Paul Robinson
Based in United Kingdom. Member for 10 months
Ideas Submitted by this User
As part of the ideas of making vagueware better, some consideration has been given to making the code under vagueware.com open source, thereby enabling idea banks and open innovation in a more widestream circle. ...
Paul Robinson submitted this 10 months ago
Whilst it’s lovely being able to post ideas up here on the site and allow people to edit and discuss them, the goal must eventually be to produce some software. ...
Paul Robinson submitted this 10 months ago
One way to encourage collaboration on turning ideas into reality is to provide monetary incentive. ...
Paul Robinson submitted this 10 months ago
Users of mail or news readers are used to sorting content based on source – e.g. from addresses, maybe subject lines, etc. – but this has traditionally been quite clunky and inelegant. ...
Paul Robinson submitted this 10 months ago
In an article on his blog Tim O’Reilly argues that we should be table to easily export Facebook “social graph” data and move it between applications. ...
Paul Robinson submitted this 10 months ago
Almost everybody in the IT industry has a horror story about an IT recruiter. This is a proposal for a system to help employers identify potential candidates based on peer approval and selection. This is described here as a software system, but it wouldn’t necessarily need an IT system. ...
Paul Robinson submitted this 10 months ago
At GeekUp Liverpool in October 2007, the lack of an open-source high-quality screen reader for those with visual impairment, with regular updates and a reliable and consistent manner of managing various DOM updates, Javascript alerts, etc. is needed. ...
Paul Robinson submitted this 9 months ago
In an article on his blog Joel Spolsky discusses a system incorporated into FogBugz 6.0 that allows for “realistic scheduling”. ...
Paul Robinson submitted this 9 months ago
In my experience, every accounting system on the planet uses a completely different format.
Is there a way we can present in a standard format? Even just CSV would be enough.
Once we know how to get systems to move data between each other, the rest
This is supposed to be about finding solutions to problems. Sometimes we need to think about things differently, but ultimately it should all be about solutions. If ThinkFold is a good fit, of course it should be considered!
Basically, there are a couple of issue with this approach, so I’ve added a hint in the body – basically you need access to all the details but you then need to control access to those details.
The alternative would be to allow users to build up virtual business cards inside the application and decide who they give those cards out to.
By the way, there was a problem with the code so your reply got stripped down to a mere 255 characters. It’s fixed now, but sorry your reply got truncated! Feel free to post more answers.
Also, don’t forget all the ideas are editable – you can edit everything above. ;-)
I’m wondering why people aren’t keen on this idea – no votes at all so far.
I was thinking of spending time incorporating this, but it’s going to cost money to draw up the T&Cs – maybe more ideas need to be put in the system before people can “get it”?
But so can anybody. I need to make the wiki functionality clearer I think.
The ideas here are public domain, ma laddo. If somebody does, it’s up to them to decide what they do with it.
The reasoning is simple. Let’s suppose somebody now produces it. They develop the code and start selling it. You claim they stole your idea. They claim they’ve never heard of you, this site or this page. What then?
To save everybody a lot of time, we say nobody stipulates anything around an idea.
However, the next phase of is to allow people to setup bounty prizes with criteria such as “must be open source”, “must work in all browsers”, “must conform to Gnome HCI guidelines” etc. and for anybody to contribute. That way, developers could “win” a few thousand pounds for developing a system proposed on here (providing enough people had thrown in fivers and tenners into the pot to make it that big).
Good idea though. How about tagging it with some tags, eh?