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 [...]

It appears that there is no free to use website for gauging the balance of public opinion – good to or bad – for a specified keyword or phrase. This keyword could be a product, brand, country, website, whatever. Now I did find that a company called SkyGrid does offer a similar service but it [...]

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 [...]