Drawing software that Just Draws - pen tool, no color, no shapes
    MSPaint for OSX

ThreadsML to work for up to parents at creation time of child

Something about XMLQuery and instant web services (bloxsom web services)

GeoLocation that reminds you want you wanted to do when you get somewhere

Personal surfing tracker that captures the whole page
    Agent Frank

Way to meet people etc without going to portals

Cross-platform calendaring
    (maybe iCal will do this one day?)

A Better Word Processor
    should view the writing process as mapping from stream of consciousness to structure

Magic Mapping Software
    represents reality the way he wants it to

interactive SVG editor for shared drawing

visual aggregation of incoming info on large displays (lots of data feeds) - "Visual RSS"

wireless laptop tool that builds wireless coverage maps on the fly
     wigle.net

reprogram his thermostat

free MTV

LDAP editor

fast blogging/mail/writing/etc device for conferences
    iBook! PowerBook is faster!

way to manage data between systems?

seamless switching between modes?  wiki, chat, hydra, weblogs
  "widen the OSX services pipe" [Exactly!]

"super-proxy"
2nd level news "filtering" via reputation or other peer-group filtering (which 10 blogs out of my 120 ones subscribed to should I read now)

wifi hotspot thing
    Avaya

always-on digital metadata for printed books
  "a book is a place I can share"

hydra allows you to edit text in realtime.  You output the text, but it takes the color coding away. Do something to keep the color coding when the document is saved.

audio tour guide to subscribe to Clay's cult while walking through a physical place

generalized web service "critical mass" - enter a Challenge (eg pledge drive), get participants, lockin
when you have sufficient participation
    Alex Jacobson is working on this

Want system for email that ...[missed this part]  meet girls.

private email ISP without using permanent email address
    MailBlocks
    TMDS
    SpamEx

recognition of solution underway for a LazyWeb idea

intelligent RDF editor that knows about tags and structure

quick topic organization on personal level - bookmarks on steroids - wiki that ties into google

something to handle reply mail with deeply-embedded quotes

intelligent presence management system that exposes contact info, forwards phone calls, location-based info
    SMS + IM?

download entire blogosphere and push out via BitTorrent, index it locally
    Internet Archive is doing something for this?

find stuff - atoms - misplaced - RFID possessions

3d simulation linking with restaurant reviews, VR browse neighborhood, talk to other visitors online

more purple numbering - granular reference to document detail

P2P sharing of family photos
    Greg Elin

Google for his laptop - mail plus files
    find.com

localized ebay with rfid tags of 2nd-hand goods locating the items in the store

"enfish" went bust - local data indexer

private weblog tool
    make some items public, others private
    most blogging tools can do this, somehow

auto-mathematica

dwim shell for unix

system blog - all apps should put entries there in human-readable form
    different from syslog - wants a subset of syslog

Publish option on anything that he can take a photo with

scan books at B&N then order them from amazon

get his wife on IM

automatically film himself over time, with geolocation and index the whole thing

combine email, surfing, etc in one place

encapsulate online communities so they can interop

every web page that might have something interesting should be subscribable

have google remember what you've read before

sync ical and text

turn ibook into captive portal

calculate-your-consumption web portal

anti-photo software, invisibility shield

filter for newsreader

some way to get business expenses online without manual entry

easy tool for categorizing very large photobases

new audiobook format for the text and image to be shown simultaneously

spamassassin isn't good enough - play asteroids with your spam!

extra themes from text, extract common threads, identify arguments, rebuttals

multithreaded emacs - Real GC

web-based front-end on usenet?

semantic web

personalized blogdex
    newsmonster

make suggestions for your writing by analyzing other people's writing

client-side wiki editing tools, better editing tools than raw wiki

self-driving car

mini-app that sets all other apps to same project folder (OSX)

mini-app that blocks IM at certain times, while using certain apps

render a web page as a thumbnail - visual representation of a page that can be manipulated
    web service: given a URL, generate a little JPEG

tie spam recognition to a reputation system

micropayments

digital identity

view who is visiting your web site and what they're reading; be able to intrude with IM

"invisible" login mode?

what were the sources for a particular news article (including newspapers)

bot that polls recent articles on major online newspapers; observe rewriting

Darwin streaming video server that can handle multiple formats and allow for identification of
specific points in the video stream

Google news - search by locale and topic

Scrolling assistants with better visual cues

permission-based spidering - robots.txt

low-cost barcode reader with link to amazon
    scanby.com

software barcode scanner to work with any digital camera

amazon data into the semantic web

automatically updating apache module robot blacklist

common storage of bookmarks, with annotation; sharing the annotations

tivo for car radio

virus checker for spyware - AdAware

download internet to the car, text-to-speech while driving

assign exif data to scanned images

read newsfeeds aloud

plan-ahead phone calls to avoid phone mail

babelfish for uncommon languages

capture info from incoming emails into vcard format

rotating banner to-do lists - replace ad banners with private content

keyboard shortcut to flag a page as interesting, for local indexing

web service that rss reader can use to do reputation with - newsmonster

remember mozilla state across crashes

"real easy" local system backup