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| half-siblings | Sometimes ideas are just in the air.
And until there's a way of searching for "a site just like
the one I'm thinking of," sites will co-evolve, maybe with
slightly different spins. |
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| http://www.ideasling.com | ||
| Blog for idea posts, where "go-getters" and "industrious souls"
help the loosely categorized ideas "take wings". | ||
| http://whynot.net | ||
| The halfbakery cloning experiment that got away. | ||
| http://www.managemyideas.com/ | ||
| A collaboration platform that finances itself
by showing ads to the people in your social network
while you and they collaborate on developing ideas. | ||
| http://www.innocentive.com/ | ||
| High-end bounties posted by companies looking for innovations.
The site makes a credible attempt at protecting the
intellectual property of the large corporations looking for
solutions. | ||
| http://www.thinkspotting.com/ | ||
| Support for images/videos; a weekly podcast that goes with the
site; google ads; no copyright for users; a four-step process in
which "promotion" somehow happens prior to "materialization"
and that isn't otherwise visibly used on the site - and
a tie-in with sticker sales. | ||
| http://www.pitt.edu/~ctnst3/chindogu.html | ||
| Chris Kuan writes: "If shouldexist is the halfbakery's
good twin, then surely Chindogu is the slightly demented
older brother who's kept in the back room." Too true. | ||
| http://www.total.net/~fishnet/index.html | ||
| "For Sale By Mental Patient" spreads out existentialist,
beautifully warped wares like "TIME REMOVING SOAP!!",
"BARKLESS TOMATO!!!*" or "NAP SACK!!!!". | ||
| http://www.ideavolcano.com | ||
| A British blog that accepts submissions via email and
hosts comments on them. Unlike the halfbakery, the people
who run it have started some companies themselves, and
may actually know what they're talking about. | ||
| http://www.globalideasbank.org | ||
| The halfbakery's rich philantrophist British uncle.
Categorized, strongly moderated, voted on from 0 to 10,
with a 1000 pound prize for the best non-technological
idea, given each June 1st. | ||
| http://www.premisespremises.com | ||
| An idea blog with asking prices and legal
protection - making it possible to prove that
your idea was posted at a certain date, and
to track who has viewed it.
Discussions of the individual ideas have
been outsourced to quicktopic.com. | ||
| http://www.cambrianhouse.com/ | ||
| Cambrian House bills itself
as the "Home of Crowdsourcing", and is hosting voting
and discussion threads on ideas with a view towards
implementing, marketing, and profiting from them.
Like many such sites, the encouraging copy is heavy on
the "Wisdom of Crowds" and light on realism or results. | ||
| http://www.geekinventions.com | ||
| A bunch of small PHP-Nuke based forums that
aim to support geeks and their build projects. | ||
| http://www.ideenwiki.de/ | ||
| A German-lanugage Wiki that collects "ideas that
someone would like to see realized but probably
won't get around to doing". | ||
| http://www.freeidea.org/ | ||
| A (yet) small WordPress blog
"about thinking and ideas" that accepts
submissions from logged-in users. | ||
| http://www.yet2.com | ||
| Aiming to create a global business-to-business market
for technology, this slick startup has scored $20m in
funding and charges mostly medium- to large
corporations for listing their licensable technology. | ||
| http://www.brainhead.com | ||
| Since 2004, this site has claimed to be "rebuilding".
A free, but registry-requiring idea database with
professional aspirations. The few and hard-to-get-to
ideas come as categorized titles, short summary, and
attached .pdf or .doc files. Billing itself as an idea
portal rather than just a database, the site also
links to various registry and filing services, and
to industry professionals and companies that could
help realize ideas. | ||
| http://www.e-dea.com/ | ||
| A free, largely empty, searchable, categorized database,
paired with two attempts to sell webspace for $10/year for
hosting your own trademark or patent-related site. | ||
| http://www.invent.org/collegiate/ | ||
| US Collegiate inventors' competition. Since 1991,
fully enrolled college or university students
have been competing for prize money, alone or
in teams of up to three. | ||
| http://www.icalledit.com/ | ||
| A bulletin-board style site for predictions
rather than inventions. | ||
| http://www.creativitypool.com | ||
| A moderated idea database that supports submissions,
searches, and voting for ideas,
with banner ads and many cool text effects. | ||
| http://www.idea-a-day.com | ||
| Small, short, strongly moderated,
beautifully worded and laid out,
and ready for re-publication as a book. | ||
| http://www.twoideas.org/ | ||
| Hoping to do idea-a-day one better, Seattle
writer Jon Lasser posts his ideas, puns and
theories. | ||
| http://www.ideastorm.com/ | ||
| A Dell corporate database of categorized and
voted-on ideas (for Dell products), open to general
posts, comments, and voting; moderated, based
on code from salesforce.com. | ||
| mailto:scottadams@aol.com | ||
| Scott Adams' version of the submit-your-ideas site,
called the "lazy entrepeneur", closed down after receiving
close to 5,000 business ideas on October 18th, 2001.
The announcement on the site encourages readers to e-mail them
"to Scott Adams, who may use them in a future newsletter or book." | ||
| http://www.halfbakedsoftware.com | ||
| A small university spin-off that markets web
software and has no relation to this web site
other than by name. | ||
| http://www.thesurrealist.co.uk/priorart | ||
| The Prior-Art-O-Matic from Kevan Davis. | ||
| http://www.totallyabsurd.com | ||
| Under the subtitle "America's Goofiest Patents",
artist and marketing consultant Ted VanCleave
comments on illustrations from old and new
weird patents. | ||
| spinoffs | Halfbakery-related side projects
that have sprung up over time. |
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| http://halfbakers.multiply.com/ | ||
| An invitation-only multiply social club for current and former halfbakers.
Contact po or
DrCurry to join. | ||
| http://underdone.multiply.com/ | ||
| Public forum for news and commentary. | ||
| http://www.flickr.com/groups/inglybinglydingly/ | ||
| Flickr photo group for halfbakers | ||
| http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html?name=halfbakery&submitform=search | ||
| Mycroft is a collection of plugins for the
Mozilla browser's search bar. Thanks to Roleo
Hibachi, one of the thousands of available
plugins searches the halfbakery!
Search for "halfbakery" on the mycroft site
to install it. (On a Mac, fn-click to change search
engines.) | ||
| http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Halfopoly | ||
| Wagster has follwed through with his idea for
a "Halfopoly" layout in spite of [_sctld_]
posting a very similar idea earlier. Go coevolution!
Designs:
Board,
50x50cm board at 180 dpi,
Board in A4 segments:
1,
2,
3,
4 from wagster,
and generic board game
assembly instructions for parts 1-4 from our very own
Steve DeGroof. | ||
| http://aphorism-game.blogspot.com/ | ||
| The Aphorism Game Show, hosted by freerunner. | ||
| http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/overbaked/ | ||
| Overbaked, the unmoderated mailing list
established by RayfordSteele. | ||
| telnet://irc.worldonline.nl:6667 | ||
| (Or if that server refuses, irc.worldonline.be.)
Look for channel #halfbakery on zippyanna's server. | ||
| http://wiw.org/~absterge/HB/hbreportintro.html | ||
| The first research paper on the halfbakery by
nick_n_uit; thanks to absterge for the hosting. | ||
| patents | Sites focusing on intellectual property,
patents, and patent searches,
both serious and silly. |
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| http://www.uspto.gov/patft | ||
| US Patent and Trademark Office's searchable
patent database. | ||
| http://www.delphion.com | ||
| US, European, Japanese patent database search
that seems faster than the USPTO site. | ||
| http://ep.espacenet.com/ | ||
| European Patent Office, with database search
including worldwide patents. | ||
| http://www.priorartdatabase.com/ | ||
| Browsable and, to a limited degree, searchable
documents submitted by companies and gathered
from the world at large; full access costs extra. | ||
| http://www.researchdisclosure.com/ | ||
| Research Disclosure magazine publishes, for a fee,
ideas in a way that holds up legally as prior art;
patent offices subscribe to this.
They're British, they've been doing it for 35 years,
they have merely contact information on the web
(but not archives) - this is as stuffy as it
gets. But if you're looking for a quick, cheap,
solid way of preventing your ideas from being
patented, this is probably it. | ||
| http://www.patentlysilly.com/ | ||
| Beautifully laid-out site highlights absurd,
useless, or obvious recent patents. | ||
| http://wwww.totallyabsurd.com/ | ||
| Same shtick, but the patents are older, and
there's more advertising. | ||
| friends of halfbakery |
I have met these people and would post bail for them.
They're funny and richly creative and they've been at
it for years. |
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| http://sorabji.com/ | ||
| New York artist, pianist, web person Mark Thomas. | ||
| http://www.plover.com/~mjd/ | ||
| Mark Jason Dominus' plentiful Universe of Discourse | ||
| http://catalog.com/hopkins/ | ||
| Long-haired hippie cellular automaton hacker Don Hopkins. | ||
| http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/ | ||
| Cosma Shalizi, Rennaissance man. | ||
| http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/ | ||
| John Lawler, associate professor of Linguistics at U Michigan. | ||
| http://www.crypto.com/ | ||
| Matt Blaze, cryptophotomacrographer. | ||
| mutually yours |
These are homepages and blogs of halfbakery users.
(Usually, people link to their home page from
their profile page, but sometimes it's nice to
have them all in one place.) Send e-mail to
bakesperson@halfbakery.com if you
belong on this list. |
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| http://iotd.patrickandrews.com/ | ||
| Patrick Andrews' "Invention of the Day" blog, not to be
confused with idea-a-day. Given this impressive collection
of halfbaked inventions, he doesn't really need an account
here, but we're glad to have him anyway. | ||
| http://www.stinz.com/ | ||
| Comic artist Donna Barr (of "Desert Peach" fame)
is a halfbakery user. Hey, go back to work! | ||
| http://www.fronoes.com/ | ||
| Dave "Sid" Rose's web comic, supposed to be published
each Friday, so ... well, check back Sunday.
Or maybe Monday. | ||
| http://dbmag9.blogspot.com/ | ||
| dbmag9's blog of "Random Thoughts" | ||
| http://www.2012olympiccompetitor.co.uk/ | ||
| Jonathan Phillips' developing chronicle of his
attempt to raise 1,000,000 British Pounds for
charity and compete in the 2012 olympics,
in some sport, for some country. | ||
| http://www.murkywaters.tk/ | ||
| trickytracks' blog. | ||
| http://www.theshoogle.com | ||
| Yum. Crumpets! (You'll need flash for this.) | ||
| http://www.tvwritersvault.com/ | ||
| (Formerly realityshowpitch.tv.)
A site that specializes in bringing
writers and buyers of new reality TV shows together. | ||
| http://www.abettermousetrap.co.uk/ | ||
| Consultancy run by two British
technologists who help companies and inventors evaluate
and improve ideas. | ||
| http://sneaker.nl/ | ||
| Peter Sneekes's lively XSL-ized weblog
and homepage. | ||
| http://www.deepfun.com/weblog/ | ||
| Bernie DeKoven's Fun-Filled Weblog | ||
| http://www.throwingshadows.com/ | ||
| Paul Quinn's straightforward weblog. | ||
| http://www.dafydd.net/ | ||
| Dafydd Ll. L. Rees, a Welsh software engineer and
halfbakery contributor. | ||
| http://www.baloney.com/dean | ||
| Dean Calahan, FoB. | ||
| http://www.ee0r.com/ | ||
| Elliott C. "Eeyore" Evans, technical writer,
inventor. | ||
| http://www.coolstop.com/ | ||
| A portal that values creativity and attitude;
in spite of the "cool" verbiage I'm pleased to have
been recommended by it. | ||
| http://www.pixiechick.com/ | ||
| dark pink weblog candy whirl | ||
| http://www.calamondin.com/ | ||
| Not a kumquat. | ||
| http://www.monstro.com/ | ||
| Because some of your finer moments occur somewhere else. | ||
| http://www.webmonkey.com/ | ||
| Monkey see, monkey bite. | ||
| http://www.purecontent.blogspot.com/ | ||
| "Looking at more stuff. Thinking about it harder." | ||
| http://www.waltzer.net/ | ||
| Charming Irish DJ bloke's weblog. | ||
| http://www.explodingdog.com/ | ||
| sam draws pictures | ||
| http://www.wildideas.org/ | ||
| A distributed meme database in the planning stage. | ||
| http://www.gusset.net/ | ||
| Kylie Gusset's weblog, pink and pastel blue. | ||
| http://reinder.rustema.nl/ | ||
| ReindeR Rustema, a media consultant and Halfbakery contributor. | ||
| http://www.syntelos.com/ | ||
| John Pritchard's projects | ||
| http://www.tonyaustin.com/ | ||
| A web programmer from Kent. (Sounds like it
should be the first line of a limerick, doesn't it?) | ||
| http://www.breakfastforlunch.com/ | ||
| "The blog of champions." Doing what blogs do best,
whisking your brain from one interesting little
unrelated tidbid to the next. Much of it is about
art and music. | ||
| http://www.improbable.com/ | ||
| The Annals of Improbable Research, awarders of the
prestigious Ig Nobel prize. | ||
