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 [...]

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 [...]

I am new to Twitter so I am still learning to tell my RTs from my @replies, DMs and hashtags – or is that #tags? Anyway, I think there might be some combination of all these Twitter elements that might enable it to support the implementation of a tool that I have long wished was [...]

One of my favourite products from this year’s Demo show was Zuora’s Z-Commerce for Facebook. With Facebook having failed to give application developers a way to sell their apps to users a la the iPhone’s app store, most of the developers have had to resort to free, frivolous apps that they then look to monetise [...]

Just watched the demo09 presentation by the company 7 Billion People. They operate in the space that I have repeatedly suggested Facebook should focus on – Conversion. My thinking is that assuming it is technically feasible, adding Facebook data to the algorithms that 7 Billion People currently uses in customising e-commerce user experiences could significantly [...]

I have always feared that the much-hyped phenomenon of location-based services was destined to join a long line of technologies that never quite lived up to their hype. Of course I always hoped to be proved wrong but when TechCrunch ran a post last year inviting readers to send in their ideas for location-based services, [...]