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[evilswan]

http://willgrant.org/idea-dump/

[icebraining]

Twitbook already exists (http://www.tweetbookz.com/)

[evilswan → icebraining]

Very nice - though some of the content integration mentioned would be a nice option.

[icebraining]

The license plate wiki is interesting, but I fear the privacy implications. Sure, it may be legal, but it would still make me uneasy. I can see someone e.g. escaping their abusive spouse only to have their position given away online.

[nodata → icebraining]

Or people outright lying for revenge. Or bad drivers blaming other people.

[evilswan → nodata]

Wouldn't the wiki-community-spirit help prevent this kind of thing? Guess not, it'd be one person vs another.

[icebraining → evilswan]

This would only work if people were also incentivized to post good stuff about you; for example on Ebay, even if you have a dick downvoting you unjustly, the amount of good feedback will probably make it up. But here, there's none of that.

[rfreytag]

The Half-Bakery has been around for years: http://www.halfbakery.com/

[beaumartinez]

> *A wiki-powered site where vehicle registration plates are the subdomains, for example, HY10AGV.carwiki.whatever.

Make sure the subdomains explicitly include the country somewhere too—HY10AGV.us.carwiki.whatever.

[rachelbythebay → beaumartinez]

At least for the US, you'd need a state separator as well, since otherwise you will have collisions. Or is that the point?

[evilswan → rachelbythebay]

Are identical plates duplicated across states - if so, then yep, a state too! (us-ca, us-ny, etc would work)

[syedkarim → evilswan]

This is a solid idea. An open version of Carfax/AutoCheck. And kind of like the way that Redfin keeps track of historical pricing information on real estate. Platewire is somewhat related (http://platewire.com/), but focuses on the driver instead of the vehicle.