#idea for a twitter bot: snarky sarcastic favstar

“Looks like 5 people ★ed your tweet. That’s, like, the most anyone’s ever ★ed one of your tweets. IT’S DOWNHILL ALL THE WAY FROM HERE”

“Congratulations on your 10★ tweet. Bet you feel real big about that”

“Your tweet got to 15★! Here’s an alternate version of your profile photo with a medal on.”

“20★ for a tweet with that many spelling mistakes? You people are idiots”

“Congratulations, you got to 50★! Get to 100★ and I may decide not to kill this adorable puppy”

“100 PEOPLE CLICKED A ★ SHAPED BUTTON AND NOW I AM REMINDING YOU OF THAT FACT”

“Congratulations, your 250★ tweet has inflated your ego sufficiently to enter the upper atmosphere!”

“500★? How much did that cost you?”

“Who do you think you are with your 1000★ tweet, Obama?”

“1,000,000,000★ are there even enough people in the world for that to be a thing”

#idea: a microformat for download signatures/checksums, allowing browsers to automatically verify files without people having to go into the terminal and use shasum or gpg --verify

Idea for focus-maintaining anti-rabbit-warren UI: “current task” bar, simple user-editable text field present on all screens, subdued but not inconspicuous, persistent reminder of current short-term goal.

Should be somewhere out of the way but accessible at a glance, i.e. only eye movement required to see what it is. Key combo to instantly clear and focus for editing.

Archiving some of my old email, I find this blast from the recent past (March 2012) in Mac app idea form:

Postflow: A tool for social media power-users. Interactively create automator-like 'postflows' that allow you to quickly and effectively post the same bit of content to lots of different social networks.

With useful features, such as:

• Real-time execution and editing: Work through a postflow step by step, changing it and the content you're posting as you go along.
• Floating Results window that displays text and links to everything you've posted so far in the flow. Automatically shorterns URLS.
• Preset Variables: Set a list of commonly used items e.g. your URL, @twitter_name, other social network profile page URL, etc.
• Fully automated postflows (?): Set up postflows that take one input and does everything else by it's self.
• Extensive library of posting actions
• Quick Post UI: For small updates that still need to go out to lots of people. Forego some of the fine-grained control of a full postflow for sheer speedyness.
• Ability to add other networks through a plugin creator (?) will work provided basic API types are supported.
• Automated admin work: Change profile photo, description, details on multiple networks simultaneously.

The Quick Post utility by it's self could be given away as a free sampler of the more advanced full Postflow — gives people the 'post to lots of networks intelligently' ability, but not the advanced features or customisation

Hmm, that sounds suspiciously like a certain Yahoo Pipes clone I’m working on…

#idea: use Chernoff Faces to encode PGP key fingerprints. They could be placed unobtrusively on business cards or websites and in email clients, enabling quick, accessible comparison.

Also found this excellent shot of Jovian Salak, casually geographing:

Which reminds me, I still want to make the “Geographers” mock TV series intro.

#idea: text-based starcraft type game using Cuneiform unicode chars unicode.org/charts/PDF/U12000.pdf

𒁏  𒀸                   𒅩 
                       𒆋  
                         𒆆
  𒄡             𒀸     𒅴
           𒀺
 𒈙      𒆁
          𒍦    
              𒅳
 𒍖                    𒊹 

I’m beginning to think that I want to store two broad categories of content on my #indieweb site, content which is defined by the time it occurred/is published and content which is primarily defined by some other attribute.

Examples of content defined by time, which at the moment I’m using notes for:

• short, tweet-like notes
• (often) ideas
• checkins
• bits of personal data like #steps, #rubbish, sleep or other quantified self-type things
• replies
• photos
• some longer written pieces
• assorted other location data e.g. journeys, runs, walks

Examples of content primarily defined by things other than time:

• essay-like articles
• experiments and tools
• venues
• profile data
• contacts/people — although this is a tricky one which requires further experimentation

#taproot UI #idea: service which finds the average number of characters/words/lines in a note and automatically makes the “new note” box that size. Potential extension: Make it one line bigger/smaller to encourage longer/shorter writing.

#idea for an augmented sense useful for musicians: add the ability to hear whether or not a note is in tune. Not sure how best to implement this — some sort of kinetic feedback system would be the most straightforward, but doesn’t seem true to it’s purpose in the same way that the belt buzzing north does.

How about a small speaker on the shoulder/in a hat which plays a very quiet A 440hz — then use the beats to judge whether or not the note is in tune.

Possible problems: might only work adequately for A and related notes (E, maybe D), might be irritating to have a constant sound — like artificial tinnitus. Also irritating if notes which the wearer doesn’t control are slightly out of tune! Probably the most simple solution is to allow the sound to be toggled quickly and easily.

Application of #geo notes or similar: reminding people to contact people in areas they don't go to often. Potential flow:

• I create an event with a location
• my software searches my contacts for people in this area
• a list of those contacts are presented in a non modal fashion
• If I can't remember where I met the person, hovering on them shows date and location of when I added them to my contacts

Idea: I set up a service where you pay $50 for a domain name and web hosting with statusnet installed.

indieweb proposal: whenever people get excited about some new silo, we take the best parts and hack together an indie implementation using our existing websites and content.