User:The Transhumanist/Sandbox17

Reading list

 * Revenue model
 * Democratization of knowledge
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Research the following

 * Linus Pauling
 * Pauling patent for heart disease cure
 * Why did he patent it?
 * He must have known he couldn't get or afford FDA approval, so why patent?
 * Did he use it as an avenue to publish his research and theories?
 * Thomas Edison
 * Thomas Edison sleep techniques
 * Sleeping in awkward or uncomfortable positions
 * Holding iron bars in his hands, which woke him up when they fell out of his hands and hit the floor while he slept in a chair with his arms dangling to the sides
 * Thomas Edison reading speed
 * Thomas Edison's short hand
 * Could he actually write 50 words per minute?
 * Antonio de Marco Magliabechi
 * Reading speed

Markets and niches

 * Publishing (direct sales, subscription, ad revenue)
 * Content provision (ad revenue, subscription, direct sales)
 * Blog
 * Library
 * Information brokering
 * Software publishing (licensing)
 * Mind mapping (view)
 * Word processing
 * PIM
 * Outliner
 * Automated writing, and writing assistance
 * Brainstorming niche
 * intelligent questions
 * structured questions
 * prompts
 * random word association (to your idea)
 * Research assistance
 * Track down sources
 * Track down references
 * Node processing
 * Diaries
 * Journal
 * Planning
 * Semantic Web
 * RDF (formalizing meta-data)
 * RDF (formalizing meta-data)


 * Killer app
 * Generational improvement
 * Wikipedia plus
 * Combining taxonomies and search engines
 * Combining taxonomies and search engines