It’s a fact of law that when you put your garbage on the street, anyone can paw through it to their heart’s content. This can be a problem for two groups of people — celebrities and criminals. General Concepts: Offer a refuse collection service where the trash is not “thrown out,” but rather has its [...]
The other day, I saw a news release from the US Department of State about their panic button app intended for pro-democracy protesters in foreign governments to be able to wipe the contacts from their smartphone and prevent the government agents detaining the protester from gaining more intelligence about the protester’s social network. A good [...]
This idea came to me after working with a friend who is heading up a local charity and we were talking about fund raising. I’ve been involved with a few charities along the way, and I know that one of the hardest parts is connecting people who need to receive money from those who want [...]
Anyone who’s been working in IT knows that all projects either deliver late or over budget — or usually both. However, there are times when late is not acceptable (say, for example, something has been published in the Federal Register and must be complete by a specific date). For those occasions, there is an opportunity [...]
I have a few social networking accounts. Facebook, MySpace (a few, actually), Twitter, LinkedIn, just for starters. And it’s time consuming to go through all of them to keep up with everything that going on, let alone updating all of the sites as much as is needed to keep involved with the others. Trillian’s Astra [...]
From time to time, I play bass guitar for various bands in the DC area. After one night of getting stiffed over the door, I thought of using the web to help other bands know which venues are the good ones and which are not. From there, the idea grew into making it a two [...]
My wife and I are raising an active, inquisitive 15 month old boy. He hasn’t quite figured out how to pull off the “baby proofing” plug covers we’ve put on all the plugs, but that’s probably just because we don’t leave him alone with an electrical plug. However, his crib has a plug in the [...]
To start things off, I’m going to refer back to one I’ve already published: a way to fine tune Reply To All. To quote myself: So, here’s my idea. What I’d like is a dialogue (pop-up, new section in the client form, whatever) that translates all of the people who would have been in the [...]
I’ve decided that I’m going to challenge myself. I have a host of ideas — for products, for applications, for businesses, for services — that I either do not have the expertise or the time to stand up into a full blown business. But, I still think they’re good ideas.
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