “Certificate” should be taken lightly, as it is merely two very simple question for website owners to answer: Do you really need to ask users for a password? And if you do, do you then salt my password and then one-way encrypt it before storing it anywhere? The first is of course the better, but the latter is necessary if you do actually ask me for a password.

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The fifth idea for my 365 Social Ideas is a Twitter- and Wikipedia-mashup idea (and some maps): Find out who’s talking about what on Twitter through Wikipedia categories. There are many sites for tracking Twitter trends , but they all require that you know what you’re looking for (or where you’re looking for it geographically). But what if you simply wanted to know what movies people are tweeting about? Or what about bands, musicians, flowers, four-legged mammals, financial institutions, politicians from Guadelupe or any other arbitrarily broad or narrow category of items?

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The fourth idea for my 365 social ideas is yet another service for combining your online profiles – but in a new unobtrusive way. The idea is to let you use social media the way that you do currently but expand what you do in one place to other places. Instead of every social site you use need to integrate with all the others you simply integrate all your social profiles with one new service, the Social Subway (working secretly below the surface), and it will automatically connect any of your actions with other relevant sites.

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The third idea for my 365 social ideas is location-based as well as crowd-sourced/user contribution-based. The idea is to create an audio-only GPS navigation software. Most modern mobile phones and PDA’s contain a GPS tracker and many of them contain built-in GPS navigation software or have it available over data traffic (e.g. Google Maps). However, all of these require for the most part, that you look on the screen to fully understand where to go. Most use basic audio commands like “Turn left in 200 meters”, but such commands are very imprecise and frankly quite useless when navigating in cities with many and narrow streets.

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The very first idea for my 365 social ideas is Twitter-based. The idea actually originated some time ago, when I started using TweetDeck. The idea was to create an online service for creating and maintaining friend lists (unfortunately TweetDeck can neither import nor export lists in an open way AFAIK, but if). The idea has since expanded to the built-in Twitter Lists, which do have a public API which actually made this original idea further interesting.

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