Here is another business idea.

SixApart has just started the Relationship Update Stream service. It's a "friends added and dropped" realtime update feed. It's neat and powerful and useful, and is can do a lot of powerful and scary stuff ( Read more... )

I remember being little, watching and helping my dad and my grandpa make wooden stepup stools. We had stepup stools in every room. I have one in my room right now , that my geriatric cat uses to get up on the bed. And down in the kitchen, is a heavy-duty one, made by my grandfather ( Read more... )

A few months ago, I had a meeting with a small local startup. Their tech and their pitch is pretty neat. They had an angel kick them a megabuck of seed to get started. It's the classic geek startup: two main guys, one wearing the CEO/sales/biz/money hat, and the other wearing the CTO/it/tech/arch/geek hat. And they've hired a couple of coders ( Read more... )

A fun business idea I occationally mull over is to buy a high quality laminate card printer, the sort of thing that is used to make id cards, and make unofficial IDs. A general purpose ID card, with photo, name, address, number, etc. Press passes for "USENET News Service". "Member of the Right Wing Conspiracy". "Member of the Left Wing ( Read more... )

Make it trivially easy to install a "printer" to your service on Windows, Mac, and Linux desktops. If you play your cards right, you might be able to get Fedora and Ubentu to include you as a printer by default right out of the box ( Read more... )