I've been playing with some ideas about online news sites for some time now. One day I found myself at New York Observer website, thinking how hard it is for an outsider to get anything out of local news. How about a site that would be targeted to outsiders? It would probably be more entertaining than informative as a daily news site, but would provide an easy to access continuous long-term story for newcomers who would like to learn more about the background of some specific issues or people. read more »
Product / Service
Inspiration Stream
Posted May 24th, 2007 by anttihHave you ever had times when you could have used some extra inspiration and motivation to get you going? How about a website that is solely focused on inspiring the users who would bring the content to the site too. They surf the internet and if they encounter something inspiring they would post a link to the site. Site could also collect videos, articles, books etc with the same theme. Kinda like diggit with a specific focus and some extras. Money? I guess this one would be a mass site with the income coming from advertising and affiliate programs such as amazon has. read more »
Main idea categories
Posted May 10th, 2007 by anttihNow the 'ideas' have five main categories: business, culture, design, product / service, and technology.
Product / service: These are ideas about what to provide to the customer.
Technology: These are ideas about how exactly the products and services are built internally.
Business: These are ideas about how to make profitable business out of the products and services. This includes business models, branding, marketing etc.
Design: These are ideas including eg usability and aesthetic issues.
Culture: These are ideas on how to make the other above parts happen. This includes issues like organizational culture, structure, processes, leadership...
Antti
Your blog feeds from other sites
Posted May 7th, 2007 by anttihI know many of you have blogs on some other sites. At first I thought of users having their own blog here too, but now I think it would make more sense to just import and aggregate the existing blogs here using rss feeds.
So my question is: who of you would like to publish your own blog on this site? Or do you think it would make more sense to have site-specific blogs here too?
Antti