TweetI will be attending the South by Southwest Interactive Conference in Austin, TX (USA) this coming Friday (March 9-13). If you’re attending, comment on this post with a little information on yourself. Look for me — I’ll also be sticking around for the Music conference (March 14-18).

TweetTimothy Chen’s idea post No Love No Hate got me thinking. I believe I’m about to say the exact same thing he did, but add to it a bit — I think it’s a great idea, and viral. The idea is basically that people anonymously write positive comments / stories / etc, which are then [...]

TweetProblem: I’m out and want to rent a movie, or buy a movie / CD / book — I’d like recommendations from friends or people with similar tastes as mine. Solution: Dial a phone number (VXML) or send a text message (SMS) and receive recommendations (or selections from your own wishlist) for books, movies, or [...]

TweetI drifted over to Techquila Shots reader Timothy Chen‘s website, “Idea is Queen!” where he is writing out his ideas. What other websites do you read that are brainstorming web-based start-up ideas? Or (links for) specific blog posts where an idea was shared that you really liked. Share in the comments section of this post.

TweetTechquila Shots reader Graydon just mentioned that he was at Lowe’s the other day looking at bbq grills and that one of them had a phone number displayed on it, so you could get a narrative walk-through of the features on the grill. What a great idea! Practically everyone has a cell phone on them [...]

TweetEver look for an apartment? What a bitch of a process. There’s no single source for the apartments that are for rent — Rent.com has the big complexes typically, whereas my local newspaper and local weekly artsy newspaper have classifieds with the upper/lower apartments in houses. I hate that when you look at apartments on [...]

TweetWhen I’m traveling on road trips, I hate finding a motel. I usually wait until I’m dead tired and find the next one — I hope it’s not sketchy and reasonably priced. Typically, it’s very sketchy. It’d be great to know the closest motels from my location on whatever highway I’m on — also the [...]

TweetQuick summary: Tons of online videos exist at YouTube, etc. People grab an ‘embed’ code for a video, so that they can post the video on their MySpace page or in a blog post. When you grab the embed code, it simply displays the video player with the video. I’m proposing a new website that [...]

TweetFrom Eric Nagel, friend and colleague (from an IM conversation, so apologize for the brevity and not backing up the sources of these numbers): I heard an unbelievable fact… 50% of all US stocks are held by 1% of all the shareholders in the world and 90% of all stock is held by like 10% [...]