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I happened to come upon a novel idea A derivative idea. Not that this takes away anything from the service. Most ideas and successful implementations aren't of
by naner 16y ago
I happened to come upon a novel idea
A derivative idea. Not that this takes away anything from the service. Most ideas and successful implementations aren't of the kind we've never seen before.
- AlexMuir 16y agoThis is a novel idea. Storing contact details for concurrent people and presenting them to each other in a randomised way. I've not seen this anywhere using telephone numbers, skype, email addresses - it's novel. Chatroulette connects people directly through its own servers, Facetime is one-to-one video chat. This is something that bridges those two in a simple way.
- kneath 16y agoSince we're being pedantic... What the human race perceives as creativity is largely mashup of what others have done in a new way. Mozart? Derivative of music played by instruments. Van Gogh? Derivative of people painting on canvases. Once you start being too picky about what an idea is, you start to lose sight of what makes the idea awesome or why creation is so much fun in the first place. Highly relevant to this: http://www.everythingisaremix.info/ http://www.everythingisaremix.info/
- jessriedel 16y agoSurely we can draw a distinction between chatroulette and facelette in terms of originality.
- hartror 16y agoEverything has degrees of originality. Google didn't invent the search engine but they came up with a great way to monetise it (oh and some algorithm too).
- 7402 16y agoAs I once said, "Originality is the art of concealing your sources."
- aaronbrethorst 16y agoAs I [1] once said, "originality is the art of obfuscating your sources" [1] http://www.quotesdaddy.com/quote/1202672/benjamin-franklin/originality-is-the-art-of-concealing-your-sources http://www.quotesdaddy.com/quote/1202672/benjamin-franklin/o...