dwiel.net: (wiki) Axpress.PossibleUseCases

What is a good MVP/demo that I could run:

freebase queries
general unit math
other web apis (time, weather, movie times)
a lot of what I would like to be able to have axpress do is to structure the unstructured web. That will not likely be the MVP
interface with people (if the computer can't do it)

Open Source it, make it public, or use it for own purposes?

better memory. instead of writing something to a wiki, I could just record coversation or tell it things and then ask about it later.

general data manipulation tool:

mongodb{...}
  find({"controller" : "houses", "action" : "show"}, {"request_time" : 1, "runtime" : 1}
read translate
  data_points[x] = request_time
  data_points[y] = runtime
  graph[data] = data_points
  graph[image] = _png

Trust Network controlled experience. You could let your friend use this system, and you would tweak it to make it better for them. I say, I prefer this private torrent tracker, and friends who trust me automatically 'listen' and adjust their interfaces (the music player/downloader) they use accordingly in the background.

understanding law. Have it read some text and then answer questions about it.
'search' engine
- affiliate advertising
- advertising for other paid services
- could degrade answers which benefit corporations and ask for payment to not do that
- allow users to trade CPU cycles for free use of the service
personal virtual assistant
- pay for some questions to be answered ...
- users choose a pay level, providers choose a pay level
  - users paying at least the required pay level set by providers get to use that provider
  - if a provider is set at the $5 level, they get n/m * $5 where n is the number of searches used by their language, and m is the number of searches that user made in that month ... I think this adds up.
  - maybe people could also choose to purchase from just a single provider ... well the could do that, but then they would have to keep track of which providers they have paid for.
- users pay for the enabling of each app. If their query requires a paid app, then they are asked if they want to purchase it ...
- could allow users to see how much the query will cost and decide if they'd like to pay for it
automated email customer support
- sell the product as a service which allows companies to setup automated customer service responses
sell the service that hooks into gmail or other stable accounts. Don't allow a bunch of free accounts to access the same gmail account with free trials
sell service which taken lots of user input (in the form of text) parses it and allows you to query it
minimize costs so I don't need much money to keep it going. How much would that work out to? If one CPU instance could host 1 queries per second -> $0.00001 per search income to cover it.

So far mostly from a late night brainstorm with Ben Kovitz:

more general answers like wolfram alpha
- some examples see Commands
price comparisons
- search over structured db
- over ebay/craigslist (which is partially structured)
  - add more data to listings and make custom tables
    - looking for computers, auto detect the processor type and look it up in benchmark test
chemical engineer
- search over structured db
- search for material properties
travel agent
- search over structured db
business analysts
journalists
wikipedia editors
google image search
genomics queries
proteomics
babel fish - machine translation
city planners
fact checkers
automated cha-cha
airline routing
draw a chinese character, look it up
number-theory searches
find local business
theorem proving
mutual fund managers
facebook: find people w/ mutual interests, location, etc
telephone companies: "stovepipe systems"
medical-images: cut across databases
ask at burning man!

It seems that a lot of these are a matter of collecting the data more than querying over the database. Though, it could potentially be fliped over and used to mine the web...

It seems some basic cases are: Commands, though many of them also require somewhat of a semantic desktop.

ask at burning man!