The Idea Bank
In this class, each student was required to generate an creative idea which has potential for commercialization. Here are their "Mind Maps" (Listed in alphabetic order based on the inventors' last name).
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Social Network for study purpose
- "My idea was to develop a service for the college students, to help them with the academic part, provide service to help them with the study, let them make friends with other students, share ideas, find project teammates. " -by Ning Ding
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A specialized Q&A website
- "My idea is to develop a specialized Q&A website. This website will cater to specific needs of students, staffs and faculty of an institution. I am connecting my need/ gap with the university system. " - by Sumi Singh
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A different way of online bookmarking
- "Online content is in a constantly changing state. That is the nature of the Web and one of its great benefits. Often times, when returning to view content deemed valuable in the past, that content has either been removed, modified or has become inaccessible. I would like to take the idea of bookmarking – that is saving the location of resources on the Web in order to reference them again in the future – and add the ability to maintain a point-in-time copy of that resource for the User of the application. " - by John Weber
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Hurricane Information Center
- "I want to commercialize the web-based product of gathering the important and pertinent information, such as image, video, news) for the preparation and protection before, during or after some disaster. (let me say, hurricanes)." -by Yue Wen
