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[Facebook : What features do you wish Facebook had?](http://www.quora.com/Facebook-1/What-features-do-you-wish-Facebook-had)
TL;DR: I think that "facebook for project sharing" is one of the most important "low-hanging fruit" projects yet to be done currently in existence.
[Feature request: A way to share projects a la MinimalistHomepages.tk - Google Drive](http://minimalisthomepages.tk/)
It amazes me how many (even technical) people I know don't have a homepage, often because they feel a need to make it fancy, and they miss out on the incredible life-organizing capacity creating a centerpoint for oneself on the web can have.
[I think facebook is poised to solve part of this problem by lowering the barrier for people to make these homepages tremendously. Indeed If I were Mark Zuckerberg, I would actually recenter facebook around project sharing in a structured way. Imagine if right next to the photos link was a box where you could input all the projects/writings/art/music -- everything -- you've created that you're proud of in the format ofMinimalistHomepages.tk](http://minimalisthomepages.tk/) . It would help me gain a sense of what everyone I care about's doing. It would help people self-reflect and take pride in their work. It would be amazing to explore from an anthropological perspective: what's everyone at MIT doing? Everyone at Stanford? Everyone in America? Everyone in Iran?
Most importantly, this information would enable the matching of people who are working on synergistic projects, which I believe is a tremendous step towards creating a world where we all work together to meet our collective goals.
Eleanor Roosevelt remarked that "Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people." The internet is full of tools to help discuss people and events, but lacks a real medium for discussing ideas and sharing projects (realized ideas), which is what I care to talk about most of all. We need to go about resolving this deficiency, and I believe Facebook could lay the groundwork for doing so tomorrow.
Poke me if you have further questions as to how this could be done, at jcole@mit.edu.
[See also IdeaOverflow IDE (Idea Development Environment)](http://ideaoverflowideplan.tk/) which is a tad outdated.
[For your reference and amusement, here is a copy of my comments section at the bottom of MinimalistHomepages.tk - Google Drive](http://minimalisthomepages.tk/)
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