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.
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).
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.
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
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.
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 nineth idea for my 365 social ideas is another social web principle, that I would like to introduce: Allow your users to comment on everything, everywhere. And this goes double for the corporate stuff, that almost never is “commentable”.
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.
The seventh idea for my 365 social ideas is a community website idea: Create an online forum to share ideas for mobile applications. Some ideas cost money to buy, some ideas earn you money if you implement, some are completely free for the fun of it. It should be a site, that in most ways were based on trust, and it needn’t in itself facilitate the exchange of money, but should build trustworthy relationships between owners of ideas and creators of apps.
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.