The first idea is for an app that might be named Crossed Paths. It would use the iPhone’s location capabilities to track each of its users’ movements. It would then report to each user which other users crossed paths with them each day – basically which users were in the same vicinity in any given [...]

As I read here and here about the various examples of iPhone apps in the App Store today, it first occurred to me in a true case of web 2.0 warped thinking that people might not be willing to pay for the apps. But when I noticed that the majority of the apps cost between [...]

This idea was contributed by reader Cliff Bull. It is amazing what the mind can conjure up when you don’t make money your primary focus. Cliff has come up with an idea to boost the adoption of recycling, particularly amongst young people in the U.K and in fact anywhere else in the world. His idea [...]

Assuming Twitter can sort out its technology problems, I think I might have a business model for it. I feel though that it may be a bit presumptuous of me to think this given that greater minds (read the comments at the link) than mine have tried and apparently have so far failed to find [...]

I haven’t posted any travel related ideas since the excess baggage allowance exchange idea I posted a while back. As I travelled recently to and from Dubai recently though, two ideas occurred to me – one on the way there and the other on the way back. I am currently looking for a developer to [...]

You know that brilliant web app that you are building right now? Yes, the one that you hope will attract millions of monthly page views and be very successful. Well try to think ahead to two or six months after you launch it. Assume that you are getting no more than a hundred uniques per [...]

It’s no secret that Microsoft is desperate to become more relevant in the Internet world. The recent failed attempt to acquire Yahoo was just the latest in a series of efforts to at least maintain some semblance of competition with Google, which quite frankly is kicking Microsoft’s butt in that space. So why then is [...]

Why don’t GPS sat nav units serve ads? Why not give away sat nav units and sell advertising to businesses such that when a user arrives at their destination, the familiar “You have reached your destination” message is quickly followed by a couple of brief audio ads? For in-phone sat nav units, the user could [...]

A meme did the rounds last week variously titled “How To Fix Venture Capital”, “Why There Aren’t More Googles” and “Where are the $Billion Startups?”. Basically Umair Haque started it by suggesting that the reason there aren’t more big companies like Google is because startups get bought before they can make it that big. Paul [...]

I had been listening recently to an album for about a week or so that I thought my brother and sister-in-law would like. I had the album in MP3 format but I thought that if I sent it to them digitally, they might listen to it in a few weeks or months, with some prompting [...]