Has been a while since I went around looking at great ideas. But just moment ago I found Average Idea that teaches you how to generate better ideas.
Smile.
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You may have notice that as you hover over a link on this site, a dialogue bubble pops up showing a snapshot of the link (Try it).
Snap.com provides that a little javascript that does the magic that you saw. You don’t even have to sign up.
Thumbshots has thumbnail preview of sites for a long time (and I’m sure there are many more). These (Web 1.0?) sites should have made it as easy to include thumbnails for user to include into their site. But I guess they stopped innovating and Snap came in. A case of doing something simple, better.
It would be interesting to see Snap.com’s revenue model.
I just ran across this idea today. Go visit 2 to the 22.
This idea is simple yet if Tonni (the guy behind it) pulls it off he will be capital letter RICH. It does remind us of the million pixel idea.
So what is the idea about?
Basically the idea is that the price to buy a slot on the homepage double each time it changes hand. Starting from 1 at $1, it will stop when it had double 22 times. Check out how it works.
(Heard of the fable of the king that was asked for grain of rice that double on each box of the checker board?)
Below I did a calculation of what he had made as of now and how much he stands to make at each stage.
Watch the power of the internet buzz!
I’m not sorry to be Google’s mouth piece again. Because this time they released what I had been waiting for a long time - Google Calendar.
There was a sneak preview on Techcrunch in early March and now it’s out. Learn of it from my GMail web clip.
A while back, I started using 30Boxes but stopped.
Feature is one thing but integration is another. I’m not a person that would use one site for email, another site for calendar and yet another for address book, all because they are best of breed. Put them in one place please.
That’s why portal like Yahoo works before and Google is doing a fantastic job wooing me.
Yahoo, why can’t you open your all-too-great Yahoo mail beta to non-US users?
Nevermind, I’m using GMail now.
So let see when Google is giving me a better address book.
Thanks to a tip-off by Vince, I learnt of Blue Security.
Put simply, the idea behind Blue Security is to stop spam by community pressure, what they called Active DeterrenceTM. Watch this flash introduction.
I’m focusing on the consumer solution here. They also have solution for corporates, email marketers and website owners.
You are required to download a software to install on your computer. As usual I’m reluctant. However SiteAdvisor has some good comments and the program is open source. So I believe they are bona fide and safe.
My thoughts?
While this will work with regular online retailers that want to maintain reputation, I doubt it would work with hardcore spammers that paddles viagra, porn, logo, ipod, make money quick, nigeria scams and what have you. Their sole purpose to existance is to spam.
If you have use it, what’s your experiences?
While we are still on the topic of spam, I ran across this idea today.
Protect Web Form is an initiative to stop web form spam. Anyone running a blog, wiki, forum or even a website for a while will soon discover web form spam.
Basically any web form is a target for spam, be it a feedback form or a blog comment.
The reason spam continues is because the stake is high. More spam leads to more traffic, leads to more sales.
Since Google ranks content in blog and wiki highly, there are huge incentive for spammers to target blogs and wiki.
Most blog and wiki software have some form of spam defence. WordPress’s Akismet plugin had been very effective in stopping spam to this blog.
However if you using an application with limited spam protection, give ProtectWebForm.com a try.
This blog is fast becoming a Google mouthpiece. Yet another post related to Google. Google is getting so much into my online activities that it’s freaky.
I use Gmail solely for my email now. I use Adsense and Adword. Since I use Firefox, Google is my default search. I am now starting with Google Analytics.
All these I credit to Google’s international friendliness. While Yahoo and Microsoft restricted their beta stuffs only to US user, Google offers it’s beta service internationally.
Too bad that Y! and MS do not get the globalness of the Internet.
Today I finally received an invite to Google Analytics. The request was submitted in Janurary and I wondered when I will get the elusive invite.
Only one word is sufficient as I waste no time to sign in - “Wow!”.
Certainly no comparison to open source stuff like Analog, AWStats or Webalizer.
I’m still waiting for the data to be collected but after a few hours I’m learning more about my website than I previously had.
Now this is seriously an unfair advantage.
For those that had been using it a few months back, how had it helped you?
Google just launched some thing many people had been anticipating - Google Finance.
What took them so long? Google News had been around for years. One would think a finance site is a no brainer.
Taking a quick look,
- No chart for markets outside the US.
- For US companies, there is a nice flash chart that links to news, (see Google, Yahoo)
- Mouse over management name for bio. Good presentation.
- Blog posts are included as part of the company information. Interesting.
- Very rudimentary portfolio function
The way for Google Finance to really differentiate from Yahoo and MSN is to do what they do best - web services. Expose financial data to users so that users can mix and mash financial information in all manner imaginable. If they do, it will be the biggest coup since Google Map.
I certainly have a few ideas up my mind that could use some financial information. Will they do that?
What others was saying before the launch:
- Rumor Alert: Google Finance? - DownloadSquad
- Next up: Google Finance - Silicon Beat
Well, it’s here now!
What others are saying now? Let’s hear from insider in Google and Yahoo.
- I like the search in Google Finance - Matt Cutts
- Why Google Finance Makes Me Sad - Jeremy Zawodny
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