Startup idea: What if you could interact with checked in people grouped by large area?

Foursquare lets you checkin to specific places within cities. What if, foursquare had a web interface grouping people by city and lets you interact with them collectively? Its like google groups, but dynamic, realtime? Please see: Idea #8 in Code playground

Connect realtime sales data with Chime,Hubnub,Infoxicate etc

What if… Etsy/Amazon had a way to deliver near-realtime sales insights to a group of observers. “Alert me if Etsy has sold more than 10 quilts in London today” What does it mean to me: The market for quilts in London seems to be heating up. May be I should start making quilts now, if [...]

Startup idea: A rethink of micro-charity through shared virtual ‘one-off’ use credit cards

Kiva model donates money to causes. i.e., cause comes first, money factor is factored in second. What if…I rethink it I load a specific amount into ‘disposable money’ that I think might help other people in need. Then it displays like this: +—————————-+ [Some bloke] can spare $50 for causes that he deems worthy +—————————-+ [...]

How would I design muckrack’s API

Given a journalist’s name, returns his affiliation and a link to his/her profile page on Muckrack. Given a media outlet’s name, returns all journalists working at this media outlet. Allow wildcard queries on journalists’ names, media outlets’ names. Allow listing by location and region. Example: list all media outlets in California. list all journalists with [...]

Startup idea: Social window, a peer-to-peer paging system

Imagine having the ability to open ‘two-way communication windows’ with the world, which can then be closed at will. Its like a personal livezilla implementation. Self-doubt: Does it seem like reinventing craigslist?? Answer: This is more freeform than the constraints of craigslist, and I am further afforded the possibility of closing windows I am no [...]