I am looking  to offer a variety of gift cards for sale in my app as depicted below but I’m finding it surprisingly difficult to find a service or API that I can use for this. The app will let the user choose from a selection of gift cards to buy for a recipient. Of [...]

The idea is for a web application sort of like Facebook but for sharing stuff with your inner circle of friends and family members and with a focus on sharing sparingly – only relevant stuff. The premise here is that I still share a lot of stuff (links and media) by email with some of [...]

Perhaps Foursquare and Gowalla already have this on their roadmaps but it seems to me that they are missing a trick right now in not including a seemingly obvious feature. When I check-in to an establishment, the establishment should have the option of displaying to me a mini mobile website, to which it publishes content [...]

If you ever needed proof that ideas are best shared rather than protected, watch this video. In it, a caller on Jason Calacanis’ excellent online video show – This Week in Startups  (aka TWIST) – pitches an idea for what would essentially be an administrative tool for schools to communicate with parents as well as [...]

It pains me to give this idea away (if there is such a thing) but no doubt people up and down the tech world are right now brainstorming copy cat or spin-off ideas to ChatRoulette and someone’s bound to have thought of this already and is probably working on it as I write. I suppose [...]

How’s this for a fun (if extremely juvenile) idea for a Facebook application? An app that mimics the infamous Russian Roulette game but instead of a fatal shot to the head, the unlucky player has to post a self-demeaning Facebook status update. Laugh as you might at this idea, something tells me it is exactly [...]

Sorry I haven’t posted for a while folks – busy building something for a change. Here is a quick one (idea) – enable small businesses and individuals to tweet-in ads or classifieds during a TV programme. The solution could also be extended to cover online video, especially live ones.

Assuming you actually care what your Twitter followers think about your tweets, wouldn’t it be useful to have an app that does the following? Analyses your followers’ tweets and streams including the links they contain, to determine their interests and then tells you the strength of tweet you are about to post in terms of [...]

Trash Twitter on your blog and all but swear to never use it. (See my post here) Realise that no one cares what you think and that they all continue to rave about Twitter Quietly try Twitter to see what all the fuss is about Eat humble pie and admit publicly that you were wrong [...]

Still on Facebook and conversion, what if people who click on your Facebook ad could be greeted with “Dear John” (or whatever their name was) when they arrived on your landing page instead of a generic “Dear Facebook User”? Facebook would of course need a user’s permission to do this and if they hadn’t received [...]