Active Projects Hackathon

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Active Projects Hackathon

lHackathon Projects 1.5 << hackathonprojects.tk
Ideas

[People](http://ideaoverflow.tk)[a]
Active Projects
Completed Projects
[✰ Add your own at the bottom]! ✰ Open means you can join! ✰ Add tag #6.470 if you’re doing the contest!

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PhotoQuote -- app that lets you photograph a quote in a book, then searches online to find the boundaries of the quote you're probably looking to note down, and adds the quote to your notebook. I find myself photographing quotes all the time. This is a big idea, and knowing the thread of quotes a person is interested in is a very powerful, and truly relevant advertising dataset. #relates to “site that autocompletes quotes”

InstaQuote - site that autocompletes quotes like instadefine.com and it basically ends up letting you create a database of quotes you're interested in
and this is deep because quotes are your thoughts stated more clearly than you can state them yourself and if you make a db of all the quotes people think of you get a huge window into their lives it #relates to the power of status message logging. example: is send myself email of quotes I like for instance "and it scared me, having a wrong thought, because it meant my mind wasn't working properly" from the curious incident of the dog in the night-time i just was rereading today and i realized that was brilliant because it relates to a concept of avidya in eastern philosophy the idea that there are some thoughts that we have that aren't true, but instead things that shouldn't bother us bother us and when we think carefully and relax we can learn to only be bothered by the right things (relatedly, there's a lot to be done with etymology) #autocomplete #intentiondb
[email protected]
10/11/2012
[email protected]
Open
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IdeaOverflow IDE (Idea Development Environment) and Political Progress Bar; Explanation
I have a very well thought out nexus of projects that I think might interest some of you, incl. the following: ~Jacob [email protected]
I'm think of working on upgrading http://hackathonprojects.tk/ today at MIT "Hackathon 2.0" from an ordinary Google Doc to an enhanced, idea-sharing-online collaboration system! However, this will take attempting to basically re-create Etherpad-like functionality (etherpad lite is open source, can be extended, and runs on Node.js --cj). If anybody knows the NowJS guys perhaps they would be relevant to talk to? Specifically, I want to retain as much of the current editing functionality of the Google Doc is possible but I want to:
-Create a search box that allows me to filter ideas by tags → (cont on next pg)
-create an auto fill when I start typing a hash tag to mark an idea with the tag.
-Create a really cool special "#relates-to earlierIdeaNameHere" tag that allows you to link ideas to each other naturally. Once linked, by clicking on the relates to tag, you will be able to see a pop-up or expanded div with the related ideas content. This way, threads of ideas can naturally evolve. #autocomplete #intentiondb

See related IdeaOverflow.tk http://instadefine.com/IdeaOverflow/ATTHackathon/git/IdeaOverflow/index.php ~Jacob ([email protected]) (https://github.com/jinpan/IdeaOverflow ) See also http://atthackathon.tk/
IdeaOverflow -- A place people can share good ideas that they don't necessarily have time to implement themselves online. I want to make a map, a connected graph, of all of peoples' ideas (and implemented engineering projects) that shows the relationship of these projects to one another. At the borders of this graph would lie the ideas that are yet to be implemented -- investigating them more deeply would be analogous to exploring undiscovered terrain on a map. This tool would help people to come up with awesome ideas for hackathons, class projects, startups, and fun, and it also allow people to see the trends/relationships in exciting ideas that are surging at a given point in time. Most of all, it's inspiring to think that through this system, you could bring vitality to the education industry by reducing every class project to, at worst, implementing an idea that someone, somewhere would be really excited to build if they had the time to. #intentiondb

[email protected]
Comments:
Jacob: I randomly came across http://wikiwall.com/ after we discussed the infinite whiteboard concept. I definitely like the concept of expanding the ideaoverflow app though. I go through all my ideas once or twice a month just for that purpose of finding connections and remembering important but forgotten thoughts. However with the connections, making sure their human-tagged versus auto-related is important. -Colin Winter #intentiondb
1/7/2013
[email protected]
Open
+2
To build: CuriosityThread, a site that shows the chain of questions/interests a person asked/followed to gain the knowledge they have. Perhaps to partially populate this site, Wikipedia could track threads of browsing, and scrolling. Subsequently, tutorials (even a textbook!) customized to the curiosity profiles of different people could be made of it? (Relatedly, creating a web database of the series of questions bright students ask could be extremely powerful. I would love, for instance, to have documentation of the series of questions one of my friends asked over the course of his life to ultimately gain the knowledge to get gold at the International Chemistry Olympiad. Maybe you could get data from everybody and look specifically at how the ultrasuccessful differ?)
[email protected]
Comments:
1/7/2013
[email protected]
Open
+1
“BigScreen” app (needs sound + video synch)/”Bigkeyboard app” -- Jacob Cole [email protected] #multidevice
5/20/2012
[email protected]
[email protected]
Open
+1
Multiphone speaker (needs better synch) -- Rafael Cosman [email protected], Neal #multidevice
Comments:
11/20/2011
[email protected]
Open
+1
Emergency Pizza Button app -- One click pizza ordering via a big red button, modeled after the MIT east campus emergency pizza button. Relatedly, I want to make “Push a button, get a cookie” app for Insomnia Cookies. [email protected]#active
Comments:
1/7/2013
[email protected]
[email protected]
Maybe

Gmail status message logger -- It will log your status and those of all of your friends. Doing this is of utmost sociological importance I my intuition tells me. Could do sentiment analysis and correlate w location, school, friends etc. Are we indeed the combo of our 5 closest friends? [email protected] #socio
Current progress of the project:
-really it’s just a node js XMPP server which logs changes in status into a text file
-at the hackathon I’ll be
1. setting up a database
2. setting up a frontend and deploying

then when I’m done I’ll come meet people!
Comments:
11/10/12
[email protected]
[email protected]
Open

LiveLog <http://jacobsstuff.tpclubs.com/testing/LiveLog/LiveLog.htm> (goal: evernote + twitter + tag search) #<->IdeaOverflow
Comments:
11/10/12
[email protected]
Open

WhyIsItAwesome.tk
Why is it awesome?

The key to learning anything is getting into it and having fun. The best way to do this is to hang out with people who are doing so, and the second best way is to read what these people have written! The purpose of this wiki is to help people, especially high school and college students, become inspired to get into doing good things for fun; companion to Good Contests and Activities page on wiki admitsphere.org.

Why are the people who are doing this for fun doing it?
Comments:
1/14/12
[email protected]
Open

AdmitSphere.org
Article on the MIT Admissions Blog
You shouldn't have to buy an expensive book or pay an independent college counselor to get real college essays and advice. Through collaboration, we can give everyone access to the inside knowledge they need to write a powerful application, regardless of their financial situation or the quality of their school's college counseling. Browse the repository or Contribute your essays and advice.
Comments:
1/14/12
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
Open

IfIWentTo.tk (proto)#<->AdmitSphere.org
Comments:
1/7/13
[email protected]
[email protected]
Maybe

ProjectEvolution (For Truonex Hackathon with Hisham!) http://jacobsstuff.tpclubs.com/webtesting/TruonexHackathon/timeline-portfolio/ https://github.com/tmad4000/TruonexHackathon
1/7/13
[email protected]
[email protected]
Open

MIT Docs -- All the collaborative docs organizing the MIT community. #<->Google docs optimized for instant web publishing
- ThingsYouDidntKnowExistedAtMIT.tk

MITHomepages.tk -- people’s homepages + live projects!
WhatShouldIDo.tk -- the beginning of an app that suggests what you should do
IfIWentTo.tk -- inspirational database of ideas saying what people would do if they went to MIT or Harvard or the like
HackathonProjects.tk -- collaborative Google doc with really good hackathon project ideas.
IdeaOverflow.tk -- database of people’s skills, interests, and emails, and soon to be much more. [email protected], [email protected]

1/7/13
[email protected]
Open

InstaDefine.com -- instant dictionary done right
11/20/2010
[email protected]
[email protected]
Maybe

Add yours here!

[a]this is broken

# Active Projects Hackathon

[lHackathon Projects 1.5                                                                                                                                << hackathonprojects.tk](http://hackathonprojects.tk/)
[Ideas](http://hackathonprojects.tk)

[[People](http://ideaoverflow.tk)[a]](#cmnt1)
Active Projects
[Completed Projects](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nLIGo7tUsMae3jQO2K2HHc-_bT8t8ihUl2dSWg8iQVw/edit)
[✰ Add your own at the bottom]! ✰ Open means you can join! ✰ Add tag #6.470 if you’re doing the contest!

InstaQuote - site that autocompletes quotes like instadefine.com  and it basically ends up letting you create a database  of quotes you're interested in
and this is deep because quotes are your thoughts stated more clearly than you can state them yourself and if you make a db of all the quotes people think of  you get a huge window into their lives  it #relates to the power of status message logging. example:  is  send myself  email  of quotes I like  for instance  "and it scared me, having a wrong thought, because it meant my mind wasn't working properly"  from the curious incident of the dog in the night-time  i just was rereading today and i realized that was brilliant  because it relates to a concept  of avidya  in eastern philosophy the idea that there are some thoughts that we have that aren't true, but instead  things that shouldn't bother us bother us  and when we think carefully and relax we can learn to only be bothered by the right things  (relatedly, there's a lot to be done with etymology) #autocomplete #intentiondb
~jcole@mit.edu
10/11/2012
 jcole@mit.edu
Open
+2
[IdeaOverflow IDE (Idea Development Environment) and Political Progress Bar; Explanation](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UFjkJyI_D3JvVSeMQwN0HixOgYuISGwhcuyFuxqwhsY/edit)
[I have a very well thought out nexus of projects](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fCzZyi2Yzu_If0KHBpJxfEgoS7VkbvQvQWVlM5Eg9JQ/edit) that I think might interest some of you, incl. the following: ~Jacob jcole@mit.edu
[I'm think of working on upgrading http://hackathonprojects.tk/](http://hackathonprojects.tk/) today at MIT "Hackathon 2.0" from an ordinary Google Doc to an enhanced, idea-sharing-online collaboration system! However, this will take attempting to basically re-create Etherpad-like functionality (etherpad lite is open source, can be extended, and runs on Node.js --cj). If anybody knows the NowJS guys perhaps they would be relevant to talk to? Specifically, I want to retain as much of the current editing functionality of the Google Doc is possible but I want to:  
-Create a search box that allows me to filter ideas by tags → (cont on next pg)
-create an auto fill when I start typing a hash tag to mark an idea with the tag.
-Create a really cool special "#relates-to earlierIdeaNameHere" tag that allows you to link ideas to each other naturally. Once linked, by clicking on the relates to tag, you will be able to see a pop-up or expanded div with the related ideas content. This way, threads of ideas can naturally evolve. #autocomplete #intentiondb

[See related IdeaOverflow.tk <http://instadefine.com/IdeaOverflow/ATTHackathon/git/IdeaOverflow/index.php > ~Jacob (jcole@mit.edu) (https://github.com/jinpan/IdeaOverflow ) See also http://atthackathon.tk/](http://atthackathon.tk/)
IdeaOverflow -- A place people can share good ideas that they don't necessarily have time to implement themselves online. I want to make a map, a connected graph, of all of peoples' ideas (and implemented engineering projects) that shows the relationship of these projects to one another. At the borders of this graph would lie the ideas that are yet to be implemented -- investigating them more deeply would be analogous to exploring undiscovered terrain on a map. This tool would help people to come up with awesome ideas for hackathons, class projects, startups, and fun, and it also allow people to see  the trends/relationships in exciting ideas that are surging at a given point in time. Most of all, it's inspiring to think that through this system, you could bring vitality to the education industry by reducing every class project to, at worst, implementing an idea that someone, somewhere would be really excited to build if they had the time to. #intentiondb

~jcole@mit.edu
Comments:
[Jacob: I randomly came across http://wikiwall.com/](http://wikiwall.com/) after we discussed the infinite whiteboard concept. I definitely like the concept of expanding the ideaoverflow app though. I go through all my ideas once or twice a month just for that purpose of finding connections and remembering important but forgotten thoughts. However with the connections, making sure their human-tagged versus auto-related is important. -Colin Winter #intentiondb
1/7/2013
jcole@mit.edu
Open
+2
To build: CuriosityThread, a site that shows the chain of questions/interests a person asked/followed to gain the knowledge they have. Perhaps to partially populate this site, Wikipedia could track threads of browsing, and scrolling. Subsequently, tutorials (even a textbook!) customized to the curiosity profiles of different people could be made of it? (Relatedly, creating a web database of the series of questions bright students ask could be extremely powerful. I would love, for instance, to have documentation of the series of questions one of my friends asked over the course of his life to ultimately gain the knowledge to get gold at the International Chemistry Olympiad. Maybe you could get data from everybody and look specifically at how the ultrasuccessful differ?)
~jcole@mit.edu
Comments:
1/7/2013
jcole@mit.edu
Open
+1
[“BigScreen” app (needs sound + video synch)/”Bigkeyboard app](http://intrepid-labs.com/blog/wp-content/flagallery/swyp-hackathon-februrary-2012/img.jpg)” -- Jacob Cole tmad4000@gmail.com #multidevice
5/20/2012
jcole@mit.edu
jainp@mit.edu
Open
+1
Multiphone speaker (needs better synch) -- Rafael Cosman rafaelcosman@gmail.com, Neal #multidevice
Comments:
11/20/2011
[rafaelcosman@gmail.com](mailto:rafaelcosman@gmail.com)
Open
+1
Emergency Pizza Button app -- One click pizza ordering via a big red button, modeled after the MIT east campus emergency pizza button.  Relatedly, I want to make “Push a button, get a cookie” app for Insomnia Cookies. ~jcole@mit.edu#active
Comments:
1/7/2013
[jcole@mit.edu](mailto:jcole@mit.edu)
igul@mit.edu
Maybe

Gmail status message logger -- It will log your status and those of all of your friends. Doing this is of utmost sociological importance I my intuition tells me. Could do sentiment analysis and correlate w location, school, friends etc. Are we indeed the combo of our 5 closest friends? ~james.wu.jimmy@gmail.com #socio
Current progress of the project:
-really it’s just a node js XMPP server which logs changes in status into a text file
-at the hackathon I’ll be
1. setting up a database
2. setting up a frontend and deploying

then when I’m done I’ll come meet people!
Comments:
11/10/12
james.wu.jimmy@gmail.com
[jcole@mit.edu](mailto:jcole@mit.edu)
Open

[LiveLog <http://jacobsstuff.tpclubs.com/testing/LiveLog/LiveLog.htm](http://jacobsstuff.tpclubs.com/testing/LiveLog/LiveLog.htm)> (goal: evernote + twitter + tag search)  #<->IdeaOverflow
Comments:
11/10/12
[jcole@mit.edu](mailto:jcole@mit.edu)
Open

[WhyIsItAwesome.tk](http://whyisitawesome.tk)
Why is it awesome?

[The key to learning anything is getting into it and having fun. The best way to do this is to hang out with people who are doing so, and the second best way is to read what these people have written! The purpose of this wiki is to help people, especially high school and college students, become inspired to get into doing good things for fun; companion to Good Contests and Activities page on wiki admitsphere.org](http://admitsphere.org/).

Why are the people who are doing this for fun doing it?
Comments:
1/14/12
[jcole@mit.edu](mailto:jcole@mit.edu)
Open

[AdmitSphere.org](http://admitsphere.org/)
[Article on the MIT Admissions Blog](http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/for-applicants)
[You shouldn't have to buy an expensive book or pay an independent college counselor to get real college essays and advice. Through collaboration, we can give everyone access to the inside knowledge they need to write a powerful application, regardless of their financial situation or the quality of their school's college counseling. Browse the repository or Contribute your essays and advice.](http://collegeappswiki.wikispaces.com/Contribute)
Comments:
1/14/12
[jcole@mit.edu](mailto:jcole@mit.edu)
jainp@mit.edu
mmou@mit.edu
neal@nealwu.com
Open

[IfIWentTo.tk (proto](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BeVilW8FDU-4jkQE5eg7w3lxi8MJzBGHN1mHhaqhO6k/edit))#<->AdmitSphere.org
Comments:
1/7/13
[jcole@mit.edu](mailto:jcole@mit.edu)
neal@nealwu.com
Maybe

[ProjectEvolution (For Truonex Hackathon with Hisham!) http://jacobsstuff.tpclubs.com/webtesting/TruonexHackathon/timeline-portfolio/ https://github.com/tmad4000/TruonexHackathon](https://github.com/tmad4000/TruonexHackathon)
1/7/13
[jcole@mit.edu](mailto:jcole@mit.edu)
hbedri@mit.edu
Open

[MIT Docs -- All the collaborative docs organizing the MIT community. #<->Google docs optimized for instant web publishing](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qlmthSsRGf8_1N22Wo3MoyGPG4MAHl9hYSGZTbEQCWM/edit#bookmark=id.n2qfmjcet33p)
- [ThingsYouDidntKnowExistedAtMIT.tk](http://thingsyoudidntknowexistedatmit.tk/)

- [MITHomepages.tk](http://mithomepages.tk/) -- people’s homepages + live projects!
- [WhatShouldIDo.tk](http://whatshouldido.tk/) -- the beginning of an app that suggests what you should do

- IfIWentTo.tk -- inspirational database of ideas saying what people would do if they went to MIT or Harvard or the like
- [HackathonProjects.tk](http://hackathonprojects.tk/) -- collaborative Google doc with really good hackathon project ideas.
- [IdeaOverflow.tk](http://ideaoverflow.tk/) -- database of people’s skills, interests, and emails, and soon to be much more. ~jcole@mit.edu, jinpan@MIT.EDU

1/7/13
[jcole@mit.edu](mailto:jcole@mit.edu)
Open

[InstaDefine.com](http://instadefine.com/) -- instant dictionary done right
11/20/2010
jcole@mit.edu
jainp@mit.edu
Maybe

Add yours here!

[[a]](#cmnt_ref1)this is broken