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by arnabdotorg 5782 days ago
Taking this a step further:

1. Use Facebook Connect to create a library of things that you own. e.g. DVDs, tools.

2. Suggest Collections/activities that arise out of your social network: "Amy, Jon and you have all the Star Wars movies among you: Time for a Star Wars Marathon? David and Emma would be interested in joining(based on interests)!", or "Joanna and you have all the things needed to go camping".

3. Profit model: Suggest things to buy on Amazon that "completes" the collection: e.g. "If one of the three of you bought "Snatch", then you would have all the movies by Guy Ritchie"

This requires data mining for list generation (see Google Sets), Facebook APIs / Opengraph, location apis, and Amazon APIs, and has a money side to it.

[i hereby release this idea under the "buy me a beer if you use it" license]

1 comments

Nice. If he doesn't build it, you should. Looks like a good passive income earner ;)

Cheers