Hmmm… I was reading this article when I thought… how cool it would have been if such things were available when I am in my primary school… I study in a pretty affluent secondary school… Definitely will have a lot of people carpooling. 
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/25/zimride-a-carpooling-startup-that-actually-makes-money/
During my university days, I actually tried to do a start up with 2 other friends I got to know in a technopreneurship class. Well, those were the times when the dot com boom was still raving… and everybody had a start-up idea somehow. We too had ours. We wanted to do a discount site. A site which will agglomerate all the coupon vouchers of Singapore. NTUC, Carrefour, etc… always take up half page ads in newspaper to lure customers in with special buys…. but what happens if say.. the customer lost their copy of the newspaper? Wouldn’t it be nice if they can just go to a e-coupon site to print out the coupon and claim the discounts? Wouldn’t it be nice… if we can sign up at a site to say what kind of products we frequently purchase and be notified of it once it comes on sale?
E-coupons are coming alive once again in the States… maybe its time to start something similar in Singapore.
Well, this app allows you to very easily torrent out the relevant DVD. Hmmm… imagine… we can see a book, scan in the isbn.. .and automatically know the prices at Amazon or reserve a book at the library (great idea for Bookjetty right? hope he reads my blog…)
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/03/how-to-get-free.html
But, I guess it is powerful. Not just prices.. but reviews too. Looking around for some sausages? Not sure what people say about it? Just maybe scan in a product code (does sausages have those???) and then u can get some great reviews….
Actually, Amazon should like immediately start developing some andriod apps for this purpose…
Hmmm.. I was just wondering if there is any opportunity in this. It seems that Singapore does have its own version of Google Health:
http://www.singhealth.com.sg/Newsroom/NewsReports/2008/Health+Level+7+(HL7)+launch+(ST).htm
This looks like a pretty new protocol? Wondering if private clinics might need some software to link to the patients’ health record. Also how will it work? Will it require the patient to log in at the clinic?
Surely the clinic cannot access the patient health record just through his NRIC number without validation on the patient side. That will be a gross invasion of privacy.
Hmmm… must drop KKT a tinkle on this…
Today I was at church and they were talking about Christian Disciplines. One of the disciplines was journaling. Suddenly, I thought.. hmmm .. the one year bible online facebook application needs improvement. Besides just pointing you to your daily readings.. .it does nothing.. and hack.. it uses only a small area of the entire screen for such info. All the rest are basically for advertisement. Isn’t it irritating?
When I was really small, I was very frightened of being lost. Its really scary when you are so tiny and all the grown-ups around you are so huge that your vision is like 100% blocked in crowded places. Today, I got lost again. I was at this church near the Commonwealth MRT when I suddenly realized that Denise was no longer within my sight. Darn, I had a few options:
What will you do if you were in my place?
I seem to read somewhere some time back that software developers generally go about solving some problem that frustrates them daily… and in the process come out with a BIG BANG project. Hmmm.. is it possible that this “Scratching The Itch” phenomenon is one of the easiest way to develop truly solid products, i.e. over the conventional business plan with market forecasts, etc….
I can understand the itch. It is something that you are exposed to… and greatly irritates you.
Currently, I am in a FAT-FIGHTING phase of my life… and I guess… a lot of my blogs will be about such health issues. I am currently using a online portal to track my workouts and nutrition – http://www.gyminee.com. It works kind of fine save for a few problems:
Hmmm… I am itchy….. but do I have enough hands to actually scratch my itch?
I was thinking… man… one plate of chicken rice in the morning and it provides me with sufficient energy to work out on the thread mill, do presentations and work? Hmmm… maybe the human being is just one of the most efficient generators of energy! Imagine we can culture muscle tissues, feed them with rice… These tissues will be attached to pistons in which they will pull and push based on electrical signals send to them (to simulate those from the brains…)
Imagine the amount of energy just a bowl of rice will generate! Hmmm… fats might even start accumulating at its side if the load is not heavy enough!
Have u ever wondered why machines had to use human beings to power themselves in the matrix? Hmmm…… enlightenment…..
As more and more people start having their own personal web publishing platform – their blog, web widgets have also started to rise in popularity. Why? This very blog (at least for now), has 2 web widgets:
Dynamic content is very important for websites nowadays. Visitors like to see new content once in a while… or minimally… search engines like to see fresh content once in a while. In fact, just to sort of SEO my company website, I have included a dynamic portion at the footer to showcase the latest blog entries of our company blog (which was also started recently for more or less the same reasons…)
I was thinking.. wouldn’t it be much easier if we can just put RSS feeds on the website for dynamic content generation? i.e. when you go to my SEO page, I will have a small widget box to stream out content from RSS feeds consumed from SEOChat. I believe such widgets are already available. However, problem is… I am not able to choose the feeds I want to show on my website. It is all too automatic. What happens if it just shows some trashy article that I do not want to be associated with?
But it will be even nicer say.. if I have a way to bookmark it directly into my website’s rss feed. Heck.. why not just write something that can interface with your delicious account so that it can retrieve all the articles that have been bookmarked with certain keywords… and expose it as a rss feed on your website?
It will be so convenient. I read a cool Web2.0 concept.. tag it on delicious.. and all my web visitors will be able to see it on my website.
I think Facebook has kind of changed our lifestyles in certain ways. It gives us incentives to update our status… as friends are able to comment on it. I remember I once changed my status about feeling really tired.. and a concerned friend of mine actually posted a comment on my profile. I thought that was really kind of the person….
But the point is, it gives us a convenient way to keep in touch. A blog is also cool. Friends reading your blog will know what’s happening to your life. In fact, imagine.. if everybody kept a blog and just write a little about what they are doing… we will be all very, very well connected into each other’s live. I guess that is how tweeter is working… But did not really have time to look into that.
I looked at Facebook and MSN. both have an easy way of updating the users’ current status. Hmmm.. would it not be nice if there is a way for me to update my status somewhere and all my MSN, Facebook, etc… get updated all at once? I think that will be something really convenient.
But.. hmmm.. maybe that’s how tweeter works? No idea… and worse… no time…
Jiang Hao is having 51 beats a min in Facebook but is just back to Singapore on MSN. Not synchronised status…
