Free Idea: IndexCloud
I have an idea I would like to throw out there. I think it would be a fun side-project or StartupWeekend project. Granted, it is a feature, not a product (and definitely not a company), but I think there are some verticals that would find it very useful.
IndexCloud Elevator Pitch:
IndexCloud scans a piece of content (say, a semester’s worth of chapters in a text book) and identifies the key topics (not just words). It then creates a clickable “tag cloud” of the topics. When a user clicks on a topic, IndexCloud presents them with links and passages to that topic in the content. IndexCloud would be used by students studying for exams or doing research, publishers looking to give readers a new way to explore their publication (think magazine issues on a tablet), and even large corporations doing analysis on their customer service interactions.
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I am not doing any side projects since all my time goes to Bizen, but I think this would be a fun one and I would love to see someone do it.
I do like the idea. I think this could also be useful for blogs or online news sites. I think identifying the key topics would be the difficult part.
Anyhow, I am starting to build a website(http://www.34ideas.com) where people can post and vote on all sorts of ideas. One category will be startup ideas. I am hoping that other people (like yourself) will be willing to share ideas.
Identifying the key topics isn’t really that hard. I believe Yahoo has an API that does exactly that and there are some open source projects that handle that part as well.