Social networks allow the everyday person to write their biography and share it with the world in a way that — in the past — was reserved for the super-famous.
Social Networks: The digital red carpet
Imagination
911 video scares criminals
(Future of 911) — Dialing 911 starts a video recording that is uploaded to a server in real-time. Records are kept online, even if the phone breaks.
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Weather Dashboard in Call Centers
How about a tiny dash board on every call center operator’s computer that shows the weather where the caller is?
StumbleUpon iPhone Infomercials
Here’s an idea for an app: Shake the iPhone and a new deal comes across the screen.
Memoirs: FBook Auction
Back in 2005, when I was at USC, I created a site called FBookAuction.
The site allowed users to auction off ownership to groups on Facebook. The new owner could send marketing messages to the group. (This was before Facebook apps.)
The idea was to give Facebook entrepreneurs a way to make money by aggregating groups of people that an advertiser would target (e.g. people with allergies). And to give advertisers (e.g. allergy drug company) a way to send marketing messages to their target audience.
It didn’t work.
Imagination > Knowledge. Capture it.
Lunch today was with the inventor of the brain organizer iPhone app, Nicholas Mac Connell. We were talking about how imagination is more important than knowledge.
I use Nicholas’ product, the brain organizer, to capture my imagination while writing ads. When the many scattered ideas come into my head, I’m able to file them in the brain organizer. The product uses a very simple – yet very powerful categorization system. It gives me a high-level view of what’s going on in my imagination. Now, big ideas don’t get away.