Two disappointing experiences with Bank of America.  I started an account recently and nearly every day a new fee has popped up. I called Friday and Monday to address the issue.  There is no email support or live chat support for business checking.  I call in at 9:40am and get a message that the office is closed and to call back after 7am.  Super lame.

plate@car.gov Make all car license plates have an email address. People could warn you before the tow truck, if you parked your car in a bad place. If you’re license is ABH-2342 then your email alias would be ABH-2342@car.gov .  And everyone would just know that. Public problem app.  I wish there was an app to report problems and crimes to relevant government agencies.  It would include some automatic reporting, e.g. your phone automatically reports a pothole when you hit one while driving.  The driver won’t need to pull over and manually report.  The smartphone would just know that a sudden jolt along a road means pothole and report it.   Kidnap app. Make a facial recognition app to that was connected to a database of known missing persons so if people saw something suspicious they could take a pic and check if the person was known missing.   My recent experience with the Overnight Service of USPS further drives the need for an app for tracking the interaction with a comp

Can we turn Google Chrome into the Ultimate Data Browser? Could we turn Chrome into a Data Management App Development Studio?   Chrome already understands so many data formats and file formats that most ETL tools don’t even think to venture into. It already is the fastest renderer of pdf, plain text, log files, most image formats. Chrome already can pretty print xml, local file system, ftp folders. It renders plain text super fast, faster and better than Notepad.  Chrome renders from local filesystem as fast as any local native app or faster.  It’s faster at pdf rendering than Adobe. The search feature is simple and super responsive.   Why use Chrome over some standard studio like Eclipse? Because Eclipse is slow and clunky and it feels like it was designed by Congress. What we could add?   Some kind of intuition where you open of up tabs to different resources and it knows what you want and creates a synthesis of tabs. Examples: Tab1 is a list of options stored in googl

Overnight service results in 3 days late service. And further below is what you see when trying to file a complaint. When I called about the package hold time was between 40 min and 60 min. My recent experience with the Overnight Service of USPS further drives the need for an app for tracking the interaction with a company or government agency.  We need something that makes it easy to capture all the emails, chat windows, phone calls sitting on hold, broken email links, broken or just shitty web forms, tweets.   We need an app that makes it easy to also publish to a public site for accountability including the time it takes for a company, agency to resolve the issue. It will need: Datamasking features blackout email addresses,  HIPAA data, financial data specifics, phone numbers, ssns etc.   The public site will be have stats on different companies.  Awards for fastest resolver of issues. Rankings.

By chapter 4 of this book it felt like it was reading my mind.