I got an email from a microPledge.com today – an invitation to their pre-launch website. Apparently I had pre-registered my interest in their site but I only vaguely remember visiting it once. The idea behind the site is a good one I think: If you want to see a piece of software developed, post it on [...]

I read a great post by the Tim O’Reilly a while back about how banks could do much more good with the data they have on us by harnessing our collective intelligence Web 2.0 style. I remember thinking at the time that the banks would never do this because they are inherently complacent and usually too slow to do [...]

This is probably best as a feature or widget rather than a product in its own right, but wouldn’t it be useful to be able to easily search a blog or other website for all posts or pages that you had previously viewed – sortable perhaps by viewed date?
I have just spent almost half an hour trying to locate a post that I read [...]

A web application known as VoSnap is being developed as I write, by 70 or so people who have gathered for the sole purpose of starting up a web application and business in a single weekend. The crew includes developers, lawyers, marketing people etc.
For weeks leading up to the weekend, people were invited to suggest ideas for which product to [...]