- Earthlings: A stunning video about speciside
- www.ted.com - Think of it as Discovery's best in a 20 minutes speech.
- A cellphone feature so that you don't get called by mistake
- FreeCycle a project to give what you don't need
- FreeCycle's equivalent for books: BookMooch
- Atomic OS a web operating system
- Teach Programming Principles, Not "Tools and Tips"
- Getting Things Done methodology
- Find cures for diseases here, by using your idle CPU
- Sites prevent automatic registration using a box with crossed small letters. Use images instead: the user should select which image is a cat from 10 images. It's way more efficient.
- Use of bicycles instead of cars
- National Priorities for Romania: "National Priorities Project analyzes and clarifies federal data so that people can understand and influence how their tax dollars are spent."
- The ideea that developers should work on existing tools instead of reinventing the wheel (e.g. Why have 200 Linux distributions with 20 active developers when you can have 20 Linux distributions with 4000 active developers)
- Time Machine - Ubuntu version: TimeVault or even Dirvish
- A way to organize photos
- Backup and encryption for any online tool: I'd like a way to backup Google Pages, my emails (not by fetching via pop), my blog. Also emails should be encrypted and not readable by the mail provider.
- OpenID