Open calendar systems, seem to me to be a massively underexploited gap in the Web 2.0 marketplace. I have yet to find anything that is remotely good enough, and that fully exploits the opportunities that shared time presents. Sharing time based information creates numerous opportunities and an open calendar with an intuitive UI represents an […]
Category Archives: The Ideas Diary
I share a dream
I don’t have a dream, it is not mine to possess. I share a dream. This dream is one of collaboration, where public organisations recognise that their goals are more important than the means they use to achieve them. Where they transcend their structures and share knowledge, recognising that it doesn’t matter who achieves the […]
The Ideas Diary – Blog the Aged Project
Get younguns to film old uns talking about what life was like growing up in a particular geographic location. Will serve to include the old in the digital media revolution and hopefully break down a few of the perceptions that both parties hold. Plus it will create a sense of history around an area. I […]
The Ideas Diary – How YouTube can turn a profit
Photo Credit http://www.flickr.com/photos/iwaszewski/ Further to my previous post on Augmented Content, i’d like to follow with an example. The example in question, could remove some of the many issues of media rights that we presently face, if the right profits share systems can be created. Augmented Broadcasting Imagine your watching a film and you see […]
One night in ten: Distributed postal service
Stemming from the communities talking to each other conundrum, but with a little of rising fuel costs thrown in. Do we really need mail delivered to our door? What if it was 5 doors down, and I had to pop round (or they did by private arrangement if I’m really lazy) or the end of […]
One night in ten ideas: Street sales rights
This stems from another musing on why we are so threatened by teenagers on the street. Aside from the media portrayal that is The real question is – Why is it only teenagers on the streets? Here lies the problem, how can we have community if we stay in our houses? So one answer is […]
One night in ten ideas: Tag Linking
Tool that links delicious tags with your blog page, so when people add tags for your page, they add them to your page.
One night in ten ideas: Rentaurant
A restaurant where there are no chefs, where you can rent a table, chairs and cooking space. You can go there with friends and cheaply get together. Bring your own food Access spices, buy food to cook, be “assisted” (so you could all learn at same time), or even contract a guest chef. Everyone loves […]
One night in ten ideas: Making celebrities sing on your tracks is cool
Especially if they are hacked to say something they wouldn’t. OK more an observation, but I’m not correcting the above posts.
One night in ten ideas: Business Opportunity: Alt food stall
Rather than your run of the mill kebab stand, why not have something selling something really nice, and pick a mix. Kebabs have become conventional wisdom, but it’s only because they’re up late and outside the club. I encountered a late night patisserie in Toulouse at 4 in the morning, it was just what I […]
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