Developing eWrite

Skipped a week last week, not enough ideas floating around the noggin.

I planned to do 4 weeks of Friday invention ideas. Might keep going, but less frequently, maybe I’ve used up all the ideas floating around my head already.. thought there’d be more.

• A version of Google which shows you the least relevant results for your search.
• A video search that allows you to capture 10 second a video of a video your watching with your phone, send it to some web service and it will tell you the film its from.
• An extension for Thunderbird that will tell you if you have mail from a particular person. Ideal if you don’t check your mail purposely to be productive but you want to be interrupted when you get a mail from a specific person.
• Google Reader allows you to subscribe to the same RSS feed over and over again. It would be handy if it told you that you are already subscribed.

I often have ideas that would might make useful web apps, I’m sure I’m not the only one. Rather than write them down somewhere and loose them I’m going to write them on this blog. Perhaps there would be someone else that could run with some of them.

I’ll keep this going each Friday for the next 4 weeks or so, to see if I can consistently come up with ideas. If anyone would like to take any of these ideas and run with them go ahead, a comment on the blog would be cool too though. Also, if I happen to have an idea that’s already out there, feel free to give out to me

Some loose ideas this week, mostly related to Google Reader:

• It would be handy to have the ability to post comments on a users blog while still inside Google Reader, rather than having to go to the users site to post comments.
• The ability to read blog comments within Google Reader too rather than heading to the site to read them.
• I comment on other blogs and other item such as Forums. It would be cool to have some method of storing all the messages I’ve posted in various places.
• Google Reader should be able to filter out the same story if it appears in multiple feeds, it can be annoying seeing the same iPhone story again and again.

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