5 Google Apps Ideas to Steal
I think Google Wave rocks. During their beta, I’ve noticed they’ve peeled back some features and added a great many others*. Thinking about iGoogle and Wave, I’m absolutely convinced that there are number of lightweight applications that can be developed to leverage the base values of these incredible platforms. Steal Away!
- Stock Portfolio Sharing – Users create their own stock portfolios and share them with their friends and peers. This function – similar to Twitter lists helps the everyday investor compete against the big trading machines.
- Shared Portfolio Wave Application – Users get to collaborate on a shared portfolio. Augmented by stock tickers, news widgets, etc.
- Public Wavelets – A user gets to contribute to a wave on a platform that sits outside of Google Wave. This application aggregates other asynchronous collaboration sites as well as sync’d sites like Twitter.
- Live Movie Feedback – Users see movie feedback as people are leaving the theatre – SMSing and Tweeting their feedback. The movie times widget displays that real time feedback for your zip code as well as the demographics behind them.
- Personal Network Link Stats - Google appears to be a service for augmented reality data (mapping, cloud apps support) but not much of a core platform itself. What if there was a Google app that displayed reading and link launch demographics for people in your network?
This is my second “Steal” post. I’d love to hear if you take one of these up. If you do, think Friends and Family stock or free t-shirts…
(*I was hoping that wavelets could be created from words, sentences and paragraphs but it appears that they removed the feature from original authors. Let’s hope this gets put back in. I reply to my own ideas – frequently!)
