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im sorry, i love you all, but this list is filled with some really bad stuff. After reading more thoroughly I'm assuming a lot of it is just people messing aro

im sorry, i love you all, but this list is filled with some really bad stuff. After reading more thoroughly I'm assuming a lot of it is just people messing around Such as: 100% return lottery. pandora for chatroulette. Wordpress.com 20 years more advanced, for video blogging. Public Takeover - Use capitalism to control the ills of capitalism, one share at a time. Use crowdsourcing and social network effects to take over public companies by linking all socially-responsible minority shareholders. *Dog Walking 2.0 - potential acquirer 37 signals?

coryl 17y ago
Don't you know that dog walking is a big business?
- jasonlbaptiste 17y ago
  oh it actually is. go read the rest of the pitch. it's obviously a spoof.
- mixmax 17y ago
  Some years ago I had an office in an incubator, and me and a guy from another company had a competition on who could come up with the most ridiculous yet somewhat believable pitch. He won with this: Dogwalking is big business - there are more rich people with dogs than you would dare dream of, and they all need to have their dogs walked. On the other end of the leash there are social welfare clients that want more money from the state - and if you have a dog you get a monthly allowance to buy dog-stuff and food. So the ingenious business proposition was to make money by walking rich people's dogs, and renting them out to welfare clients that only need a dog for half an hour to prove that they do indeed have a dog that they can claim dog-welfare money for. Absolute genius I tell you!.
  - nandemo 17y ago
    Wait, do social welfare "clients" really get money for dog stuff? Where is that?
    - mixmax 17y ago
      They did around 8 years ago, I don't know whether they still do. It's Denmark.
- bricestacey 17y ago
  I don't know about "big business" but I could imagine a startup that made it easier for dog owners to find a person to walk their dog. In Boston, most people charge $15-30 a walk depending on length and whether it's a group or individual, so money could be made by handling transactions and charging a small fee. Would add value by providing customer reviews and rankings.
JayNeely 17y ago
"Wordpress.com 20 years more advanced, for video blogging" is one of mine. I'd love to hear critiques of it. I realize the "pitch" is bad, but did you read any of the other sections?; I'm trying to convey that it's not just a hosted platform for video blogging, but that there's some technological innovation involved as well.
- jasonlbaptiste 17y ago
  you could build something very advanced (theme wise) and the back end coding on top of wordpress. If it worked well and I were a videoblogger, id pay for it.
  - JayNeely 17y ago
    That's not a bad WordPress theme idea. But that's not at all what I'm suggesting, because... That doesn't improve the video player interface at all. That doesn't make metadata for videos any better. That doesn't provide any improvements in the ability to remix video. That doesn't offer any advantages for having multiple video bloggers on the same platform. That doesn't add any interactivity to video. I feel like I'm saying, "There's a ton of room for innovation and additions to the paradigm of web-based video viewing", and you're saying: "sooo... a better theme, then?"
    - nishantmodak 17y ago
      If you believe in the idea, just go ahead and build it. I have seen a couple of times that the idea did not make any 'sense' to me during ideation stage, but when was presented with a working application - I just 'saw' it as needed! For certain ideas, the way they are executed matters a lot.
- dnsworks 17y ago
  The problem with video blogging is that it doesn't have the same mass appeal as text blogging. As uncomfortable as people are with their grammatical abilities, they still blog, constantly, no matter how much we hope they wouldn't. As for video blogging, the barrier to entry is a lot higher, and self-consciousness about "public" speaking and appearance severely stifle the potential "market".
tocomment 17y ago
Ive always wanted to try that public takeover idea. It actually sounds plausible right?
- jasonlbaptiste 17y ago
  not at all.
  - tocomment 17y ago
    Why not? What obstacles do you see?
    - jasonlbaptiste 17y ago
      Capitalism.
DaniFong 17y ago
Pandora for chat roulette is a bad idea? How can a recommendation engine for people possibly be worse than random?
- dzlobin 17y ago
  Its not worse, it's just a silly idea that isn't worth the time needed to make it
  - DaniFong 17y ago
    You'll live to be embarrassed by that; this is actually going to be built. I've heard from six people who've started working on something like it already. It's not even that hard: Facebook for the platform, directed edge for the recommendation engine, something like camarades.com / ww.com for the webcam plugin.

coryl 17y ago

Don't you know that dog walking is a big business?

jasonlbaptiste 17y ago
oh it actually is. go read the rest of the pitch. it's obviously a spoof.
mixmax 17y ago
Some years ago I had an office in an incubator, and me and a guy from another company had a competition on who could come up with the most ridiculous yet somewhat believable pitch. He won with this: Dogwalking is big business - there are more rich people with dogs than you would dare dream of, and they all need to have their dogs walked. On the other end of the leash there are social welfare clients that want more money from the state - and if you have a dog you get a monthly allowance to buy dog-stuff and food. So the ingenious business proposition was to make money by walking rich people's dogs, and renting them out to welfare clients that only need a dog for half an hour to prove that they do indeed have a dog that they can claim dog-welfare money for. Absolute genius I tell you!.
- nandemo 17y ago
  Wait, do social welfare "clients" really get money for dog stuff? Where is that?
  - mixmax 17y ago
    They did around 8 years ago, I don't know whether they still do. It's Denmark.
bricestacey 17y ago
I don't know about "big business" but I could imagine a startup that made it easier for dog owners to find a person to walk their dog. In Boston, most people charge $15-30 a walk depending on length and whether it's a group or individual, so money could be made by handling transactions and charging a small fee. Would add value by providing customer reviews and rankings.

JayNeely 17y ago

"Wordpress.com 20 years more advanced, for video blogging" is one of mine. I'd love to hear critiques of it. I realize the "pitch" is bad, but did you read any of the other sections?; I'm trying to convey that it's not just a hosted platform for video blogging, but that there's some technological innovation involved as well.

jasonlbaptiste 17y ago
you could build something very advanced (theme wise) and the back end coding on top of wordpress. If it worked well and I were a videoblogger, id pay for it.
- JayNeely 17y ago
  That's not a bad WordPress theme idea. But that's not at all what I'm suggesting, because... That doesn't improve the video player interface at all. That doesn't make metadata for videos any better. That doesn't provide any improvements in the ability to remix video. That doesn't offer any advantages for having multiple video bloggers on the same platform. That doesn't add any interactivity to video. I feel like I'm saying, "There's a ton of room for innovation and additions to the paradigm of web-based video viewing", and you're saying: "sooo... a better theme, then?"
  - nishantmodak 17y ago
    If you believe in the idea, just go ahead and build it. I have seen a couple of times that the idea did not make any 'sense' to me during ideation stage, but when was presented with a working application - I just 'saw' it as needed! For certain ideas, the way they are executed matters a lot.
dnsworks 17y ago
The problem with video blogging is that it doesn't have the same mass appeal as text blogging. As uncomfortable as people are with their grammatical abilities, they still blog, constantly, no matter how much we hope they wouldn't. As for video blogging, the barrier to entry is a lot higher, and self-consciousness about "public" speaking and appearance severely stifle the potential "market".

tocomment 17y ago

Ive always wanted to try that public takeover idea. It actually sounds plausible right?

jasonlbaptiste 17y ago
not at all.
- tocomment 17y ago
  Why not? What obstacles do you see?
  - jasonlbaptiste 17y ago
    Capitalism.

DaniFong 17y ago

Pandora for chat roulette is a bad idea? How can a recommendation engine for people possibly be worse than random?

dzlobin 17y ago
Its not worse, it's just a silly idea that isn't worth the time needed to make it
- DaniFong 17y ago
  You'll live to be embarrassed by that; this is actually going to be built. I've heard from six people who've started working on something like it already. It's not even that hard: Facebook for the platform, directed edge for the recommendation engine, something like camarades.com / ww.com for the webcam plugin.