Idea #38: dydi

“dydi” (stands for ‘did you do it’) is a social activity tool + game. It’s a random activity generator for individuals and social groups. Here’s how it works,

1. The user needs to sign up with ‘dydi’ and during registration provide lots of specific inputs about interests, daily activities, passions, goals, swot analysis etc

2. User need may or may not create social groups by adding other users

3. Based on the profile details + details of others within the social group + a certain amount of randomness + calendar details of the user and others in the profile, ‘dydi’ will assign ‘specific/pointless/fun/profound/etc etc types of activities to the user or the user can ask ‘dydi’ to assign activities to others within the social group

4. Activities can be for the min/hr/day/week

5. The receiver of these activities will complete the activity, submit a summary and earn points. The points can be used by the groups or the individual user to gift goodies to one another

6. The activities could be anything and is generated by ‘dydi’. Users cannot create their own activities but can create activities for other but has to be submitted to ‘dydi’ which will schedule/assign to the intended user

Idea #12: TIM - The Ideas Market

TIM stands for the “The Ideas Market”. TIM is a web service that acts as a platform to trade ideas.

Most people have ideas but lack Resources, Readiness and Rigor (3Rs of Execution!) to bring these ideas to life. Many on the other hand may have the 3Rs but lack the ideas or concepts to begin with.

TIM bridges this gap by connecting people who have the ideas to people who need ideas to execute.

Please do not confuse this with concept of investors or private equities. TIM is an open market place where anyone can sell or buy ideas.

The process works something like this,

1. X has an idea but lack the 3Rs to execute. Also X is not inclined to spend energies on the 3Rs
2. X then prepares a business case explaining the idea and revenue model and puts it up for sale on TIM
3. It’s important that the idea be detailed out and not be limited to a high level concept
4. All ideas that goes on TIM will be copyright protected automatically
5. Anyone who is interested in the idea presented by X can bid to buy the idea and can quote a price
6. X can sell the idea based on the highest one time price or based on share allocation that the buyer offers
7. An idea can be sold to more than one buyer if its agreed to be used in non competing scenarios
8. TIM generates revenues by taking a % of the total deal

Idea #11: Itstory

Itstory (pronounced as It’s Story) is the single largest complication and archive of the history of all corporations and institutions that have existed in the last 110 years (from 1900 to 2010). I know what you are thinking. The idea is a dud because such information already exists in Wikipedia and other encyclopaedias. I agree that its there but what they have is a brief overview, summary of companies and not the details.

Itstory will offer unprecedented levels of details and information about every single corporation that has recorded information.

1. How the company came into being?
2. Major milestones
3. All interviews and articles every published about the company in Media
4. TV interviews, Videos, Ads from that company
5. Financial trends and Stock positions
6. A good summary of why the company failed (if it has failed)
7. What are the people involved in those company now doing
8. Rich personal history about the key people of the corporation

This could even be made into comic books or part of school syllabus for children to learn from.
In a nutshell and borrowing from Google’s tag line, Itstory will be,

“Organising the World’s Corporate Information in the most sensible, effective and useful format”

Idea #3: Clog- The Collaborative Microblogger

Clog is a new platform that combines traditional blogging, micro blogging and social media collaboration. The idea is simple. Each Clog comprises of a cluster of members and it’s a closed group system, in the sense that only people within a clog can edit and author but the clog itself can be a public or a private document.

A clog must have a minimum of 3 members and a clog is complete and can be published only when at least 2 or more members of that clog add to the contents of the creator of that session of the clog. Each member can edit only 140 characters and at a time only 5 members can clog. So the maximum allowable characters of a clog is 140*5=700 characters.

The member who starts a clog session can write on any topic but members who add to that clog session have to either continue that session or the last member to edit the clog session must provide a logical link to the first session of that clog thread.

A clog that is publicly listed can be commented, rated by anyone outside the clog.

Idea #2: SoPer!!

Our life is a sequence of activities. Little actions linked in a sequence to form patterns, personalities, societies and our general way of life. Everything is a sequence of events. Any change in one event inevitably leads to changes in the eventuality of the event before the change happened.

What we call as personal changes is actually change in activities. Some changes are conscious, some innate and some coerced by circumstances. If the same activity changes in a large multitude of people at the same time then what we call as changes in the society occur.

SoPer is a social media service that tracks, measures, designs and reports social changes occurring as a result of small personal changes in activity.

It is completely user driven where a user creates of list of activities that comprises his/her daily life. Activities should be as granular and as specific as possible. Once the activities are created the user can trigger changes to an individual or a set of activities and share with other users within a closed or an open group. Others in the group can emulate these changes or trigger their own changes.

Closed groups can create rules of compliance in which a change in activity agreed by a group will be followed by all members of the group. There should be an option for members to opt out.

The changes can be permanent or for a limited period as agreed by the group. Change in activity does not project changes in the outcome but the outcome of the change in activity is a mere observation of the impact of changes. In other words there are no set goals but goals are observed, documented and shared with other users or other groups. These can be made public or can be kept private.

SoPer is intended to provide a social web platform to affect societal changes through small personal activity changes that happens within groups of people.