Give me my contacts!

As always, the preface...this might already exist, but here we go

So I was typing an email (GMail) today and normally, I love how it will just show me the email address I'm looking for as I started typing...IF it's a contact of mine.

But why can't it just pull, not so much to cloud the truly relevant names and contact info, but pull the email adds in my extended FB network AND all of my friends.

Import it! You can imp/exp everything else...so why not this?

Search by color, image, font

As always, maybe this exists. And in spite of my blog name, this isn't strictly for the Web. Or Web 2.0 for that matter.

But anyway, so here's the issue. I use colors to sort a document I have that tracks progress with different foundations I'm working with for INeedAPencil.com.

But unlike ctrl F for text, I can't ctrl F for colors to find which ones I need to follow up with (which foundations, that is). Likewise, if I have a big doc where I need to replace all images (last week I was putting together a work manual, i.e. big document, for a different company and we need the logo on every page. but i didn't have the new one yet. so i used the old one as a placeholder in the meantime. granted, i had a header so indeed, all i changed was that..once. but maybe I need to ctrl f for a given image, or all images, and better yet, replace them all at once)?

Does this exist? Can it?

Just a thought

Unlike all other posts.

But I wonder how dense domain registration is. How few people out of all internet users have domains registered out of the billions of registered domains?

Email forwards unite

So email forwards are funny. But the formatting is shit. And usually it's hard to resd ultimately because of all the email addresses mixed in and the alignments. And so your inbox gets cluttered. So what if, with a technology tangentially similar to hitmelater, you could forward the email to a central service like list1@thisservice.com and it will send a properly formatted link to your given list. Also this site would take and display this humorous content in tagged formats on one central site. Central humor.

Wouldn't you rather get an email and follow a link than read a poorly formatted forward?

Needs more development but I like the idea.

facebook blog app

Hopefully this already exists but I'm not sure.

So I'm always logged into my FB, and it would be nice to be able to just blog right there. And my updates would go to my friends, the people who I want to read my posts the most. But my blogger account is separate and blogging seems to be a complete separate part of me.

I should just have a box in my profile that displays my latest post and allows me to upload a new one.

Thoughts?

Reverse phone lookup via FB

Okay, so today being my birthday, I'm getting messages from a lot of people, some of whom I don't have phone numbers for. But chances are, we're FB friends. I know FB has the phonebook application which is really cool and useful. I just used it yesterday to call one of my brother's friends to ask him to do something for my brother's going away party. Superuseful. But what if I could use FB as a yellowpages of sorts...?

Remote Web History

OK this might sound crazy, but so has a lot of other stuff that I've said in my lifetime.

What if you could remotely store your web history to access it from anywhere, anytime? Almost like Digg in that sense, but not really at all. The reason it came up was I was browsing some sites today and I don't have Digg installed on my work comp and I didn't want to bookmark these pages. That's one thing I didn't like about Digg too--bookmarks are major and prominent. You shouldn't have a hundred of them But web history is different. or should be IMO.

SO i was browsing and wish i could just go home and re-access what I was looking at when at work but it was impossible. and will be. that info and those sites are lost...forever!

anyway, the idea certainly needs to be fleshed out more but we'll see what happens in time. and didn't digg evolve from the bookmarks to personal news more? hm.

Rearrange Attachments/Bulk Attachments

So this morning I was sending a student some SAT vocab lists. In my email, I wanted to say that "First, is XYZ list and next is XYZ2 list..." and just typed that out because I always attach after writing. This is because of habit but also because you type your emails and then consider which materials need to be sent out. Do you attach before or after?

Well, some times it's convenient to be able to just hit an up arrow or a down arrow to make the order of your attachments correspond with how you describe them in the email.

Some files are easier to find than others, so when I need to send a file, I want to be able to just grab what I want to send when I see it. I come across some files before others and it can be annoying to have to go to really different places to pick files out. So why not be able to pick multiple items and upload them simultaneously? I know there's programs that let you do this but not for email attachments.

If GMail had this, it'd be great. Is there some way out there already? A clever workaround to make this happen?

Quality Search Engine

OK so apparently search engines are a hot topic right now what with the Cuil flop and talks about searching different via different media than text.

Well I want a quality-based search engine. Hear me out. Google works on page rankings through link-backs, 'relevance' and page popularity...basically.

But when I'm searching for advice about my Mac for example, I have to visit 10 different pages to get a good answer about how to free up space or make it run better. Sure, the pages brought back are popular but when did that become synonymous with quality? Moreover, with rankings working like this, popularity is just self-perpetuating. So if you can optimize and use SEO properly, work your meta tags, etc. on a subject early enough, it could be yours to rule right?

There's plenty of page/story rating services from Digg to Reddit, etc. but not for web pages as they correspond to what you search for. So for example, if I search 'mac cool' I (and a bunch of other people) might get pages about how Apple has a cool culture around it, etc. and then click on at least the first page to get a better sense for what these results have returned. This just makes this type of page rise in popularity for a topic none of us care about with these search words. Instead, I would vote down such a page and click/vote up pages that tell me how to make my Mac stop heating up and turning out its ridiculously loud fan.

I don't know. Maybe this is already being done or has been dismissed. Maybe there's issues with fraud/manipulation. I don't have much experience with building or any real understanding of how the technology behind search engines work, so please, enlighten me.