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. ...

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. ...

When’s the next bus at your nearest two stops ? How about the next 5 buses ? ...

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. ...

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. ...

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. ...

Facebook now has a stake through it from Microsoft. How long will it be before its rebranded facebook live ? Or someother related thingy. ...

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. ...

One way to encourage collaboration on turning ideas into reality is to provide monetary incentive. ...

Most businesses still present their invoices in paper format, and even where electronic generation of invoices is provided, they are presented in a format that can’t be automatically imported into accounts systems (e.g. PDF format). ...

How can the viable system model be applied to new media systems design? ...

http://www.microsoft.com/surface/ ...

In an article on his blog Joel Spolsky discusses a system incorporated into FogBugz 6.0 that allows for “realistic scheduling”. ...

Create an open source version of Scribd. Some of the code to do this is already online as open source. It just needs a team of people to bring it together, add features and bug fix.