Matte Elsbernd
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Governmints
How about a line of breath mints called Governmints?“mmm bureaucralicious!” “even bigger flavor” “ in original incumbent or new challenger flavors!” “made & approved by the FDA” “take a bite out of big Governmint” “only $1,000 for the trial size”
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Outsource This!
outsource glossary. provide the text for pop-up glossary terms forwebsites. they can brand. include text ads? upsell for branding? no ads? users can provide feedback and hone blurbs… faq too?
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Dow Jones Industrial Soundwave
turn the stock performance graph into a soundwave that someone can listen to…for accessibility for the blind… also to allow people to tell a good stock by it’s sound… “that sounds like a winner!”
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Documemory
Re-enactments/Re-countings of things you remember happening (whether or not they actually happened). In effect, it would be the solidification of a possible life experience through the intentional recreation of supposed memories of said events. Possible tag lines: “An Alternative to History” or “How (I Think) Things Were”.
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To Do, More Done
There are a lot of sites that have tackled the “to do” list niche. Not sure if any of them is going into territories such as: Taking these factors into consideration could allow for Gantt chart style output that helps see when to do items can actually be done.
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Take Picture Here
This one brings the “real” world in line with the “virtual” one. We’ve all seen those “scenic vista” and “photo opportunity” type signs at national parks, theme parks, zoos, etc. They try to highlight just the right place for a little excitement to capture on film (or pixels). Listening to a discussion today about moblogging…
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Shut-Itster.com
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 Shut-itster which would be a (parody) social…
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Nag.me
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 nag.me 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…
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Low-Impact Entrepreneur
One day I came up with this idea to define how I’ve approached the business world these so many years: Low-Impact Entrepreneur. It could mean a lot of different things, but the concept behind it for me is that with the web, one can dip one’s foot into the waters of some new venture or…
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Agile, Distributed, Site Development Structure
This idea came to me during interviews with an online media company – it’s amazing to me still that interviews are an amazing creative event for me – even if I’m not right/don’t get the job. How does one build a process/environment for allowing constantly changing content and feature updates to a site without having…