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I love the internet.

try tracking back it’s trail and you’ll see inventions, small and big, cute and heroic, strange and stranger, brilliant and stupid. some reinventing their courses. some getting lost. in this life called the internet

I am adding 10 more ideas to internet’s already burping appetite. they may be versions of an old, established habit. they may also be ideas that might make you laugh. they might also change the world. perhaps.

I am giving them away. treat them as stray puppies if you must. pick them up, nurture them, make ‘em shine. perhaps.

#1. Social Piggy-bank

A piggy bank service that allows people to put in money online in one piggy bank and only redeem the money on 1st of the year after. The amount is not visible to either of the savers until the 366th day.

#2. A profile picture masker

Social networks can safeguard profile pictures that are masked in a way that when downloaded, taken screenshots of or saved become unrecognizable.

#3. Global fashion pool

One platform which sources and supplies fashion from all over the world. Customers can pick and mix the ensemble by mixing fashion pieces from the variety listed on the site/boutique by buy them at a fixed price. Think Sushi bar for clothes.

#4. Musical storytelling

Make people verbal DJs by allowing them to mix various word and generate music using this unique application which converts feelings to music or the other way around. Create music and a poetry/prose will be generated based on the words attached to the notes.

#5. Crowdsourced Literature

Create a global storytelling experiment where each person is only allowed to add one word to the story. Let the story be circulated around the world and publish the final book. (Conjunctions and prepositions are pre-filled)

#5. Carpool alert

Carpool alert layers carpool information over google maps, tracks where you are and shows you carpool offers in your area (also allowing you to post), also providing you information on how much gas you’ll save and information on how you’ll help decongest the city you live in.

#6. Recreate your city

Allow people to recreate the infrastructures of their cities virtually. Create a game out of recreating the cities. When they play, they’ll see the faults. And when they see the faults, they’ll realize that they’re easily fixable. Then take online offline.

#7. Karma points

Give people a way to calculate and collect their karma points. Integrate this with Facebook and twitter. More positive statements, compliments, birthday wishes increase their karma points. Make ‘being nice’ cooler. Then give people an opportunity to add bonus karma points by doing something good in the physical world.

#8. Pimp my Powerpoint

A powerpoint pimper application that can be downloaded on your computer. You make the powerpoint, upload it in the app and it makes it prettier, smarter and cooler for you.

#9. Recipe exchange program

A network of chefs and food artists across the world can join in and exchange personally created recipes with others. Create a video exchange tool that allows a person from Mumbai teach someone how to make his/her own version of the ‘Daal’ while learning how to make enchiladas from someone from across the world.

#10. Free School

Create an online school for people of all ages and connect them with teachers of all ages and from across the world. Get the teachers to volunteer certain hours per week and get the students to sign up for the classes online. The virtual classrooms will host lessons in learning new languages, history, art, literature, science and so on.

If you like any ideas, feel free to make them your own. Or give me a shout out and tell me if you want me to help develop the idea further. Or write to me if you have an idea but don’t know how to get about developing it further.

If you love the ideas listed here enough to sponsor my ticket to the Cannes, I wouldn’t mind that either.

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