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January 2008
December 2007
- Google Ornaments - a Holiday Easter Egg?
- Focusing Up: CNET - A Stock To Watch
- Music recommendation: The Silent Years
- Juno: The “Little Miss Sunshine” of 2007
- Web Startup Ideas - The List and The Drought
- Facebook giving stock to Universal Music? Full length songs removed from Myspace for Universal Music artists - Ouch to MySpace.
- My MySpace Days Are Over
- Jakob, Zach, Vimeo, IAC, and Corporate America’s Red Tape
November 2007
- Mark Zuckerberg: Some Personal Writings by a Billionaire
- Made My First Million Dollars
- Facebook Image Uploader - Java Applet - Replica Script?
- Google’s OpenSocial API Docs now online
- OpenSocial — Now who’s going to write the first API documentation?
- OpenSocial: JavaScript Code of Flixster on MySpace - Start Hacking!
October 2007
- Spring Cleaning: I just deleted 29 domains.
- First-User Experience: Don’t Forget It, Entrepreneurs
- MySpace vs Facebook - The “Duh” Difference
September 2007
- Funny - Send Manatees to Fat Camp
- IDEA #77 - Social Search Engine (take on Google)
- Wordpress Theme Wanted: 3-column
- IDEA #76 - The Greatest Menu Meals (fb app initially)
- IDEA #75 - Where I Hang Out (facebook app)
- Startup Weekend Toronto - My Two Cents
- StartupWeekend - Toronto this weekend, NYC next
- ADVICE: Give Away Your Ideas & Take A Load Off
- Steve Poland in BusinessWeek
- IDEA #74 - FMail (Facebook App)
- IDEA #73 - Friends Categorized as API to other Facebook Apps
- IDEA #72 - Digg for Facebook Photos
- IDEA #71 - User-Gen Opinionated Videos, Photos, or Text (Facebook App)
- IDEA #70 - Voting for Video Stars (Facebook App)
- IDEA #69 - Get Users Pulling Info From Others (Facebook App)
- IDEA #68 - Instructing Users to Collectively Participate (Facebook)
- IDEA #67 - Desktop/Mobile IM Client for Facebook
- IDEA #66 - Polls on Current News (Facebook App)
- IDEA #65 - Universal Login that verifies/ties your Digg, MySpace, FB, etc Accounts together
- IDEA #64 - AuctionAds copycat using Affiliate Product DB or just Amazon.com’s Product DB
- Domains for Sale: YouClips.com & UClips.com
August 2007
- Blog Day - Some Recommended Reading
- ASK STEVE #7 - How Do I Get Blog Attention?
- FUNNY: As Not Read by Oprah
- Whuddleworld - TY Beanie Babies Needs To Buy This
- Q: Facebook Apps - How to Sync FB Login with Non-FB Login?
- ASK STEVE #6 - TinyURL (or clone) could become next Digg or Del.icio.us
- Money doesn’t come easy, or else everyone would be rich
- Tip: Don’t Ever, Not Reply to a Sales Inquiry
- ASK STEVE #5 - Posting to all your Social accounts in one click
- Great Daily Tech News Summaries - WebbAlert
- IDEA #63 - Become the next Michael Arrington
July 2007
- ASK STEVE #4 - Idea Brainstorm for MusicExplained.net
- IDEA #62 - Reincarnate Yub.com, but on Facebook
- ASK STEVE #3 - Content & Community Makes Money for Resource/Hobby Sites
- ASK STEVE #2 - Invest Your Time to Make Millions, Not Dollars
- ASK STEVE #1 - Copycat Apps When Leader Exists: Not a Good Idea
- Warning: I will rip your idea/business apart
- Need Some Expert Advice? Ask Steve (me!)
- Twitter - Become the (Facebook) Platform, For Mobile
- Obsessed with Music, but Can’t Be a Rockstar?
- IDEA #61 - Music Affiliate JavaScript Blog Include
- Facebook Apps - Unlimited Possibilities
- Some New Ideas & Startup Weekend
- Summer Breaking
May 2007
- IDEA #60 - Video Search from the Audio
- Inspiration for the day: PlentyOfFish.com $500k/mo 1-man operation
- Paris, Britney, Lindsay — Will they ever stop drinking and driving?
- CIHOST are SPAMMERS, UGH!!!
- Shout Out: VERY Funny Ecards Website
- ATTN PEEPING TOMS - Your Own ‘Rear Window’
- Joost Deal Plans Exposed - Here’s The Text
- IDEA #59 - Music News and Concert Dates for your Favorite Bands
- Google Reader - Where’s the Search box?
- The Largest Social Network In World, Untapped
- IDEA #58 - Politics: Who Should You Vote For?
- IDEA #57A - Social Networking via your RSS subscriptions
- IDEA #57 - RSS Reader Influenced By Your Peers
- IDEA #56 - Web Hosting Company using Amazon S3
- Stats - I love snooping around
April 2007
- Quote: Don’t ever let anyone tell you that something is too competitive
- IDEA #55 - Flickr photo editing and printing software
- Burnt Out, Refocusing
- Web2.0forsale.com — Latest Listings
- IDEA #54 - The Food Made Me Sick
- IDEA #53 - Everyone Gets Sick
- I’m also blogging over at WeBothLike
- Justin.TV - Looking for Guest on Tuesday
- Interactive TV Ideas
- I’m the first Twitter spammer, ugh
- Web2.0forsale.com Open Discussions
- Web 2.0 Buy/Sell Tips
- How to create a Twitter bot
- IDEA #52 - Search Revenues Benefit Charities
- WeBothLike Announced; Interviewed at CenterNetworks
- Web2.0forsale.com Launches - Sell Web 2.0 Websites
- IDEA #51 - Email via Snail Mail, for free!
- Attn: Google AdSense Employee - I need help
- TWITTER: Who wants to build Twitterbots.com?
- IDEA #50 - Fantasy Sport League Widgets
- IDEA #49 - Buy Music, Help Charities
- First Twitter Bots Launched: Sports Teams, Weather, Stock Quotes
- Who’s going to Web 2.0 Expo (Apr 15-18)?
- Ringside Startup, Take Two
- Steve, where are the ideas? F Twitter!!!
- Stupidest Web Feature Ever Created: Tag Clouds
March 2007
- Make Money With Twitter! 5 Monetization Models
- “Pull” Twitter Apps Not Practical Until…
- Twitter - What Will Dominate: Content Push or Content Pull?
- Being An Idea Guy Really Sucks Sometimes
- Are you a Senior PHP/MySQL programmer?
- Twitter Usernames Are Like Domains in 1995
- Y Combinator’s Startup School Event
- Ringside Startup Launches! 60 days to raise $20,000
- 10 Twitter Hack Start-Up Ideas
- Twitter API Ideas - digg, categorization, MyBlogLog
- START-UP SCARS: 10 Times I’ve Fallen On My Face
- IM Bots: (Almost) Real-Time Blog Chat via IM
- IDEA #48A - Printed Volumes Of Your Online Reading
- IDEA #48 - Personalized Printed Magazines and Catalogs
- IDEA #47 - Video Trains and Tracking
- IDEA #46 - Who Do You Vouch For?
- IDEA #45 - Social Connections Search Engine
- Which are my Best Ideas?
- Help Sought: Do you know Wordpress and PHP?
- TECHSTARS: Get $15,000 in Funding for Summer
- IDEA #44 - Everyone’s An Expert
- IDEA #43 - Everyone Has Neighbors
- IDEA #42 - Audio Ads Network Provider
- IDEA #40 cont’d - The Marketing Ideas
- IDEA #41- Digg based on Your Friends and Network
- IDEA #40 cont’d - Differentiate, Get Users, Then Revenues
- IDEA #40 cont’d - Primary Functionality Specifications
- IDEA #40 cont’d - The Functionality Launch “Essentials”
- IDEA #40 cont’d - All Functionality and Features Outlined
- VIDMETER: Still Early, A Competitor Should Launch
- IDEA #40 - Vyous - Capturing Your View on Everything (events, topics, websites, businesses, products)
- South by Southwest Conference - Starts Friday!
- IDEA #39 - Vyous - Aggregated Event Photos/Videos (everyone’s views)
- IDEA #38 - Invest in a Music Band! Fantasy Music Stock Game
- SXSW Interactive Conference (Austin, Texas)
- IDEA #37 - Viral Anonymous Positive Comment Network
- IDEA #36 - Social Audio / Video Recommendations
- SHARE: Web Start-Up Idea Websites
- IDEA #35 - In-Store, On-Product, More Information Call / Text
- IDEA #34 - Apartments For Rent (Auto-Updated Weekly)
- IDEA #33 - Motel Pricing and Availability by Phone
- IDEA #32 - Online Video Embed Code Piggy-Backing
- IDEA #31 - Stock Market Social Media Tracker
February 2007
- ADVICE: You Never Hit A Bulls-Eye If You Don’t Throw The Darts
- ADVICE: What Idea Are You Working On?
- IDEA #9 Revisit: Online Videos Archived For Life
- IDEA #30 - People Meter - Who’s Who Of The World 500 Ranking List
- ADVICE: Build Your Own Name, into a Brand Name
- What Frustrates You?
- IDEA #29 - Your Vyous (comments) on Any Webpage
- READ: Everything I Ever Needed to Know I Learned by Starting a Web Company
- IDEA #28 - Fan-submitted Music Video Ideas
- FUN: List Your Domains - What Ideas Do We Get
- A Moment For My Sponsors: You
- IDEA #27 - Lunch/Dinner/Bar Specials - Updated Daily
- What makes a Serial Web Ideapreneur?
- MUSIC MARKETING GIMMICK: Non-Stop Listening
- No Sponsors Yet, Just Supporters (readers; aka “You”)
- IDEA #26C - Job Postings - Details by Voicemail Message
- IDEA #26B - Auto Details and Photos to your Cell
- IDEA #26A - For Rent/Sale - View Info & Photos Instantly
- IDEA FLOW: Comes and Goes
- Do you feel great? Be around Great People.
- IDEA #25 - Blogroll Advertising Network
- LESSON: Finding Your Inner Jerry Maguire
- IDEA #24 - Our Overlapping Website Viewing Habits
- LESSON - 5 Deadly Sins for Blind Business Creation
- IDEA #23 - Your Syndicated Chronological Life
- Marshall Kirkpatrick: SMS/IM/Email Alerts for RSS Feeds
- IDEA #22 - Amazon.com Social Networking
- IDEA #6 additions - LikeLoveOrHate.com (adds user compatibility ratings; dating / event capabilities)
- Archives
- IDEA #21 - Remynders.com
- IDEA #20 - Finding the Employee Leak
- IDEA #19 - Bookmarks as Image Screenshots
- IDEA #18 - Custom Music/Sports T-Shirts
- IDEA #17 - Audio Chatting by Phone
- IDEA #16 - What’s Going On Tonight
- What Web Service/Software Startup Ideas do you have?
- IDEA #15 - Ads on Websites Replaced
- IDEA #14 - Ads with Personal Endorsements (filtered ad network)
- IDEA #13 - I Got Drunk Last Night
- IDEA #12 - E-Cards with Your Voice (and bonus ideas)
- IDEA #11 - Classifieds by Cell - The Long Tail of Used Goods that has yet to Emerge
- IDEA #10 - In-Person Social Networking - Event/Bar Mingling via Cell
- IDEA #9 - Pay-Per-Play Videos (PPPV): The YouTube Differentiator
January 2007
- IDEA #8 - Anonymous Email Address to Your Cell
- IDEA #7 - Video Comments Plugin for Blogs
- About
- IDEA #6 - LikeLoveOrHate.com (a HotOrNot for interests — products, fads, movies, music, etc)
- IDEA #5 - Video & Audio Ratings of Transactions (Businesses/Products/People)
- IDEA #4 - The MySpace Killer? Proximity Social Networking
- IDEA #3 - ShareMy.net (”share my internet”)
- All My Web Ideas, are all Yours
- IDEA #2 - Print-On-Demand Books at Airports
- IDEA #1: Multiple callers-to-text transcription software
- Welcome to Techquila Shots!
