10 pieces - an internal idea presentation for Parc
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When I was at Parc I suggested some ideas. This is the deck of those ideas. Kind of interesting from a historical perspective. I'm surprised I recommended they get an office downtown.
10 pieces - an internal idea presentation for Parc
- 1. 10 Pieces @parcinc @anselm Aug 18 2011 Friday, August 19, 2011
- 2. Smart F皋皋d (This is a project we are doing effectively) A simple smart restaurant recommender service Scores restaurants based on your profile over time Aggregate activity from foursquare and other services May allow vendors to update their menu and hours May provide lead generation to venders May filter by health and wellness or other criteria Friday, August 19, 2011
- 3. Smart & Mobile Broker (This is an extract of a technology we have) A public API on the web for matching merchants and mobile consumers Predictive analytics based Advertisers supply profile activity over time ( they negotiate terms ) Merchants and advertisers can broker transactions Demonstrate better fulfillment than keyword advertising Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable... Friday, August 19, 2011
- 4. Life Coach (Simply a standalone riff on our existing work with Ford) Provide counsel on personal life choices vis a vis work Career, benefits, retirement, financial etcetera Fueled by personal profile data and comparative analysis Turnkey standalone service that small and large businesses could use. Friday, August 19, 2011
- 5. Harlequin (We could play both sides of the pattern recognition issue) Privacy cloaking service to obscure digital shadow Generate pseudo anonymous activity that appears real Muddy social graphs so that profiles cannot be clustered A profile consists of traces, checkins, peers, any activity Accept real profiles as input and masquerade on demand Friday, August 19, 2011
- 6. Image DNS (This is something Ive wanted to do for years) Image in live video stream lookup service Returns an URL or metadata associated with an image Public API allows people to publish images to server Pay to be the first return on a specific image Supplant QRCodes Provide a consumer facing retail app for mobile devices Friday, August 19, 2011
- 7. Storytellr (I believe there is a market for this piece of our remote servicing app) Consumer facing web app to build 2d animated sequences Overlay on top of youtube or other existing video sites May be used for entertainment and or tutorial purposes Multiplayer support for simultaneous authoring Popularize a new media type Possibly offer 3d with image tracking as a rev 2 Must be open source in part since the client is javascript I would like this myself to help me figure out how to fix my car Friday, August 19, 2011
- 8. Jam (This is a business - similar to Jive and the like) Fast web based real time messaging API for web apps Manage user identity and sessions Manage room creation, joining, detaching Manage messaging between rooms Middleware tier application for third party vendors Friday, August 19, 2011
- 9. Frendar (This is simply something Ive always wanted) A heat map of friend like places See your life contrail See where your friends are right now See where friend like people typically hang out Select a person or topic to view from as a lens Friday, August 19, 2011
- 10. Bodycode (This is something I would like to use) A gestural interface for working with digital objects In a sense phase 2 of the Parc work in inventing the GUI. Revolutionize - once again - how we work with computers Create healthier workers by improved HCI Use for building and arranging work that has any kind of spatial metaphor - programming, browsing the web, building presentations Friday, August 19, 2011
- 11. Indoor Navigation (I see this as low hanging fruit and an enabling technology) Uses image based tracking to do indoor navigation Low cost licensing terms to encourage third party adoption Friday, August 19, 2011
- 12. PARC Downtown Finding ways to foster high energy participation in PARC High velocity code sprints and ship to market early for feedback No middlemen in terms of licensing deals, partners, roadblocks Connect PARC to the real world better; better market vision Let people take, use and license PARC technology Provide a roof over young entrepreneurs heads and support They self fund or we partner fund with local risk takers Friday, August 19, 2011