Monthly Archives:: April 2007

IDEA #50 – Fantasy Sport League Widgets

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TweetFirst off, I’m the worst person to be even suggesting this idea — because I haven’t participated in a fantasy sports league since 1997 probably. But I know it’s a big business online. Maybe this already exists, but what about someone creating a distributed fantasy sports league where widgets are involved. And I could place [...]

IDEA #49 – Buy Music, Help Charities

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TweetA website setup with passionate music fans that do some writing. Then the entire iTunes catalog is on the site via their affiliate program (which is either via CJ or LinkShare). Everytime someone buys a song via a link on your site from iTunes, you receive $0.05 (or 5%) of the sale price. You could [...]

First Twitter Bots Launched: Sports Teams, Weather, Stock Quotes

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TweetThese might be the first push/pull Twitter applications. For weather forecasts, add Forecast as a Twitter friend. Simply send it a direct message with your zip code, or city name, or city / state — for example ‘d forecast buffalo, ny’ or ‘d forecast 14217′. You will then receive a direct message back with your [...]

Who’s going to Web 2.0 Expo (Apr 15-18)?

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TweetI’m confirmed and attending the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco — and will be reporting on behalf of TechCrunch. If you’ll be in attendance, or live in the SF area, post below so that we can all connect at the event. (who are you, what do you do, company, interests) Post any parties too. [...]

Must-Hear Music 2

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TweetIf you know me, you know I’m obsessed with music. Here’s some new stuff my friends and I have discovered. It’s all top-notch: [click to instantly listen on Hype Machine] Plants and Animals – Parc Avenue [buy on eBay] The Von Bondies – Love, Hate and Then There’s You [buy CD on amazon.com] [MP3 album [...]

Ringside Startup, Take Two

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TweetI don’t believe at this moment that I can raise the contribution size I have been hoping to raise ($10k minimum; $20k goal). My belief was that I could get tons of entrepreneurs that are very interested in the entire start-up experience — specifically getting to hear the insight of experienced venture capitalists and seasoned [...]

Steve, where are the ideas? F Twitter!!!

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TweetAll, it’s not that I’ve hit a creative road block — it’s that I’ve been obsessed with Twitter lately. My apologies — don’t remove me from your RSS feed yet, please I’ll get past this. The other problem is that I’m currently hoarding my ideas (18 of them), which is throwing me into a road [...]

Stupidest Web Feature Ever Created: Tag Clouds

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TweetAgree or disagree? Not sure I’ve blogged about this openly yet, so I’m going to do it now. Tag clouds are the stupidest creation on the web I’ve seen in all the years I’ve been on the web. I don’t use tag clouds — and I can’t imagine anyone that does. A list of unsorted [...]