• Customer goes online (minimal website interface, good but not limited to iPhones) tells point A (where he is), point B (where he wants to be) and optionally, when (defaults to as soon as possible)
• customer receives total price, pays right away
• customer receives an sms telling the 5 min before van arrives (the driver has to inform the system, more on that later)
• customer picks the van, is told when it arrives to point B
• customer receives an email asking to rate the experience.

Price fluctuates based on van availability on the area a or b, traffic, reputation.
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The van is part of a club. It needs:

• initial checkup
• app installation fee (you sell)
• monthly fee (comm costs)

The app can be a simple beep with gps.
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The higher the ratings:

• lower the monthly fee
• better offers (daily commute pool, fixed A, B points)

The driver doesn’t have to negotiate payment or service. The system deals with it and offers customers from the nearest places (route optimization). The driver gets the fare, a cut going to the system (70-30?)
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Problems:

• legislation, lobbies
• quality of service
• do we count start or end time? End time is better, but we need to take traffic into account

Opportunities:

• airports, malls, any fixed point b
• daily commutes: customer pays monthly and can make minor adjustments (free prior 24h). You’re competing with cars!!!
• if overall cost is cheaper than car, with same benefits (control of a to b), market it as the green solution, find government grants

• Sos! Tokyo metro explorers: The Next
• Freedom 2, 3
• Tokyo Majin
• Nerima Daikon Brothers
• Mega Zone 23
• Panda-z: The Robonimation
• Kite Liberator
• Speed Grapher
• Simoun
• My-Otome
• Flag
• Glass Fleet
• Strawberry Marshmallow
• Vermilion Pleasure Night
• Birdy Decode
• Den-Noh Coil
• Gunbuster 2
• Nodame Cantabile
• Mushishi
• 009-1
• The Wings of Rean
• Pucca

Mangas to get

• Noise
• Once Upon a Glashima
• Neon Genesis Evangelion: Angelic Days
• Dolis

To watch

• Red Garden
• Blood+

To talk about

• Shingu: Secret of Stellar Wars
• Chevalier d’Eon
• Gankutsuou: the Count of Monte Cristo
• Eureka Seven
• The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
• Lucky Star
• Welcome to NHK

• Barrack Slideshow
• Cash Register
• Featured Content Slider
• Ajax Slideshow
• Javascript Crossfader
• Ajax Demos, Editor
• Ajax Demos, FishEye
• FlickrMenu
• Styled Form Controls
• FreeStyle Menus
• JQuery Accordion
• JQuery ToolTip
• mcDropdown jQuery Plug-in
• LightBox JS
• JQuery News Ticker
• Live Thumbnail
• Magazine Layout
• Mollio Templates
• S5 Slideshow
• Slideshow
• Table Sorting
• Revolver Fast Image Rotation Engine
• Reflection JS
• Moving Title
• Mouse Sensitive

I gottabe more strict… Most of the effects are cross-browser, but from now on I’ll only collect jquery effects. make up your mind, heh?

• a password-protected remote folder
• a locked script file that:

• automatically deletes 6th file, per date
• creates, from the files uploaded, a rss feed with enclosures (podcast)

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Usage: To publish
distribute the FTP account to members, to upload with the app of their choosing:

• music files
• QuickTime video files
• PDFs

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Usage: To view
Users subscribe to the podcast, ensuring they’ll download the files before self-cleaning.
The password reduces the chance of sending the link away to friend-of-a-friend or spydering.
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Results
Private, few-to-few multimidia channel.
Make sure to only invite friends with similar tastes.

1. click and hold home button opens camera app.
   • overrides password protection
   • respects current UI guidelines
2. release home button shoots picture.
   • picture viewing respects password protection
3. optional: automatic photo sync
4. optional: metadata editing (i can write, eh?)
   • add title
   • add description
   • add tags… er, keywords
   • add rating

those are the software-only mods I think of that can make iphone a badass picture-taking machine.
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original post here.

sbp, this one.

Hi, first of all I’m a happy cosmopod customer… Thanks for the good work.
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Below, some suggestions… The idea is to use cosmopod as a click-now/watch-later kind of thing, so I can watch what my friends are talking but keep my focus at work.

1. automate the settings: convert all files as tv show, "cosmopod". That way I can subscribe to the tv show on my iphone, and have always the latest ones after I sync. Movie files - the current default - have to be transferred manually, no good.
2. recognize embedded youtube videos, also. nowadays I need to click the embedded file, then pause the original youtube video, click the cosmopod button, then close the window.
3. can you recognize youtube videos on google reader too? plz?
4. add the original youtube URL to the comments, in case I want to retrace my steps.

I take cosmopod as a video version of instapaper… as instapaper collects texts to read later, my goal is to use cosmopod to watch all collected videos in a row, commuting back from work. Any automated step to help me create this workflow, the better.

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I hope it becomes the youtube of magazines, I’d love to read my mangas online.

Skype/Gizmo Project (voip)

Remember Safari’s safe browsing feature announcement? With shopping for xmas as an euphemism for surfing for porn? There you have it. When Apple’s say they want to “protect the network from malicious code”, they actually mean preventing voip from transforming network carriers into dumb pipes.
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kudos if apple can afford to get money from both ends, but that means not everything they do is for my best interests as a consumer. and if AT&T has employees planning their goals 24/7, we the grassroot community gotta think of ourselves too, otherwise noone will (everyone, clapping: dumb pipes! dumb pipes!).
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bonus points for address book/contacts integration: add a voip field under my contacts, so I can keep my list integrated.

Twitter (microblogging)

Ev Williams got it right, again. As email and google maps became sine-qua-non for smartphones, twitter will soon follow. Damn, how addictive it is, and how my twitter habits drained this blog away.
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bonus points if @username and direct messages interface emulates iPhone’s SMS, prompting me immediately. Think about it: it’s global SMS with none of the fees.

PDF reader/manager

iPhone’s built-in PDF reader is great, but there’s no way to access it if not from email attachments, which means you have to be connected and download each one individually.
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iTunes can subscribe to PDF podcasts so I thought iPhone could sync to it - as it does with video and audio - but apple’s sheer stupidity or some middle-aged-suit-on-cokeâ„¢ prevented it somehow.
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bonus points for torrents sync integration, send to a friend, and bookmarking/notes abilities.

Postcard it to a friend

Yes it’s true I can simply email pictures to my friends, but wouldn’t it be nice to have the ability to take a picture, write a note and send it as a print postcard to a chosen friend? Well, my address book has my contact’s address already… Well, someone thought of that. I can’t wait.
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bonus points for overseas delivery (I want to keep in touch with my brazilian family) and sleek - as in not-hallmark-like - templates. ah, and group contacts, good for networking and holiday events.

Sandy/Remember the milk/Basecamp App (GTD)

Hear apple’s notes/task list fiasco: mac’s notes/tasks sync to iphone - but as an email to myself, uneditable - while mac’s stickies and iphone’s notes sync with noone. at all. All the while I’m still waiting for a good GTD solution to carry around.
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Values of n, Remember the milk and 37 Signals seem to do a good job, online. I need an offline version of that to edit with my heart’s content.
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bonus points to whoever makes it faster, and easier. there’s a power law here, so the winner takes all.

Smart Camera Fix

I told about it before but I don’t mind repeating: click&hold home button, open camera. release, shoot. thank you.

Video Camera

Be it the lack of seamless experience (if you can’t edit and upload to youtube/podcast, why offer something incomplete?), lack of time or the lack of a revenue stream attached to it, Apple decided not to offer video recording on iPhone. But iPhone hackers everywhere proved you can record video, yes, with proof-of-concept projects ranging from 10 to 30fps. so why not?
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bonus points for basic editing features - I’m not talking about video editing, but basic favorites and rejected, tags and title, and iMovie integration.

AIR

I’m not talking about Macbook Air, but Adobe Integrated Runtime. bonus points for a dedicated iphone screen for the sandboxed applications.

Semacode Reader

Semacode is an open system 2D barcode that provides a link between physical objects and the Internet. You point and shoot the barcode, the system converts it into data and with iPhone’s integrated interface - maps, mail, contacts and web - there you go: from print to action.
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bonus points for link type management: maybe you want the maps links to open some other app, other than what apple provides you. and if you create new apps, you can always add a plugin to it.
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Imagine, you see a poster on the street, that invites you to talk to a representative: you point and click the semacode, that jumps to a skype call. from print to action, with no greedy middle man to spoil the fun: now that’s the future I want to live in.

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I’m outsourcing my 33yo birthday party to their gig, this Saturday. Easier to clean, heh? Click if you around NYC and wanna know address.

Taking Pictures

Nowadays, in order to take a picture on the iPhone, you need to:

1. click home
2. drag slider
3. type passcode
4. click home again
5. click the camera icon
6. point and shoot

it’s a lot of steps for just one picture… why not simplify it? Like this:

1. click and hold the home button, opens camera (bypassing passcode entirely)
2. release the home button, takes picture

Since the home button is a physical one, I can even set the camera on my pocket yet, and take a picture right after i take it off.

Wireless Sync

Each iPhone/iPod is paired with a specific machine already, so why not allow wireless sync? It’s not that I need to set permissions for each sync, huh? even the new zunes have it!
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Ah, allow me to automatically sync my pictures to iphoto, and even edit name, description, tags and events.

Proximity Behaviors

My cellphone is always with me, and it’s considered a personal thing: in fact, we can say that my cellphone reveals my presence to machines around me. iPhone has bluetooth, so it would be nice to control my computer based on my proximity behaviors, like:

• Away from my computer
  • lock screensaver
  • switch to guest account after 5 minutes
  • set my iChat status to away
  • take an automatic snapshot if keyboard is used, email me right away (nah, that’s the paranoid in me. but allow us to create & share automator workflows)
• Back to my computer
  • unlock scrensaver
  • set iChat status to available (or Current iTunes Song, if that’s the case)
  • play song (welcome home, master!)
• Picking up calls
  • Pause iTunes, QuickTime, FrontRow
  • Open Address Book Contact notes (Edit Mode)
• Ending calls
  • Resume iTunes, QuickTime, FrontRow

Security

speaking of it, there’s a security breach under passcode settings. The system should ask for my passcode before I change the Auto-Lock. Without it, someone can steal my iPhone and change the settings before the auto-lock sets in, invalidating it.

Limit my choices

FreshDirect should propose a questionnaire to limit my choices by:

• demographic: age, gender, location.. the usual marketing shenenigans.
• procedence: proximity, ban/preference on specific countries/companies to effect political change
• quality: organic, fair trade
• physical properties: ban/adoption of specific ingredients/materials like MSG, animal source, kosher, calorie intake, etc.

Lifestyleism

Allow me to display my choices in a public profile, so I can brag about my preferences. In this lifestyle-driven society we live in, people are very aware of all concepts they should follow or avoid, it’s just hard to actually keep track of all of it. Automate it for us and we’ll be more than willing to return the favor.

All politics are local

Heck, even allow me to create or join groups to keep me up-to-date on political preferences. Let existing organizations mobilize their base: Animal rights, gay rights, free trade watchdogs, company watchdogs… Allow them to edit my choices to some extent, and let me brag about my commitment to the cause too.

Hand-Eye Coordination

After squeezing all the choices to manageable chunks, allow me to view the products I want to buy. Allow companies to directly edit their products’ image galleries. Make them pay for that. Aside the initial programming work, it’s less work and more money for you.
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related bokardo.com discuss: Did the Long Tail Beget Social Design?

Dear Rich People,
We, the poor, feel it’s time you knew the truth. We grow weary of the way you look at us, and you’re getting to be a real pain to live with. SO here’s the truth, direct from headquarters: We are poor because we spend every last dollar on building and maintaining an opulent underground paradise, a world so breathtaking it would humble you into a coma. We din’t mention it before-we thought that would be tacky-but we’re too fed up to care about your feelings.
Farewell, for now we step into our shimmering crystal elevators, never to return. And you’re not invited.
Regretfully, The Poor.