I have written here before about evaluating business ideas. Now I don’t know about you but I find that I am continually adjusting and fine-tuning my methods and criteria for assessing mine and other people’s ideas. Recently I read about YouNoodle – a controversial startup that allegedly claims to be able to predict the success [...]

One idea that has bounced in and out of my head for a couple of years now is to give website publishers and bloggers the ability to show in a widget, photos of people mentioned on a web page or blog post. In its simplest form, the widget could have an admin interface that would [...]

Much is often made of how Google could improve search results (or do a lot of evil) by learning from our search histories. Since there are a lot of valid privacy concerns with that approach, I think Google could still improve results considerably by learning from a user’s result-clicks within a search session. As an [...]

Most air travellers travel with hold baggage pieces well within the allowed limits but many others travel with excess baggage – typically on international, long-haul flights. I haven’t done much detailed research on revenues from excess baggage charges but my guess is that they are substantial. My idea is for a web-based system that allows [...]