When I was at Parc I suggested some ideas. This is the deck of those ideas. Kind of interesting from a historical perspective. I'm surprised I recommended they get an office downtown.

1. 10 Pieces
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Aug 18 2011
Friday, August 19, 2011

2. Smart F⨀⨀d
(This is a project we are doing effectively)
A simple smart restaurant recommender service
Scores restaurants based on your profile over time
Aggregate activity from foursquare and other services
May allow vendors to update their menu and hours
May provide lead generation to venders
May filter by health and wellness or other criteria
Friday, August 19, 2011

3. Smart & Mobile Broker
(This is an extract of a technology we have)
A public API on the web for matching merchants and mobile consumers
Predictive analytics based
Advertisers supply profile activity over time ( they negotiate terms )
Merchants and advertisers can broker transactions
Demonstrate better fulfillment than keyword advertising
‘Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable...’
Friday, August 19, 2011

4. Life Coach
(Simply a standalone riff on our existing work with Ford)
Provide counsel on personal life choices vis a vis work
Career, benefits, retirement, financial etcetera
Fueled by personal profile data and comparative analysis
Turnkey standalone service that small and large businesses
could use.
Friday, August 19, 2011

5. Harlequin
(We could play both sides of the pattern recognition issue)
Privacy cloaking service to obscure digital shadow
Generate pseudo anonymous activity that appears real
Muddy social graphs so that profiles cannot be clustered
A profile consists of traces, checkins, peers, any activity
Accept real profiles as input and masquerade on demand
Friday, August 19, 2011

6. Image DNS
(This is something I’ve wanted to do for years)
Image in live video stream lookup service
Returns an URL or metadata associated with an image
Public API allows people to publish images to server
Pay to be the first return on a specific image
Supplant QRCodes
Provide a consumer facing retail app for mobile devices
Friday, August 19, 2011

7. Storytellr
(I believe there is a market for this piece of our remote servicing app)
Consumer facing web app to build 2d animated sequences
Overlay on top of youtube or other existing video sites
May be used for entertainment and or tutorial purposes
Multiplayer support for simultaneous authoring
Popularize a new media type
Possibly offer 3d with image tracking as a rev 2
Must be open source in part since the client is javascript
I would like this myself to help me figure out how to fix my car
Friday, August 19, 2011

8. Jam
(This is a business - similar to Jive and the like)
Fast web based real time messaging API for web apps
Manage user identity and sessions
Manage room creation, joining, detaching
Manage messaging between rooms
Middleware tier application for third party vendors
Friday, August 19, 2011

9. Frendar
(This is simply something I’ve always wanted)
A heat map of friend like places
See your life contrail
See where your friends are right now
See where friend like people typically hang out
Select a person or topic to view from as a lens
Friday, August 19, 2011

10. Bodycode
(This is something I would like to use)
A gestural interface for working with digital objects
In a sense phase 2 of the Parc work in inventing the GUI.
Revolutionize - once again - how we work with computers
Create healthier workers by improved HCI
Use for building and arranging work that has any kind of spatial
metaphor - programming, browsing the web, building presentations
Friday, August 19, 2011

11. Indoor Navigation
(I see this as low hanging fruit and an enabling technology)
Uses image based tracking to do indoor navigation
Low cost licensing terms to encourage third party adoption
Friday, August 19, 2011

12. PARC Downtown
Finding ways to foster high energy participation in PARC
High velocity code sprints and ship to market early for feedback
No middlemen in terms of licensing deals, partners, roadblocks
Connect PARC to the real world better; better market vision
Let people take, use and license PARC technology
Provide a roof over young entrepreneurs heads and support
They self fund or we partner fund with local risk takers
Friday, August 19, 2011