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amichail
18,811karma·7,884submissions·February 20, 2007
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I'm an indie game developer.
My previous games include DropZap and DropZap 2 for iOS.
My latest game is DropZap World. Check it out: https://apps.apple.com/app/id1072858930
https://bsky.app/profile/dropzapworld.bsky.social https://x.com/DropZapWorld https://www.threads.net/@dropzapworld
a.michail@me.com
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"Yes, there are programming techniques to be learned, and there are tricks to help you keep a large software project on its rails. Unit testing, computational complexity, all these things are very imp…
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I certainly believe it is real. It would be nice however if computer science education and research would have more to do with this conceptual age.
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Yes, I would be interested in reading your essay/book draft. It might provide excellent motivation for this startup idea :)
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Please contact me if you might be interested in pursuing such a startup: amichail@gmail.com.
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I like it, and yes, I'm sure you can combine it with social networks to get something compelling (e.g., you can make it cheaper to send email to people who have designated you as a friend, etc.). It'…
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What are the restrictions? I somehow doubt that you can do whatever you want.
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How does this compare to Google's 20% time for your own projects?
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Any startups doing something compelling with undercover marketing?
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Jobs in academia seem to have some advantages, particularly with respect to freedom. But that really depends on where you end up: http://www.lambdassociates.org/blog/decline.htm. Moreover, your views …
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I am interested in giving people ways to track their influence on others. Forwarding Tree's URL tracking is all about that: http://groups.google.com/group/forwarding-tree/browse_thread/thread/ad99…
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What about advertising using smart mobs? A web service would allow a company to specify the logistics of the event and how much it is willing to pay. The company could also track the event in real-tim…
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I am interested in seeing what happens when you apply intentional programming to web search: http://youtube.com/watch?v=tSnnfUj1XCQ http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZZDwB4-DPXE The idea is to open up your s…
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I am interested in collective intelligence: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_intelligence. How would you build a service where thousands of people collaborative to solve a problem, create a wor…
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I think it would be interesting to provide a way to give people advice in real-time via the web. For example, you might watch a sports game on the web and give advice to individual players about what …
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I really like the photosynth idea: http://labs.live.com/photosynth.
But can we take this idea further? For example, what can we do with video? Maybe we could put together many people's videos to p…
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I'm interested in novel uses of prediction markets. For example, one can create an online dating service where people bet on whom they believe would make good couples. People might then take this …
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I am interested in getting free labor out of users in the style of the espgame.org. For more on this, see: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8246463980976635143 An obvious step would be to exte…
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I am interested in more intelligent ads. Make the ad so intelligent and interactive that people would want to play with it, just to test its boundaries. Building a better ad now reduces to coming up w…
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I'm interested in ways to make more novel startups succeed. The problem here is that the average web surfer has a very short attention span. And so it is hard for anything novel to get much traffi…
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I'm interested in showing people data that they don't normally see. I mentioned VNCCasts in another post. Another example would be to show the web traffic at a web site to everyone in real-tim…
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I'm interested in understanding people more deeply and learning from them by watching what they do and how they think. One idea that I tried is a service for broadcasting your computer screen, jus…
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I'm interested in a service for creating or inventing things in a collaborative way. For example, consider using human-based genetic algorithms to create daily news shows, perhaps in the style of …
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I'm interested in ways to make people scale. For example, one might imagine a service that allows people to construct a chatbot for themselves that they could unleash onto the net to spread their …
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This is my current startup attempt: http://forwardingtree.com.
Also see: http://groups.google.com/group/forwarding-tree. Note that personalization is just another way to control spam. One might imagin…
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Anyone looking for a partner? My email: amichail@gmail.com. If you like, we can discuss startup ideas here. In fact, this social news forum might be a good way to throw ideas around to see which ones …
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I'm actually quite happy with Google's GWT. And eclipse makes Java quite pleasant to use.