(Not So) Used Ideas

I think that I speak for nearly everyone in the world who’s been on the internet that Wikipedia is an amazingly useful website. Just blows my mind the ways I use it and to think of what I had to do to find the same information before it came around.
But while wikipedia is a great [...]

So today, was out, and it rained.
Happens every day in some place in the world, right?
But we’ve got the internet!
So, just as my Google Calendar will send me a text message before my dentist appointment, why can’t I get the weather messaged to me?
Well, that’s not too revolutionary. But what about I only get [...]

outsource glossary. provide the text for pop-up glossary terms for
websites. they can brand. include text ads? upsell for branding? no ads?
users can provide feedback and hone blurbs…
faq too?

This one should be a business… one that offers a web service/software app which is all about the opposite of “remind me.”
So the nagme system would allow you to enter websites, search terms, time amounts, times of day, etc. which trigger the system to hit you with a pop-up or warning asking “are you SURE [...]

Sitting through a web conference hyping Web 2.0 and web communities, I realize (yet again) how much I am not that demographic. I have rarely ever chatted, posted to newsgroups, hung out on blogs, etc. So, with the proliferation of MySpace, Facebook and Friendster, why isn’t there a Shutitster which would be a (parody) [...]