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* Carpool coordination. This problem turned into our next homework assignment for my collaborative work class. I'm thinking of something that lets each team m

by warwick 17y ago

* Carpool coordination. This problem turned into our next homework assignment for my collaborative work class. I'm thinking of something that lets each team member mark down their home, adjust it on a per-day basis if they'll be somewhere else, mark down which days they can drive, and plot optimal routes. Extra points for a mobile app that can read my GPS coordinates and tell me where to go. More points if it balances driving responsibilities well enough that nobody feels taken advantage of. * Too many notifications. I have to login to a half dozen different systems to keep up on what's happening. That's too much. There are notifications I just want to see, some I want to add to my todo list, some to my calendar, some I don't want to see again. A single-app solution for all of this would be brilliant. Email is too heavy: I want notifications, not correspondence. Bonus points if it's on my mobile. * Some way to extract the most valuable points out of a meeting. A possible solution might be a 'real time digg' that lets people vote speakers up and down when they agree or disagree with their point. Correlate that with a copy of the transcript and emphasize sections with higher scores. Possibly two-dimensional voting for 'We need to remember this' and 'I agree with this'.

adrianwaj 17y ago
A twitter to email service, and when you unsubscribe to a twitter account giving notifications, it unsubscribes you from the underlying emails. It can be a new service not built on Twitter, say on identi.ca or friendfeed. There'd be an API, so parties sending out emails can build into the service with a pre-established userbase. Do you want to build it? (afterward ... with relationships established with businesses.. can follow through into my idea http://bit.ly/1MscB3 http://bit.ly/1MscB3)
- warwick 17y ago
  I think you're looking at this backwards. Instead of an API, to start you allow users to send or forward their notification emails to some unique email address that's their feed. RSS notifications are handled similarly by the user subscribing to their feeds within the app. Tie into the existing notification mechanisms instead of asking the world to change just for you. Given the amount of reaction this comment thread got, I'm considering hacking out a prototype and seeing if it helps alleviate the problem. That being said, I've already got far too much on my plate. I don't think you'd ever come up with this idea if you were the kind of person who had time to kill checking their notifications.
  - adrianwaj 17y ago
    A couple of things, for your interest: rssfriends.com provides feeds for twitter email notifications, that you can then turn off. I'm possibly willing to spend $4000 on this, or something like it, which I'll build the front-end - depending on my work schedule. The other side of the coin is information you'd like from firms, but are not getting, rather than vice versa - hence the friendfeed for business information. (edit: the other aspect is having the end user be able to respond to some type of company information, in a type of Google Wave, so another response can be made)
    - warwick 17y ago
      I might hack together a version, I might not. Don't worry about that. If you're this interested, I'd encourage you to take the idea and run with it.
      - adrianwaj 17y ago
        If you need a hand - drop me a line.
terpua 17y ago
The notifications idea is very useful. I can immediately see a need for merging twitter, facebook, gcal, gmail and gdocs into one menubar/systray app. Even a simple web app using tornado would already be useful. I'm surprised no one has done this?
- tcarnell 17y ago
  ...I'm working on this now! I am planning to add a feature to Femtoo.com (http://www.femtoo.com http://www.femtoo.com) so that users can drop a 'track this page' link onto their site (blog etc) and be notified of changes... ...should be done by the weekend...
nreece 17y ago
>> Too many notifications What sort of notifications? Please share some examples.
- mcav 17y ago
  E-mail, twitter, calendar invitations, meeting notifications, facebook messages, linkedin, text messages, voicemail, finance-related alerts, sports scores...
- warwick 17y ago
  In addition to the ones that were already mentioned, I also care about: Class announcements (currently emailed to me) Reminders from my calendar (currently email or rss'd) New posts from blogs I follow (currently RSS) Notification of shared document changes (currently login to each service to check) Private messages on forums (currently emailed)
taitems 17y ago
I don't actually use FriendFeed, but isn't that what it wanted to achieve re:notifications?
- terpua 17y ago
  No, it wanted to achieve conversations.
viraptor 17y ago
#2 - I believe mozilla is working on it already - http://labs.mozilla.com/raindrop http://labs.mozilla.com/raindrop
tcarnell 17y ago
Point 2 - you could try to see if Femtoo.com (http://www.femtoo.com http://www.femtoo.com) (Internet tracking and notifications) will help solve your problem. I built it with the intention of 'reducing' the amount of correspondance, and to only notify you of something that you exactly want.

by warwick 17y ago

adrianwaj 17y ago

A twitter to email service, and when you unsubscribe to a twitter account giving notifications, it unsubscribes you from the underlying emails. It can be a new service not built on Twitter, say on identi.ca or friendfeed. There'd be an API, so parties sending out emails can build into the service with a pre-established userbase. Do you want to build it? (afterward ... with relationships established with businesses.. can follow through into my idea http://bit.ly/1MscB3 http://bit.ly/1MscB3)

warwick 17y ago
I think you're looking at this backwards. Instead of an API, to start you allow users to send or forward their notification emails to some unique email address that's their feed. RSS notifications are handled similarly by the user subscribing to their feeds within the app. Tie into the existing notification mechanisms instead of asking the world to change just for you. Given the amount of reaction this comment thread got, I'm considering hacking out a prototype and seeing if it helps alleviate the problem. That being said, I've already got far too much on my plate. I don't think you'd ever come up with this idea if you were the kind of person who had time to kill checking their notifications.
- adrianwaj 17y ago
  A couple of things, for your interest: rssfriends.com provides feeds for twitter email notifications, that you can then turn off. I'm possibly willing to spend $4000 on this, or something like it, which I'll build the front-end - depending on my work schedule. The other side of the coin is information you'd like from firms, but are not getting, rather than vice versa - hence the friendfeed for business information. (edit: the other aspect is having the end user be able to respond to some type of company information, in a type of Google Wave, so another response can be made)
  - warwick 17y ago
    I might hack together a version, I might not. Don't worry about that. If you're this interested, I'd encourage you to take the idea and run with it.
    - adrianwaj 17y ago
      If you need a hand - drop me a line.

terpua 17y ago

The notifications idea is very useful. I can immediately see a need for merging twitter, facebook, gcal, gmail and gdocs into one menubar/systray app. Even a simple web app using tornado would already be useful. I'm surprised no one has done this?

tcarnell 17y ago
...I'm working on this now! I am planning to add a feature to Femtoo.com (http://www.femtoo.com http://www.femtoo.com) so that users can drop a 'track this page' link onto their site (blog etc) and be notified of changes... ...should be done by the weekend...

nreece 17y ago

>> Too many notifications What sort of notifications? Please share some examples.

mcav 17y ago
E-mail, twitter, calendar invitations, meeting notifications, facebook messages, linkedin, text messages, voicemail, finance-related alerts, sports scores...
warwick 17y ago
In addition to the ones that were already mentioned, I also care about: Class announcements (currently emailed to me) Reminders from my calendar (currently email or rss'd) New posts from blogs I follow (currently RSS) Notification of shared document changes (currently login to each service to check) Private messages on forums (currently emailed)

taitems 17y ago

I don't actually use FriendFeed, but isn't that what it wanted to achieve re:notifications?

terpua 17y ago
No, it wanted to achieve conversations.

viraptor 17y ago

#2 - I believe mozilla is working on it already - http://labs.mozilla.com/raindrop http://labs.mozilla.com/raindrop

tcarnell 17y ago

Point 2 - you could try to see if Femtoo.com (http://www.femtoo.com http://www.femtoo.com) (Internet tracking and notifications) will help solve your problem. I built it with the intention of 'reducing' the amount of correspondance, and to only notify you of something that you exactly want.