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Joined 3 years ago on Feb 15, 2009
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Started 6 projects, 3 are complete.
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I'm one of the two creators behind Clusterify. You can find my personal site at http://www.fsavard.com.

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The Singularity

Oh wait I still have an old copy of FrontPage 98 lying around. Give me a sec, hacking it to, err, push changes directly to my visual cortex.


Ninjafy!

Obviously a team will come and build piratify.com, and when you use their bookmarklet, they start fighting off the ninjas. So better build good defense mechanisms in there! (This not existing is a saddening deficiency of the internets)


Ninjafy!

Why not do an abstract version of this thing? I visited cornify.com, and as sweet and comforting as having sparkling ponies and friendly rainbows all around is in itself, I think we could reach for higher skies (as long as we assume ninjas can fly, which they do, of course... just ask Google for flying ninjas, they're all over the place).

We could simply, server-side, take in a list of image URLs, give it a name, and give back a piece of code to the list submitter (a piece of JS to execute in a onclick or smtg). When the bookmarklet is loaded, it loads the images like cornify.

That'd take like what, 30 minutes? And the web would surely be a better place to raise kids afterwards!


Tinyurl but for content

That idea is very cool, and could be real useful. Btw a site like this, but not geared towards news, does exist: http://synop.it/ .

I could be real simple, too: just a form with Markdown, a URL (to be hashed). Why not do this with Django?

(Btw it doesn't need to take 24 hours, we could get a prototype running in 2 or 3 hours)


Word cloud from any page, using jQuery

Thanks for the feedback: we'll add ability to edit comments.


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Well it isn't exactly a small project :P
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Custom, on the fly page landmarks
Estimated time: 1 hour
A 30 minutes project. We simply create a floating landmark list (fixed, semi-transparent), and we can create landmarks (named anchors) on a page: no fuss, we just use absolute positioning in body. Useful when reading long documents. Loaded through a ...
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A 30 minutes project. We just create a bookmarklet which loads a piece of JavaScript to extract text in text nodes on the page, build a frequency dictionary and output a word cloud with that. It's mostly for fun, but ...
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I use spaced repetition software (Mnemosyne) to memorize information. One key type of question is with blanks: "The American Civil War took place from ____ to ____", for example. One source for information-to-be-questions is, of course, the web. What I'd ...
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Nottodo answers a simple question: what should I do now? Let's say you have to do a paper on March 20 that will take about six hours? But you will also have to take test on March 19 that will ...
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I find myself clicking on all of the tags when I bookmark something. I would like a userscript to automatically fill them in. This is a quickie. Here is the etherpad for this one: http://etherpad.com/MFlEqjEStX
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Tinyurl but for content
Estimated time: 24 hours
A tl;dr service: map urls to short (2-4 sentence) descriptions of the concepts on that page. Summaries would be creatable/editable with wiki-like semantics. If I'm already skimming 10-20 urls a day, why not let me skim 100 summaries only to ...
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Ever wanted to have a widget on your website, that simply by clicking would immediately cause a ninja to pop out of the shadows? Another click might have a ninja descend from the search bar, and a third still might ...