Suggestions for Gates, Buffett and Turner – Home Insulation Edition
photo © 2006 Fin Fahey | more info (via: Wylio)On Sunday I watched Christianne Amanpour’s interview with Bill & Melinda Gates, Warren Buffett and Ted Turner on This Week on Sunday. All three espoused some form of SpiderMan conservatism. The only interesting thing that emerged from the interview was that the Gates Foundation funds experimental […]
Free Biz Idea – profile people via their online content
photo © 2009 Jac Culler | more info (via: Wylio)I recently thought of an online profiling service for sales people and business development people. To use the service, a client enters the FaceBook Profile URL/Name/Email/Twitter/Blog Account/LinkedIn profile of a sales prospect into the service. The service then spiders that person’s user-generated online content and draw […]
Semantic improvements for news coverage that should be in the html 5 spec
With all of the recent political news stories I thought it would be useful to filter out the wheat from the chaff, and what better way to do that than by introducing new tags to refine the semantics of the news? Surely these are as important as H1, Strong and EM tags for news stories. I […]
New Business notion – A cognitive bias counselor
Lately my reading has been about cognitive biases in decision making and I had the thought that most good advice tells you what you already know, just in a form shorn of anchoring effects, survivorship bias, and so on. Sometimes it’s easier to remove the mote in thy neighbor’s eye than the beam in your own.
A workable secret society web application – Brain Trust
I wrote about my desire to form a secret society several months ago and so far have found no suitable web application to help me do that. IMind seems to be the closest complete solution but it seems too jumbled to accomplish much (I’m judging them purely from their website, I have not tried the product.) […]
Free Business Idea – Right Wing Vitamins and Organic Foods
The Left Wing Temperament – Idealizes: caring, tolerance and balance Prone To: Hugging The Right Wing Temperament – Idealizes: Cleanliness, organization and order Prone To: Personal space There are many political overtones and exceptions to the above sweeping characterizations, but in terms of temperament they are true (just trust me on that). You’ve probably noticed […]
Seek and ye shall find, Mastermind Groups anyway
My first idea for a free business was an online helper for a secret society. Then I come across the notion of the “Mastermind Group”, which apparently is the polite name for such a thing. The I come across IMind Live, which purports to be such a thing. The site seems to be a jumbled […]
Free Idea #2 – Homemaker Incorporated
As my domestic status has changed over the past year, this idea no longer would applies to me, but here is another business idea I would have paid for. Home Maker Inc – A service that would mimic many of the offerings of the good homemaker, solely in the care and maintenance of the home […]
Free Idea #1 – form and maintain a secret society online
I’ve always wanted to join a secret society. Membership in an organization like minded people of diverse backgrounds (key features of any worthwhile group in my opinion) devoted to some specific purpose could be quite handy to belong to have. The “secret” angle of everything is in place to keep it small, and exclusive, which […]
The start of the Free Ideas feature
I think of way too many ideas for my own good, far more ideas than I have time. I have committed to the Stronico idea as my start up venture, but I’m going to post new ideas for companies and products here, under the “Free Ideas” category for others to use, or me to come […]