TweetHi Steve, Have you ever stayed up late at nite pondering what the deeper meaning of 50 Cents smash hit “in the club” was? Is it a metaphor for life? Well maybe not, but this is the premise of www.musicexplained.net, developed and co/founded by myself and by my founding partner. musicexplained is – -a reference [...]

TweetYou may not remember Yub, but Yub could have taken off like MySpace — it was an early Friendster competitor as well. They focused on shopping, MySpace focused on Music — and the Music focus won the battle. Yub is owned by Buy.com [get it, "buy" spelled backwards]. Anyhow, I still like the idea. It’s [...]

TweetHey Steve, We run a popular World of Warcraft Google Maps mashup at http://mapwow.com. Although traffic has been growing, we’re looking for ways to take the site to the next level. Two major ideas are to: 1) enable users to embed portions of the map on their own sites and 2) translate the site in [...]

TweetSteve, I’m in the process of developing a Facebook application that helps students save on textbooks. The idea is that almost every teacher requires that you buy a textbook for the class, but many of them never use the textbook. I’m going to collect information on which teachers don’t use their textbooks so students don’t [...]

TweetThis post includes a new idea by me that’s a digg/del.icio.us hybrid clone for porn. Waleed’s email below in italics. My comments in email as blue text. Steve, What do you think of my new Web site, Ziizo? Unlike del.icio.us, Ziizo is: – A productivity tool (or a memory support tool), not a news sharing [...]

TweetHonestly, 19 out of 20 ideas or web apps, I will rip apart. Why? Not because I hate you, but because if you’re asking for my advice, I’m going to point out faults in your idea/web app, which are simply my opinions. This is so that you can correct them and hopefully have an app [...]

TweetMarketing or PR ideas? Overall assessment of your website, business, or app? That’s a bit loaded to say I’m an expert, but I’m a pretty smart guy that can give some honest opinions and ideas. I have 10+ years now in the web field, I know a hell of a lot on web startups and [...]

TweetI had an idea last week while chatting with Alex Payne, one of the Twitter developers. In the past, I wrote about how Twitter opened up their API for direct messages — which I thought was going to be huge and allow apps/services to be built-off Twitter (I even posted on how to create these [...]

TweetI should have listened to Fred Wilson a year ago — Guitar Hero for the XBOX/Playstation is AMAZING. I thought it would be corny, but it instantly turns anyone into a rockstar! If you love music and haven’t played yet — find a friend that has it and make a night of it. It’s also [...]

TweetA simple script that anyone could grab and put in the HEAD of their blog/website (or install via a plugin for blogger/wordpress/typepad). Anytime there is an MP3 linked to on the page (and/or a band or song), a little ‘buy now’ icon appears next to the MP3 link (or the artist/band/song name turns into a [...]