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IDEA #107: Expected Future News Stories

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TweetI’m going through the past few years of ideas that are in my moleskine notebooks. Some of the ideas are really lacking, but might give you an idea? All of these ideas are yours for the taking. Don’t forget my archive of 100+ web startup ideas. You could likely start to get indexed by Google and get [...]

IDEA #106: Give Friends Awards

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TweetI’m going through the past few years of ideas that are in my moleskine notebooks. Some of the ideas are really lacking, but might give you an idea? All of these ideas are yours for the taking. Don’t forget my archive of 100+ web startup ideas. This was an idea from 2007, likely as a Facebook app, [...]

Back in March 2007, I registered 1000+ of the best Twitter Usernames

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TweetUPDATE: Note, as mentioned below, most of these usernames have been taken away from me. I can not help you get them, so please don’t contact me about them. If they are in a ‘suspended’ state, you can likely get them from Twitter. Otherwise, if they are being used, then they likely were already taken [...]

The little startup that couldn’t (a postmortem of MyFavorites)

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TweetI’m officially putting MyFavorites behind me. The problem I was trying to solve, isn’t one of those problems you think you have… and I think those types of solutions/startups are a bit tougher. I already outlined my own problems with running a startup in a prior post about MyFavorites (“Repeat after me, I will not [...]

My review of Veranda PVC Composite Railing for Balcony/Deck from Home Depot

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Tweet I needed railing for my home’s balcony. I wanted composite PVC, because it is relatively maintenance-free. I bought the Veranda PVC Composite Railing from Home Depot. The project took Brennan and I a total of 19 hours. The night before we got materials for 3 hours at Home Depot and then spent 16 hours [...]

IDEA #105: Fakebook – Fake fun of your friends!

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Tweet This idea I really wanted to pursue. I had it back on October 9, 2007 (that’s when I wrapped up a spec document on it). Below is info on it.. you can see it’s a bit dated, but still a good idea. Someone is pursuing something similar to this that I know of, so [...]

IDEAS #104: Turntable features and revenues

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TweetFollowing up from my ‘The New Early-Adoptor Addiction: Turntable‘ post on TechCrunch, these are some brainstormed revenue ideas for Turntable, and more. What do you want to see from them? Virtual goods for points: (obviously they could sell points packages too) Access to unreleased songs and exclusive remixes More user avatars Stickers for your laptop [...]

Repeat after me, I will not do another startup as a non-technical founder unless…

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Tweet (above: the original paper mockup of Twitter by @jack) I have spent nearly the past year working on my startup MyFavorites and I thought this was finally the time that I had learned all my lessons on failure. I hadn’t. What I have learned this time around are a slew of things I can’t possibly [...]

IDEA #103 (I want!): Streaming radio of future concerts in my city

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TweetI’d love an app/website where I specify my city, and then it plays me a streaming radio station composed of songs by bands/musicians that are playing a scheduled concert in my city in the future. This would expose me to new music and I imagine I’d buy some concert tickets to shows I didn’t even [...]

The Usage Psychology of Twitter, Foursquare, Facebook

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TweetI don’t know much about psychology, but below I have brainstormed my own quick thoughts on aspects of why users are using these various services. These services allow you to broadcast what you are doing. This is a follow-up to my post about the metrics of ‘me, me, me!’ on these services. Twitter easy to [...]