The other day, I stumbled upon a few of my old ideas that were dumb at the time I conceived them, but which when viewed with a web 2.0 lens appeared, well – a little less dumb. 1. Gadget Test Drives - my vision was for some very large physical facility where gadget lovers could go to try gadgets before [...]

Seeing the mixed reactions in the comments of this techcrunch post, to recently launched WebbAlert, it occurs to me that there may be a good business opportunity in providing a platform for anyone to do something similar. It got me thinking, is there a website today that enables its users to send in video or audio clips of themselves [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Mahalo – the latest and somewhat controversial entrant to the search engine space – is reported to employ about 40 editors who manually edit search results in order to provide spam-free and therefore better results for its users. I can’t help but think that these editors would be better utilised by allowing users to rate search results and [...]

While searching for cheap web app development resource it occurred to me that one could make a business of coaching prison inmates to write web applications while in prison and upon their release – real life applications paid for by bootstrapping entrepreneurs with no programming skills. Snigger all you want at this idea but a really [...]

In my previous post I described how I almost got fooled by a clever domain name scam. This has sparked yet another a business idea in my mind. What if a toolbar existed that allowed users to mark a site as running a scam. Other users on visiting the site would then immediately be alerted to this. Perhaps [...]

Robert Scoble writes that we need better statistics on web traffic. It got me thinking what sort of application could facilitate this and I think the application would need to have the following characteristics: Be a Toolbar – Yes, I know (and Scoble also observes) that most people do not download traffic measurement toolbars today, but if the application [...]

Believe it or not there are countries out there where TV audience data is not available. Primarily these are small or developing countries where audience measurement companies like AGB Nielsen do not operate, probably because it is not cost effective to use traditional audience measurement methods. Examples of such countries abound in Africa and I know of [...]

It is late so I will get straight to the point and try to keep this brief. I have an idea for a wiki site that is dedicated to market sector analyses. The goal is that for any given market sector, e.g. mobile advertising, the wiki gives as current a view of the state of [...]