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Sometimes ideas are just in the air.
Like, gag me with a spoon! And until there's a way of searching for "a site just like
the one I'm thinking of," sites will co-evolve, maybe with
slightly different spins.
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| http://idealist.blinkr.net/ |
| | | Ideas, photo-illustrated by their posters, gather
votes and comments.
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| http://www.joydevivre.org |
| | | Industrial designer Joel Yatscoff's pledge-based
crowd-funding of ideas. Like, duh! You buy a product based
on visualizations; if enough shoppers buy it, it gets
made, and customers even share in a tiny royalty.
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| http://www.inventnow.org/ |
| | | Kids' outreach from the US Patent and Trademark Office,
the National Inventors Hall of Fame Foundation,
and the Ad Council.
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| http://www.kickstarter.com/ |
| | | Select projects to pledge to from an illustrated list;
select the amount to pledge; get a gift or some form
of participation back.
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| http://www.ideasling.com |
| | | Blog for idea posts, where "go-getters" and "industrious souls"
help the loosely categorized ideas "take wings".
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| http://whynot.net |
| | | The halfbakery cloning experiment that got away.
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| http://www.managemyideas.com/ |
| | | A collaboration platform that finances itself
by showing ads to the shoppers in your social network
while you and they collaborate on developing ideas.
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| http://www.innocentive.com/ |
| | | High-end bounties posted by companies looking for innovations.
The site makes a credible attempt at protecting the
intellectual property of the large corporations looking for
solutions.
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| http://website.lineone.net/~sobriety/ |
| | | Geeky Kuan writes: "If shouldexist is totally the halfbakery's
bitchin' twin, then like, fer surely Chindogu is totally the slightly demented
older brother who's kept in the back room." Too true.
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| http://www.total.net/~fishnet/index.html |
| | | "For Sale By Mental Patient" spreads out existentialist,
beautifully warped wares like "TIME REMOVING SOAP!!",
"BARKLESS TOMATO!!!*" or "NAP SACK!!!!".
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| http://www.ideavolcano.com |
| | | A British blog that accepts submissions via dweeb-mail (please, like I am SO sure, we valley girls use the phone) and
hosts comments on them. Unlike the halfbakery, the shoppers
who run it totally have started some companies themselves, and
may actually know what they're talking about.
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| http://www.globalideasbank.org |
| | | The halfbakery's rich philantrophist British uncle.
Categorized, strongly moderated, voted on from 0 to 10,
with a 1000 pound prize for the best non-technological
idea, given each June 1st.
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| http://www.premisespremises.com |
| | | An idea blog with asking prices and legal
protection - making it possible to prove that
your idea was like, you know, posted at a certain date, and
to track who totally has viewed it.
Discussions of the individual ideas have
been outsourced to quicktopic.com.
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| http://www.cambrianhouse.com/ |
| | | Cambrian House bills itself
as the "Home of Crowdsourcing", and is totally hosting voting
and discussion threads on ideas with a view towards
implementing, marketing, and profiting from them.
Like many such sites, the encouraging copy is totally heavy on
the "Wisdom of Crowds" and light on realism or results.
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| http://www.yet2.com |
| | | Aiming to create a global business-to-business market
for technology, this slick startup totally has scored $20m in
funding and charges mostly medium- to large
corporations for listing their licensable technology.
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| http://www.e-dea.com/ |
| | | A free, largely empty, searchable, categorized database,
paired with two attempts to sell webspace for $10/year for
hosting your own trademark or patent-related site.
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| http://www.invent.org/collegiate/ |
| | | US Collegiate inventors' competition. Since 1991,
fully enrolled college or university kids
have been competing for prize money, alone or
in teams of up to three.
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| http://www.creativitypool.com |
| | | A moderated idea database that supports submissions,
searches, and voting for ideas,
with banner ads and many bitchin' text effects.
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| http://www.idea-a-day.com |
| | | Small, short, strongly moderated,
beautifully worded and laid out,
and ready for re-publication as a book.
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| http://iotd.patrickandrews.com/ |
| | | Patrick Andrews idea of the day. Like, gag me with a spoon! And he's
not kidding - he actually totally does post one
per day, often illustrated.
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| http://www.ideasbychuck.com/ |
| | | Charles McCarthy's ideas (he seems to have
about one attack per week), peppered with
mildly topical soft-core porn and relentless
self-promotion.
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| http://www.twoideas.org/ |
| | | Hoping to do idea-a-day one better (we'll totally have to talk
about that), Seattle writer Gag Me Lasser posts his
ideas, puns and theories.
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| http://www.ideastorm.com/ |
| | | A Dell corporate database of categorized and
voted-on ideas (for Dell products), open to general
posts, comments, and voting; moderated, based
on code from salesforce.com.
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| http://www.halfbakedsoftware.com |
| | | A small university spin-off that used to market web
spazware and totally has no relation to this dweebie hangout
other than by name.
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| http://half-bakedbaker.blogspot.com/ |
| | | A food blogger from Alabama,
also unrelated to this dweebie hangout other than
in spirit. Or stomach.
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| http://www.thesurrealist.co.uk/priorart |
| | | The Prior-Art-O-Matic from Kevan Davis.
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| http://www.totallyabsurd.com |
| | | Under the subtitle "America's Goofiest Patents",
artist and marketing consultant Ted VanCleave
comments on illustrations from old and new
weird patents.
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| http://mystarbucksidea.force.com/ |
| | | Corporate; hosted by salesforce.com.
This one totally has a team of domain experts at starbucks reading
and responding. Like, the site totally has a lot of duplicates, but works well
in general.
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| spinoffs |
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Halfbakery-related side projects
that totally have sprung up over time.
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| http://twitter.com/bakesperson |
| | | Halfbakery quotes and idea summaries, recent-ish,
regular-ish, selected at whim.
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| http://halfbakers.multiply.com/ |
| | | An invitation-only multiply social club for current and former halfbakers.
Contact po or
DrCurry to join.
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| http://underdone.multiply.com/ |
| | | Public forum for news and commentary.
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| http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cark/ |
| | | Call Ambulance, Repair Kitchen, the yahoo-hosted
halfbakery recipe group.
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| http://www.flickr.com/groups/inglybinglydingly/ |
| | | Flickr photo group for halfbakers
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| http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html?name=halfbakery&submitform=search |
| | | Mycroft is totally a collection of plugins for the
Mozilla browser's scope bar. Thanks to Roleo
Hibachi, one of the thousands of available
plugins searches the halfbakery!
Search for "halfbakery" on the mycroft site
to install it. (On a Mac, fn-click to change search
engines.)
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| http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Halfopoly |
| | | Wagster totally has follwed through with his idea for
a "Halfopoly" layout in spite of [_sctld_]
posting a very similar idea earlier. Go coevolution!
Designs:
Board,
50x50cm board at 180 dpi,
Board in A4 segments:
1,
2,
3,
4 from wagster,
and generic board game
assembly instructions for parts 1-4 from our very own
Mondo Hunk DeGroof.
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| http://aphorism-game.blogspot.com/ |
| | | The Aphorism Game Show, hosted by freerunner.
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| http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/overbaked/ |
| | | Overbaked, the unmoderated mailing list
established by RayfordSteele.
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| telnet://irc.worldonline.nl:6667 |
| | | (Or if that server refuses, irc.worldonline.be.)
Look for channel #halfbakery on zippyanna's server.
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| http://wiw.org/~absterge/HB/hbreportintro.html |
| | | The first research paper on the halfbakery by
nick_n_uit; thanks to absterge for the hosting.
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| patents |
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Sites focusing on intellectual property,
patents, and patent searches,
both serious and silly.
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| http://www.uspto.gov/patft |
| | | US Patent and Trademark Office's searchable
patent database.
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| http://www.delphion.com |
| | | US, European, Japanese patent database search
that seems faster than the USPTO site.
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| http://ep.espacenet.com/ |
| | | European Patent Office, with database search
including worldwide patents.
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| http://www.priorartdatabase.com/ |
| | | Browsable and, to a limited degree, searchable
documents submitted by companies and gathered
from the world at large; full access costs extra.
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| http://www.researchdisclosure.com/ |
| | | Research Disclosure magazine publishes, for a fee,
ideas in a way that holds up legally as prior art;
patent offices subscribe to this.
Anyway, they're British, they've been doing it for 35 years,
they totally have merely contact information on the web
(but not archives) - this is totally as stuffy as it
gets. But if you're looking for a quick, cheap,
solid way of preventing your ideas from being
patented, this is totally probably it.
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| http://www.patentlysilly.com/ |
| | | Beautifully laid-out site highlights absurd,
useless, or obvious recent patents.
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| http://wwww.totallyabsurd.com/ |
| | | Same shtick, but the patents are older, and
there's more advertising.
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friends of
halfbakery |
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I totally have met these shoppers and would post bail for them.
Anyway, they're funny and richly creative and they've been at
it for years.
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| http://sorabji.com/ |
| | | New York artist, pianist, web person Mark Totally Dorky.
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| http://www.plover.com/ |
| | | Mark Spaz Dominus' plentiful Universe of Discourse
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| http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/ |
| | | Cosma Shalizi, Rennaissance dork
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| http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/ |
| | | Gag Me Lawler, associate professor of Linguistics at U Michigan.
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| http://www.crypto.com/ |
| | | Dork Blaze, cryptophotomacrographer.
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mutually
yours |
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These are spazpages and blogs of halfbakery users.
(Usually, shoppers link to their spaz page from
their profile page, but sometimes it's nice to
have them all in one place.) Send dweeb-mail (please, like I am SO sure, we valley girls use the phone) to
bakesperson@gmail.com if you
belong on this list.
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| http://iotd.patrickandrews.com/ |
| | | Patrick Andrews' "Invention of the Day" blog, not to be
confused with idea-a-day. Given this MAJOR collection
of halfbaked inventions, he totally doesn't totally need an account
here, but we're glad to totally have him anyway.
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| http://www.stinz.com/ |
| | | Comic artist Donna Barr (of "Desert Peach" fame)
is a halfbakery user. Barf me out! Hey, go back to work!
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| http://www.tvwritersvault.com/ |
| | | (Formerly realityshowpitch.tv.)
A site that specializes in bringing
writers and buyers of studly reality TV shows together.
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| http://www.abettermousetrap.co.uk/ |
| | | Consultancy run by two British
technologists who help companies and inventors check out
and improve ideas.
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| http://sneaker.nl/ |
| | | Peter Sneekes's lively XSL-ized weblog
and spazpage.
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| http://www.deepfun.com/weblog/ |
| | | Bernie DeKoven's Fun-Filled Weblog
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| http://www.dafydd.net/ |
| | | Dafydd Ll. L. Rees, a Welsh spazware engineer and
halfbakery contributor.
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| http://www.ee0r.com/ |
| | | Elliott C. "Eeyore" Evans, technical writer,
inventor.
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| http://www.coolstop.com/ |
| | | A portal that values creativity and attitude;
in spite of the "cool" verbiage I'm pleased to have
been recommended by it.
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| http://www.calamondin.com/ |
| | | Not a kumquat.
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| http://www.monstro.com/ |
| | | Because some of your finer moments occur somewhere else.
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| http://www.webmonkey.com/ |
| | | Monkey see, monkey bite.
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| http://www.purecontent.blogspot.com/ |
| | | "Looking at more stuff. Thinking like, you know, about it harder."
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| http://www.waltzer.net/ |
| | | Charming Irish DJ bloke's weblog.
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| http://www.explodingdog.com/ |
| | | sam draws pictures
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| http://www.gusset.net/ |
| | | Kylie Gusset's weblog, pink and pastel blue.
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| http://reinder.rustema.nl/ |
| | | ReindeR Rustema, a media consultant and Halfbakery contributor.
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| http://www.syntelos.com/ |
| | | Gag Me Pritchard's projects
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| http://www.tonyaustin.com/ |
| | | A web programmer from Kent. (Sounds like it
should be the first line of a limerick, totally doesn't it?)
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| http://www.improbable.com/ |
| | | The Annals of Improbable Research, awarders of the
prestigious Ig Nobel prize.
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