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Is Google AdSense making sense? To tell the truth, I encounter more than 10 Google targeted-ads per day, but rarely do I click them or  pay any attention to them.
Why?
Ads are relevant, but not catering to my specific interests.
Content-specific ads trigger only rational behaviors, while interest-specific ads evoke emotional behaviors. As a marketer, […]

I’m a big fan of user-generated-tips. Whenever I see posts titled “10+ ways to…” or “How to do….”, I’ll get excited, and check them out immediately. Contributors on Mahalo have been aggregating a number of popular tips found on search engines, but will there be any technique to automatically crawl tips-posts on the Internet?
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Always live in a world of information/RSS feeds overload? Wouldn’t it be nice to have a personal gate-keeper helping you find out the must-read feeds everyday? In particular, feeds that you are currently interested in?
Let’s temporarily forget about digg and techmeme. Articles that attract most people aren’t necessarily meaningful to you.
How about a web site […]

Actually, I believe we all are anti-spammers. We hate spams. We want to delete spam at once. We want to declare email-bankruptcy….
Wait wait wait, wait a second, have you ever heard of the line: “If you can’t defeat you enemy, then make fun out of them?” (of course you never, because I coined it […]

I love and hate sites of stock photos. I love them because they provide me with tons of materials/inspirations when I start a new graphic design project. I hate them because most photos out there are of .jpg/.gif/.png formats, which take me lots of time to edit.
If you have some experience using apps like photoshop, […]

Stop blaming why Techcrunch/Mashable/ReadWriteWeb never mention your startup. It’s life. Life is alway unfair. If you’re not a serial entrepreneur like Kevin Rose, or buzz-generating machine like Jason Calacanis/ Guy Kawasaki, you should find a practical way to attract early adopters besides creating buzz. So, don’t expect the first flock of users go to […]

Errr,
Actually, it’s just a concept, not that you can start to delete some of my boring ideas here…
I read a post from Fred Wilson’s blog, in which he disagreed that Marc Andreessen turns off the all the comments on his fast-growing blog. Fred insisted that the spirit of blogging is two way communication, etc, etc.
So, […]

Yesterday I did a review on Spock, that’s a really cool people-based search engine. Though it seems only celebrities’ profiles will be shown on the first page of results, I don’t think that will be a huge downside. Since when most of the time people use a search engine looking for someone, they are looking […]

Hi all, it’s been a so loooooooong time since my last update on this site? Why? oh, last month, I just started a new blog, focusing on tech news around the world. To be more precise, I translate interesting tech news to Chinese (and with my own little opinion) for those who love […]

TechCrunch just covered a new startup - DreamCrowd which is similar to one of my ideas post here (Idea Day33: MyDreams). basically I believe share your dreams with others won’t hurt as long as you don’t reveal your true identity. Who knows one of your dream might inspire a novelist’s next masterpiece?!
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As title, there are tons of high quality blogs with endless informative posts, but due to limitation of RSS mechanism, I’m forced to subscribe the latest 15(or a bit more) articles. What a pity! Have you ever faced this kind of scenario: I want to check a series of previous posts, say 2 month ago, […]

It’s may not be a brand new idea, but I found it very interesting. Since listening to music is a very personal thing, I’m wondering whoever wants to be interrupted by ads (of course audio ones) before the beginning of each song? On the other hand, it’s truly a solution for labels to release their […]

While I was looking for some explanations of financial terms on Wikipedia, I came up with a question: why those valuable infos couldn’t be more organized and more contextual-based? Why not make entries as textbooks of various topics? I know there’s a section called “see also” and “further reading” and “reference”, but entries there are […]

I hate and like stock analysts, scarcely they offer me some insiders’ info, but most of the time, they just keep making noise. (Actually stock prices just go up “or” down tomorrow, you got 50% possibility to make a right guess. Everyone can be a stock analyst!)
So I would like to have a website where […]

Quite busy recently, but I still jotted down every A-ha moment. Let’s see:

Preview comments of posts. (a fastest way to preview comments of a post)
IInviteYou.com -> I invite you (and only you) to do__ with me. (goal-oriented events, like a combination of evite+43things)
A widget helps bloggers give away___ to their readers. (At least I […]

What about entering color and style of all your clothes in the wardrobe then the service recommending you the most fashionable way to mash up your outfit?
Required data could be from users’ suggestion or major fashion sites or even some paid professionals. If you think your mashup of dressing today is so nice, why not […]

I would like to know what I’ve commented on posts everywhere. Pull in my past comments with titles of commented article and export them to my blog (sidebar) so that I can easily track what I’ve said. Unlike coComment or Commentful which let you track a certain conversation flow of all commenters, this aggregator […]

Have you ever mail to yourself? You may do so only when your email server doesn’t work properly. Now think about this: I mail to myself something more than “this is a test”, something like “Make sure to visit grandma next Tuesday night.” And you won’t receive this mail until next Tuesday morning. Ding Dong!
Write […]

Hey ultimate bargain hunters, still don’t satisfy with all the search results you find?
Input two major identifiers: the product name and your acceptable price range, with other minors filters (optional); the service will continuously search new results for you. Just search and forget it and go back to work, until a surprising pop-up notifies you: […]

Can we have a ranking system that lists the top 10 or more most-clicked contextual(or banner) ads on publishers’ pages? The alignment can easily be done by big portal sites, SNs, or famous blogs while smaller sites may need to pull ranking info from AdSense/adCenter or other central ads providers.
How about a widget installed […]

Internet connection as channels of emotion flows? Everyone has various emotions during various periods of time. Now a small potion of people keep telling the world what they are doing on Twitter; If the trend continues to grow, maybe one day we will get use to keep telling the world what we are “feeling”.
People experienced […]

Family, friends, acquaintances are those you first call to mind when you need help. And sometimes some questions can only be answered by those geographically near you. So why not add a plugin to your IM interface, quickly broadcasting your questions/problems/doubts. I mean not to broadcast your message to all your contacts at one time […]

Idea Is Queen reader Sandeep Ahluwalia just shared with us a new idea which might sovle our pain of being multi-social-networkers. Interestingly, I’ve thought of a similar one before, I named it “Social Network Maintainer”, and wrote it down on my memo (title only). But I then gave it up because I couldn’t find a […]

As the title implies, it’s a niche of the likes of documents sharing platform. I did search some academic related materials on scribd, but the results scared me (surely lots of returns on popular terms, but some too difficult, others too broad, and most importantly, lots of docs come from existed content of other sites, […]

There are many reasons why people “don’t” write blogs. One of them is probably lack of confidence in literary talent. A chaotic article often scares readers aways. Magazines are so easy and smooth to read because every article has been edited by professionals before publishing. Editors, can you help bloggers?
Bloggers submit drafts to a web […]

Meg Whitman, CEO of eBay claimed that they (eBay) were the original social network site during Q1 2007 earnings conference call. No matter it’s true or not, eBay has been one of the most creative web applications since last decade. eBay is creating an effective economy on cyberspace. Every items we own can be resold […]

Could I just input URL of my blog on a search engine, then the system tells me: The following blogs contain content that seems to overlap/ be similar to yours.
Could this be done by extracting head lines, names of categories, tags, repeated words, links, author profiles and comments from one blog, and comparing them with […]

Whenever your name was searched on Google, you get a notification sent to your Google account. Won’t it be cool for those who are dreaming about fame and attention on the Internet? (Though celebrities are going to be bombarded relentlessly, they can filter certain sources of search.) Would you feel complimented if you know how […]

My knowledge of English writing comes from textbooks. Sadly most of these books are written by Chinese authors. So I totally understand I’m writing English mixed with Chinese flavor. Gosh, I only know how to write simple+formal English (with frequent grammar errors). Every now and then, I have to check common usage of words/phrases on […]

It’s a site to show off your boy/ girl friend. Basically, you upload pictures of you and your sweet heart, and this site would randomly pick up one as the best couple of today on the front page. Linked to the picture is a profile page where you tell viewers when you met each other, […]

Taking care of their lucrative potential (ethical?) earnings.
I had a dinner with friends tonight, and one working in marketing dep. told me that some bloggers in Taiwan get payment to write reviews or stories or any from of articles to promote a product of service from certain companies. It’s ok to do so. But the […]

My best buddy Ethan offered me this link (virtual bartender) yesterday. You input instructions (a full list of commands here), and Miss bartenders will follow your commands. (Don’t do evilly. :P)
Though this interactive ad of BEER.com released a couple of years ago, I admit I’ve never seen it before, I’m a lagger…
“Theoretically” it not too […]

Problem: Every new web startup requires me to sign up an account to have full functionalities. It’s a bore!
Solution: A widget to help you sign up new accounts.

a.) Save your information in the widget and tag them. (Information frequently required when signing up new an account. ) Input your real name, ID, password, and email […]

A gadget focusing on one functionality and cultivating it deeply sometimes achieves a big success. (iPod) Just make it easy to use and fast and provide high quality user experience.
Some web 2.0 advocates say that webs are going to be our daily life in the future, so it would be fun to see […]

Using Tumblr, you can quickly log your daily triviality or your favorite online materials. One feature of Tumblr is you can readily clip and paste anything you like to blogs. I’m more concerning about the forms of content, and musing the possibility of devising a super easy way, twitter-like blogging: A weblog with one-line […]

Again, one of many out-of-fashioned My*.* series. A blog that dedicated to record dreams? Are there enough people wanting to peer into friends/celebrities/strangers’ dreams? Do folks feel like an explanation of their dreams? Does it make sense to match similar dreams (topic/ key words)? Is it possible to make friends by sharing dreams?
At least I […]

Fred Wilson, the author of AVC, wrote this: “…The technology largely exists for this to happen. Society is moving this way. Superdistribution is the future. All we need is the technology to make it happen. It’s way more than an affiliate program. That’s the first step, but not the last step. Whenever you buy something, […]

I’m going to be a $50 contributor of RingSide Startup, but the one who really makes the donation is Kevin Leneway, author of A Startup A Day. I was participating in a game of “guessing which startup idea on that blog is a fake” and luckily voted the correct one. The prize is thus […]

This morning, a new possibility of BegForVisit + MyBlogLog suddenly strikes me. Under MyBlogLog’s current design, If I want to check a reader’s website, I have to click his/her icon or ID, and I will be led to a personal profile/ communities page. Then again I have to click on the link beside a […]

An interesting new startup, BegForPost, where you can beg influential media to cover your startup/ blogs. But I think even you beg Michael Arrington 3 times a day, he is still too busy to mention yours on TechCrunch. So, for me, I would like to beg readers directly, if one day I have no choice […]

Steve Poland’s new (not quite new now) startup, RingSide Startup, provides an opportunity for everyone to learn how to build a startup from A to Z, . He will disclose the process and progress everyday on its blog, along with advice/ comments from experienced entrepreneurs and VCs. If you donate money (ranging from $5 to […]

After posting the Idea Day25, in which I mentioned continuous partial attention syndrome in the end, my mind was occupied by brainstorming a way to alleviate this problem. And the following is what I came up with, though it’s not a web based idea.
As web workers, we are multitaskers, and often suffer from syndrome of […]

So here is scribd, youtube for documents. That’s brilliant, which makes me think: Is there anything that can’t be uploaded to the Internet and share with others and become the next youtube-of-*.*? It seems that files in a garbage can can also be users generated content on the net. I call this cyberspace recycling, RecycleTube.
From […]

To synchronize status of read/unread RSS feeds at different computers/locations, we can take advantage of the likes of Google Reader, Bloglines, NewsGator, netvibes, as long as there is Internet connectivity. It’s useful enough for most users, but not for the ones (me) relaying heavily on offline feeds readers. I endlessly face a problem of sorting […]

Many new startups can help you make choice of websites. StumbleUpon picks up websites for you, based on your past selection, your interest as others, or sites popularly ranked by other viewers. Most recommendation mechanisms of web 2.0 sites are derived from users’ “past rational behavior”, such as what SNS I have engaged, what key […]

Every time after a trip, you may bring back tons of photos with you. Normally, you need one more step to complete your trip - upload all photos to online galleries, and share them with your friends. If you are a blogger, you may share your happy hours with some additional story telling on […]

How about utilize crowdsourcing to write history of import events?
While you are engaging in an event, you can use your cellphone or laptop to upload texts/photos/videos/voices to your blog in realtime. After that event, you can recall what you still remember and better organize them and write them down at your blog. In fact, everyday […]

Other sites have offered more than overloaded stock advise. And still other stock 2.0 sites are trying complex models of crowd-prediction. (i.e. Motley Fool Caps, SocialPicks) To lower entrance level, and attract experts hidden in crowds, my proposed website collects only one type of information (KISS):

If you think price of a stock will go upward […]

2 minutes before, MSN Messenger notified me an incoming email from my friend. It’s a spam-like emergent call. I’m not surprised since she used to forward mails regarding search for somebody/something with certain attributions to save someone’s life, such as “Please send this email to your friends, this boy needs sources of bone marrow transplanting […]

It’s a crazy, wild idea.
Each religion has their own form of prayer, so how about a new “channel” that fits all prayers around the wold - speak to your God on the web. This idea might sound no good at all for conservative/serious religious group, but I’m not here to spark depute. What I’m thinking […]

Because of your job, interest, concentration, or connection in virtual social network, you may find yourself getting used to visit/revisit almost the same group of websites everyday. I would like to call this “comfort zone of websits”. If there is an incentive that encourages you to try different styles, topics of websites, out your […]

In addition to google AdSense, is there any way for individual to earn money from audience-targeting ads? Content of reviews is what I come up with. Before making major decisions, say buying a laptop, checking available reviews online is a smart move. The process of reading reviews is highly involved, not to mention the motivation […]

I believe URL (web address) is a potentially big market, since more and more people want to have their own domain name to be independent blog/photo-gallery owners. Besides, no matter web Apps or web OS are buzzy words or illuminators in the future, it’s an inevitable trend that every individual has to own an unique […]

Most webmail service providers have their own mechanism to block spams. This kind of firewall system grows stronger and srtonger through users’ submitting of blacklists. We delete/filter/mark spams everyday, but blacklisting info goes to the system itself, not a community. A man-powered mechanism of collaboration to categorize, describe or even sue those spammers […]

This is another niche of Ask*.com buzz.
Nowadays, we can almost find any information from the Internet, except some priceless wisdom. people get overloaded information, but never sufficient experience. The generation of baby boomer is retiring, and moving toward the Internet. It seems that we can leverage vintage wisdom of the ederly, find out an online […]

1. Of course, an ID to Sign in first (OpenID?)
2. A centralized service collects websites a user visited. Other info including: How long users have stayed, and how many times they have been there.
3 All information is encrypted. Only track owners can decode it by a pair of digital keys. (RSA ?)
4. Users can search […]

Some amateur artists of fine art, including painting/carving/sculpting/literature/architechture/music/vangard, are solitary (even caviar to the general), while others want to reach as many appreciators as possible, especially those love arts and don’t exclude the possibility of earning some money from their arts.
I’m no expert in the field of arts, yet I would […]

I like the idea of HeavenGate, from reader a piece of new china’s comment on the BusinessWeek report of Eone.com:
“I have thought about launching a Web site, heavengate.net (much better name), part of it will be an online or virtual cemetery dedicated to the passed away spiritual people, where families and friends will make […]

I’m wondering why we can’t post demands on a website first and wait for supplies matching those demands later?
For example, I want to buy a DVD of Superman Returns, so I post the name of the good, (with or without photos), the price (or range of price) I am willing to pay, and my location. […]

Ok, I’m trying to stop dig-looping today. Actually I got an idea derived from concept of digging, (no kidding this time), Dig-Yourself. In other words, dig your personal behavior patterns of interacting with various applications both online and offline. But no more harnessing collective intelligence is needed.
The “digger” is a program designed to dig, […]

I know I know, too many dig-clone sites, too much discussing about digg. But when it comes to dig-girls…

Diggirl.net, a Taiwan based startup, is a platform where users upload/link (seductive, sexy, sexual) beauties from online photo albums and dig/bury for photos they like/dislike. It’s not adult-only, but almost is. Unsurprisingly, it has raised […]

Case A:
A college student doing his own term-paper project wants to have information about web 2.0. He/she is very good at organizing presented information, but poor at data mining. Can he/she outsource the job of searching/filtering valuable information to other students or professionals that are currently on line?
Case B:
I want to bid something on […]

Recently, TechCrunch reported CHACHA, a manpower-ed search engine that offer human guides with interactive session. Comments are extreme. Most users got negative experience of the service, while a few others found it interesting to have human help behind a search engine.
It reminds me of an idea that several months before, I was day-dreaming about a […]

We all are benefited from open source software a lot, so why not have ideas opened as a member of open source culture?
I know, first of all, the issue of Intellectual Property, or IP, should be settled. I believe this can be done by some kind of public license like GNU/GPL. On the other hand, […]

Actually, I don’t like the presentation of tag cloud too much, as it always disrupts web sites’ visual design. But how about a web site full (and only) of tag cloud? Tag cloud has one advantage that clearly delivers the most important (or top rated, or most popular) subject on one page. If most majority […]

Let’s get back to the origin of this idea. In Taiwan, BBS (Bulletin Board System) is still a very popular service, especially among high school and university students. The biggest BBS, ptt.cc, is now made of thousands of forums. One of the hottest forums is the “Hate Board”, where users can share their hatred with […]

 
I’ve planed to continue the no-love-no-hate idea today, but since I’ve been busy doing arts design for my aunt’s Italian restaurant, the post will be postponed to tomorrow. For now… it’s time to sleep….
So at least, here is a quick preview.
1.The web interface will be divided into 2 parts, one for the light-side concept (white […]

 
This is an idea I came up with while talking with my friend, Ethan,  who was brainstorming for Internet startup as well.
The concept is very simple. I ask myself this question: There are lots of so-called web2.0 service at this moment, but which one actually serves the “basic need” of human beings, if any? So, […]

Um..wait, wait a moment,
How can a king lives without a queen?!
How can you forget our first lady?!
So, please follow me and repeat three times:
“idea is queen!”
“idea is queen!”
“idea is queen!”
Great, in honor of the QUEEN, I will write down my ideas about web startups periodically.
Hope you enjoy it, and share goods ideas here!
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