Archives
- 25/06/10: Eminem’s “Recovery” is his best yet
- 10/02/10: Twilio ideas brainstorm: SMS, Voice, API
- 23/11/09: M&A/IPO = Broken ROI Model for VCs?
- 18/11/09: Guest Post on TechCrunch: Twitter And Facebook Turn Everyone Into An Affiliate Marketer
- 28/10/09: FourSquare API Ideas
- 20/10/09: Evaluating Startup Ideas
- 30/09/09: Best Live Concert I’ve Ever Been To: Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
- 26/08/09: Any UX / UI / GUI / Graphic Designers out there?
- 05/05/09: How to Startup! (not being a programmer)
- 04/05/09: Start-up Roadmap?
- 29/04/09: 100+ Web Start-up Business Ideas
- 29/04/09: IDEA #100 – Twitter License Plate social network
- 22/04/09: RE: The First Ten Things the New CEO of MySpace Should Do
- 21/04/09: Staffing Plan for a Widget Startup Company
- 07/04/09: BarCamp Buffalo #3 (May 4, 2009 @ 6:30PM)
- 04/04/09: If You Suck, You’re Dead
- 03/04/09: Google’s New Competitor: 1 Geek
- 12/03/09: Open Letter to Airlines (United Airlines et al)
- 05/03/09: AngelConf – my notes from Angel Investing conference
- 03/03/09: Advertising for Real-Time Search (aka Twitter)
- 23/02/09: Twitter Username Management Script (TUMS)
- 10/02/09: How to Estimate a Programming Gig
- 04/02/09: Must-Hear Music
- 03/02/09: IDEA #99 – Group Learning of Anything in Weeks!
- 30/01/09: IDEA #98 – Live Music Concert Tracking
- 29/01/09: IDEA #97 – Tagging All Photos with people, places, objects
- 29/01/09: IDEA #96 – Agent Intermediary between Celebrities & Web Startups
- 28/01/09: Google: Chrome should use Gmail as my default mailto!
- 28/01/09: IDEA #95 – URL Filter for filtering Adult websites using Google SafeSearch
- 28/01/09: IDEA #94 – Dear WTF (aka “Dear Abby for Techies”)
- 27/01/09: IDEA #93 – 125×125 Ad-ditional Info Skins (IntermediAds)
- 23/01/09: Virtual Gifts – icon clipart needed
- 23/01/09: IDEA #92 – Virtual BarCamp (meeting of tech minds)
- 22/01/09: ClickJacking – ideas for this sneaky hack (Twitter, etc)
- 22/01/09: IDEA #91 – Captchavertising (”captcha advertising”)
- 21/01/09: Exploit: Knowing the Websites your Visitors visit
- 20/01/09: 2009 Goals
- 19/01/09: Buffalo NY – Web, Technology, Internet Companies
- 16/01/09: Some Startup Tips from MyBlogLog founders
- 07/01/09: Buffalo Job Sought: Administrative Assistant, Customer Service Rep, Travel Agent, Insurance Agent
- 05/01/09: SxSW Music Festival and Why You Should Be Going
- 19/12/08: It’s Time for Twitter Premium Accounts
- 19/12/08: Evan – Twitter needs a better policy on Usernames
- 12/12/08: The USA Spoiled You- Now Pull Your Panties Up.
- 05/12/08: Make Money on Twitter, in minutes
- 11/11/08: 50 Days to New Years Eve – Buffalo’s Party: The Ice Ball
- 11/11/08: IDEA #90 – Footer Ads in Email
- 07/11/08: IDEA #89 – Clouds in the Sky
- 04/11/08: IDEA #88 – Rent Your Twitter Background & Avatar
- 31/10/08: Dear Rackspace: You Pissed Me Off
- 29/10/08: I’m a Mac, I’m a PC – Halloween Costumes Idea
- 22/10/08: Ideas for a better Hype Machine
- 08/10/08: Techies rejoice online to help low-income Americans get to the polls on Nov 4
- 08/10/08: Web 2.0 Innovation enters Deadpool
- 03/10/08: Google Image Search – Sponsored Link spotted in the wild!
- 02/10/08: Do you know a LAMP/PHP freelancer? Recommend them to me (for their sake)
- 07/09/08: Sponsor me in Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation walk
- 08/08/08: Evaluating Criteria for your Web 2.0 Business Idea
- 09/07/08: My Design Should Follow Me; “First Dibs” on my username
- 20/06/08: You MUST hear this CD
- 18/06/08: IDEA: Plugin to Sync Listening of a Song with Friends
- 16/06/08: Google Acquiring Digg – Rumor
- 13/06/08: The MSFT/YHOO/IACI Paid Search Consortium
- 13/06/08: The Yahoo & Google (and AOL!) debacle
- 12/06/08: IDEA #86: Mint.com but for Health & Fitness
- 11/06/08: The Best Viral Idea I May Have Ever Seen
- 11/06/08: IDEA: Must See. Must Hear. Must Read. Must DO!
- 10/06/08: 11 Years Later – No Credit Card Debt
- 04/06/08: Photo Printing Interoperability
- 01/06/08: Getting Lucky takes Perseverance: I Found Lucky
- 31/05/08: What’s your Life’s Roadmap?
- 23/05/08: Lessons on Search and the Simplicity of Google
- 22/05/08: IDEA #84 – Reskin The Web
- 22/05/08: Etailers – What To Use Twitter For
- 15/05/08: Do you know a Web GUI Designer?
- 30/04/08: Travel Tips: Where to Stay in Philadelphia; Bars in Philadelphia
- 25/04/08: Facebook API Question: Access of Friend Photos?
- 24/04/08: International Domains – which are actually used?
- 18/04/08: Skill Tests for PHP/MySQL/etc?
- 18/04/08: IDEA #83 – Digg for Twitter!
- 17/04/08: Inspirational Quote for Entrepreneurs: Talent & Drive
- 16/04/08: Script Sought: Web Address Error Redirect Service
- 15/04/08: Lijit Getting Spammed
- 01/04/08: Prediction: Al Gore to Run for President (again) in 2012
- 26/03/08: Idea #82 – FriendFeed the new Twitter? WTF.
- 19/03/08: Programmer Sought: In-Text Links Script like Kontera
- 15/03/08: Why the iPhone SUCKS. Anyone have Cell Phone recommendations?
- 13/03/08: IDEA #81 – iPhone Photo Plus [iPhone SDK application]
- 10/03/08: Twitter Syntax for Twitter Bots
- 10/03/08: CNET is best acquirer of Digg
- 09/03/08: Gmail Spam Out of Control – 1kb zip attachments escape Spam filters
- 06/03/08: Quote: Why Be An Entrepreneur?
- 29/02/08: F YouTube, Viddler Is The Sh*t!
- 28/02/08: Price Ceiling of Music is “Free”
- 11/02/08: Yahoo/AOL – I called it last week
- 07/02/08: Guest Post on CenterNetworks: Google Introduces Physical World Hyperlinks to USA
- 06/02/08: Get Neglected: Go Get Acquired by Google
- 05/02/08: Yahoo! Acquires AOL; slaps Microsoft in the Face
- 01/02/08: Dear WTF Chuck – Twitter has $5M, why can’t they hire a Sys Admin?
- 01/02/08: Dating Niche [free True.com marketing ideas]
- 31/01/08: When Did You Get Your Big Break?
- 31/01/08: Dear WTF Chuck – Still Using Cash & Checks to Pay Friends “Fee Free”
- 30/01/08: “Techmeme” Monthly Printed Magazine [opportunity]
- 30/01/08: My Guest Post on Shoemoney: Gaming Google AdWords
- 30/01/08: You Scratch My Back, I’ll Scratch Yours [opportunity]
- 30/01/08: I’m Rich, Bitch! [inspiration]
- 29/01/08: No Cell Phone Commissions on Amazon.com, Bleh
- 29/01/08: Behind Every Successful Man is a Woman
- 28/01/08: iTunes Search Engine [opportunity]
- 28/01/08: I’m back!
- 02/01/08: Twitter Business Model
- 22/12/07: Google Ornaments – a Holiday Easter Egg?
- 20/12/07: Focusing Up: CNET – A Stock To Watch
- 13/12/07: Music recommendation: The Silent Years
- 07/12/07: Juno: The “Little Miss Sunshine” of 2007
- 06/12/07: Web Startup Ideas – The List and The Drought
- 03/12/07: Facebook giving stock to Universal Music? Full length songs removed from Myspace for Universal Music artists – Ouch to MySpace.
- 03/12/07: My MySpace Days Are Over
- 03/12/07: Jakob, Zach, Vimeo, IAC, and Corporate America’s Red Tape
- 30/11/07: Mark Zuckerberg: Some Personal Writings by a Billionaire
- 29/11/07: Made My First Million Dollars
- 29/11/07: Facebook Image Uploader – Java Applet – Replica Script?
- 02/11/07: Google’s OpenSocial API Docs now online
- 01/11/07: OpenSocial — Now who’s going to write the first API documentation?
- 01/11/07: OpenSocial: JavaScript Code of Flixster on MySpace – Start Hacking!
- 18/10/07: Spring Cleaning: I just deleted 29 domains.
- 12/10/07: First-User Experience: Don’t Forget It, Entrepreneurs
- 01/10/07: MySpace vs Facebook – The “Duh” Difference
- 24/09/07: Funny – Send Manatees to Fat Camp
- 19/09/07: IDEA #77 – Social Search Engine (take on Google)
- 19/09/07: Wordpress Theme Wanted: 3-column
- 18/09/07: IDEA #76 – The Greatest Menu Meals (fb app initially)
- 18/09/07: IDEA #75 – Where I Hang Out (facebook app)
- 18/09/07: Startup Weekend Toronto – My Two Cents
- 13/09/07: StartupWeekend – Toronto this weekend, NYC next
- 12/09/07: ADVICE: Give Away Your Ideas & Take A Load Off
- 11/09/07: Steve Poland in BusinessWeek
- 10/09/07: IDEA #74 – FMail (Facebook App)
- 09/09/07: IDEA #73 – Friends Categorized as API to other Facebook Apps
- 06/09/07: IDEA #72 – Digg for Facebook Photos
- 06/09/07: IDEA #71 – User-Gen Opinionated Videos, Photos, or Text (Facebook App)
- 06/09/07: IDEA #70 – Voting for Video Stars (Facebook App)
- 06/09/07: IDEA #69 – Get Users Pulling Info From Others (Facebook App)
- 06/09/07: IDEA #68 – Instructing Users to Collectively Participate (Facebook)
- 05/09/07: IDEA #67 – Desktop/Mobile IM Client for Facebook
- 04/09/07: IDEA #66 – Polls on Current News (Facebook App)
- 04/09/07: IDEA #65 – Universal Login that verifies/ties your Digg, MySpace, FB, etc Accounts together
- 04/09/07: IDEA #64 – AuctionAds copycat using Affiliate Product DB or just Amazon.com’s Product DB
- 03/09/07: Domains for Sale: YouClips.com & UClips.com
- 31/08/07: Blog Day – Some Recommended Reading
- 30/08/07: ASK STEVE #7 – How Do I Get Blog Attention?
- 29/08/07: FUNNY: As Not Read by Oprah
- 27/08/07: Whuddleworld – TY Beanie Babies Needs To Buy This
- 23/08/07: Q: Facebook Apps – How to Sync FB Login with Non-FB Login?
- 17/08/07: ASK STEVE #6 – TinyURL (or clone) could become next Digg or Del.icio.us
- 16/08/07: Money doesn’t come easy, or else everyone would be rich
- 14/08/07: Tip: Don’t Ever, Not Reply to a Sales Inquiry
- 03/08/07: ASK STEVE #5 – Posting to all your Social accounts in one click
- 02/08/07: Great Daily Tech News Summaries – WebbAlert
- 01/08/07: IDEA #63 – Become the next Michael Arrington
- 31/07/07: ASK STEVE #4 – Idea Brainstorm for MusicExplained.net
- 30/07/07: IDEA #62 – Reincarnate Yub.com, but on Facebook
- 30/07/07: ASK STEVE #3 – Content & Community Makes Money for Resource/Hobby Sites
- 29/07/07: ASK STEVE #2 – Invest Your Time to Make Millions, Not Dollars
- 27/07/07: ASK STEVE #1 – Copycat Apps When Leader Exists: Not a Good Idea
- 27/07/07: Warning: I will rip your idea/business apart
- 27/07/07: Need Some Expert Advice? Ask Steve (me!)
- 25/07/07: Twitter – Become the (Facebook) Platform, For Mobile
- 25/07/07: Obsessed with Music, but Can’t Be a Rockstar?
- 24/07/07: IDEA #61 – Music Affiliate JavaScript Blog Include
- 20/07/07: Facebook Apps – Unlimited Possibilities
- 06/07/07: Some New Ideas & Startup Weekend
- 03/07/07: Summer Breaking
- 31/05/07: IDEA #60 – Video Search from the Audio
- 31/05/07: Inspiration for the day: PlentyOfFish.com $500k/mo 1-man operation
- 29/05/07: Paris, Britney, Lindsay — Will they ever stop drinking and driving?
- 25/05/07: CIHOST are SPAMMERS, UGH!!!
- 21/05/07: Shout Out: VERY Funny Ecards Website
- 18/05/07: ATTN PEEPING TOMS – Your Own ‘Rear Window’
- 18/05/07: Joost Deal Plans Exposed – Here’s The Text
- 17/05/07: IDEA #59 – Music News and Concert Dates for your Favorite Bands
- 17/05/07: Google Reader – Where’s the Search box?
- 12/05/07: The Largest Social Network In World, Untapped
- 10/05/07: IDEA #58 – Politics: Who Should You Vote For?
- 09/05/07: IDEA #57A – Social Networking via your RSS subscriptions
- 03/05/07: IDEA #57 – RSS Reader Influenced By Your Peers
- 02/05/07: IDEA #56 – Web Hosting Company using Amazon S3
- 01/05/07: Stats – I love snooping around
- 01/05/07: Posts/Mentions of Steve Poland in Tech Publications
- 28/04/07: Quote: Don’t ever let anyone tell you that something is too competitive
- 26/04/07: IDEA #55 – Flickr photo editing and printing software
- 22/04/07: Burnt Out, Refocusing
- 18/04/07: Web2.0forsale.com — Latest Listings
- 12/04/07: IDEA #54 – The Food Made Me Sick
- 12/04/07: IDEA #53 – Everyone Gets Sick
- 12/04/07: I’m also blogging over at WeBothLike
- 11/04/07: Justin.TV – Looking for Guest on Tuesday
- 11/04/07: Ringside Startup Changed to WeBothLike
- 11/04/07: Interactive TV Ideas
- 10/04/07: I’m the first Twitter spammer, ugh
- 10/04/07: Web2.0forsale.com Open Discussions
- 10/04/07: Web 2.0 Buy/Sell Tips
- 10/04/07: How to create a Twitter bot
- 10/04/07: IDEA #52 – Search Revenues Benefit Charities
- 09/04/07: WeBothLike Announced; Interviewed at CenterNetworks
- 09/04/07: Web2.0forsale.com Launches – Sell Web 2.0 Websites
- 08/04/07: IDEA #51 – Email via Snail Mail, for free!
- 07/04/07: Attn: Google AdSense Employee – I need help
- 06/04/07: TWITTER: Who wants to build Twitterbots.com?
- 06/04/07: IDEA #50 – Fantasy Sport League Widgets
- 05/04/07: IDEA #49 – Buy Music, Help Charities
- 04/04/07: First Twitter Bots Launched: Sports Teams, Weather, Stock Quotes
- 04/04/07: Who’s going to Web 2.0 Expo (Apr 15-18)?
- 04/04/07: Must-Hear Music 2
- 04/04/07: Ringside Startup, Take Two
- 03/04/07: Steve, where are the ideas? F Twitter!!!
- 01/04/07: Stupidest Web Feature Ever Created: Tag Clouds
- 30/03/07: Day 3/4 – $505, All $150+ contributors to get visibility
- 29/03/07: Make Money With Twitter! 5 Monetization Models
- 28/03/07: “Pull” Twitter Apps Not Practical Until…
- 28/03/07: Crowdsourced VC Fund
- 28/03/07: Day 2 – $480, Goals
- 28/03/07: Twitter – What Will Dominate: Content Push or Content Pull?
- 28/03/07: Being An Idea Guy Really Sucks Sometimes
- 27/03/07: Are you a Senior PHP/MySQL programmer?
- 27/03/07: Twitter Usernames Are Like Domains in 1995
- 26/03/07: Day 1 – $320, The Press, Plan B Options, Mike Arrington’s input
- 26/03/07: Y Combinator’s Startup School Event
- 26/03/07: My Favorite Ideas for Ringside Startup to Use
- 25/03/07: Ringside Startup Launches! 60 days to raise $20,000
- 23/03/07: 10 Twitter Hack Start-Up Ideas
- 23/03/07: Twitter API Ideas – digg, categorization, MyBlogLog
- 23/03/07: START-UP SCARS: 10 Times I’ve Fallen On My Face
- 22/03/07: Blogging a Web Start-Up with Expert Insight
- 22/03/07: IM Bots: (Almost) Real-Time Blog Chat via IM
- 21/03/07: IDEA #48A – Printed Volumes Of Your Online Reading
- 20/03/07: IDEA #48 – Personalized Printed Magazines and Catalogs
- 19/03/07: IDEA #47 – Video Trains and Tracking
- 18/03/07: IDEA #46 – Who Do You Vouch For?
- 17/03/07: IDEA #45 – Social Connections Search Engine
- 17/03/07: Which are my Best Ideas?
- 17/03/07: Help Sought: Do you know Wordpress and PHP?
- 17/03/07: TECHSTARS: Get $15,000 in Funding for Summer
- 16/03/07: IDEA #44 – Everyone’s An Expert
- 15/03/07: IDEA #43 – Everyone Has Neighbors
- 14/03/07: IDEA #42 – Audio Ads Network Provider
- 13/03/07: IDEA #40 cont’d – The Marketing Ideas
- 12/03/07: IDEA #41- Digg based on Your Friends and Network
- 12/03/07: IDEA #40 cont’d – Differentiate, Get Users, Then Revenues
- 11/03/07: IDEA #40 cont’d – Primary Functionality Specifications
- 10/03/07: IDEA #40 cont’d – The Functionality Launch “Essentials”
- 09/03/07: IDEA #40 cont’d – All Functionality and Features Outlined
- 08/03/07: VIDMETER: Still Early, A Competitor Should Launch
- 08/03/07: IDEA #40 – Vyous – Capturing Your View on Everything (events, topics, websites, businesses, products)
- 07/03/07: South by Southwest Conference – Starts Friday!
- 07/03/07: IDEA #39 – Vyous – Aggregated Event Photos/Videos (everyone’s views)
- 06/03/07: IDEA #38 – Invest in a Music Band! Fantasy Music Stock Game
- 05/03/07: SXSW Interactive Conference (Austin, Texas)
- 05/03/07: IDEA #37 – Viral Anonymous Positive Comment Network
- 04/03/07: IDEA #36 – Social Audio / Video Recommendations
- 04/03/07: SHARE: Web Start-Up Idea Websites
- 03/03/07: IDEA #35 – In-Store, On-Product, More Information Call / Text
- 02/03/07: IDEA #34 – Apartments For Rent (Auto-Updated Weekly)
- 02/03/07: IDEA #33 – Motel Pricing and Availability by Phone
- 01/03/07: IDEA #32 – Online Video Embed Code Piggy-Backing
- 01/03/07: IDEA #31 – Stock Market Social Media Tracker
- 28/02/07: ADVICE: You Never Hit A Bulls-Eye If You Don’t Throw The Darts
- 28/02/07: ADVICE: What Idea Are You Working On?
- 28/02/07: IDEA #9 Revisit: Online Videos Archived For Life
- 28/02/07: IDEA #30 – People Meter – Who’s Who Of The World 500 Ranking List
- 28/02/07: ADVICE: Build Your Own Name, into a Brand Name
- 27/02/07: What Frustrates You?
- 27/02/07: IDEA #29 – Your Vyous (comments) on Any Webpage
- 27/02/07: READ: Everything I Ever Needed to Know I Learned by Starting a Web Company
- 26/02/07: IDEA #28 – Fan-submitted Music Video Ideas
- 25/02/07: FUN: List Your Domains – What Ideas Do We Get
- 25/02/07: A Moment For My Sponsors: You
- 24/02/07: IDEA #27 – Lunch/Dinner/Bar Specials – Updated Daily
- 23/02/07: What makes a Serial Web Ideapreneur?
- 23/02/07: MUSIC MARKETING GIMMICK: Non-Stop Listening
- 23/02/07: No Sponsors Yet, Just Supporters (readers; aka “You”)
- 22/02/07: IDEA #26C – Job Postings – Details by Voicemail Message
- 22/02/07: IDEA #26B – Auto Details and Photos to your Cell
- 22/02/07: IDEA #26A – For Rent/Sale – View Info & Photos Instantly
- 21/02/07: IDEA FLOW: Comes and Goes
- 21/02/07: Do you feel great? Be around Great People.
- 21/02/07: IDEA #25 – Blogroll Advertising Network
- 20/02/07: LESSON: Finding Your Inner Jerry Maguire
- 20/02/07: IDEA #24 – Our Overlapping Website Viewing Habits
- 20/02/07: LESSON – 5 Deadly Sins for Blind Business Creation
- 20/02/07: IDEA #23 – Your Syndicated Chronological Life
- 19/02/07: Marshall Kirkpatrick: SMS/IM/Email Alerts for RSS Feeds
- 19/02/07: IDEA #22 – Amazon.com Social Networking
- 19/02/07: IDEA #6 additions – LikeLoveOrHate.com (adds user compatibility ratings; dating / event capabilities)
- 15/02/07: IDEA #21 – Remynders.com
- 15/02/07: IDEA #20 – Finding the Employee Leak
- 15/02/07: IDEA #19 – Bookmarks as Image Screenshots
- 14/02/07: IDEA #18 – Custom Music/Sports T-Shirts
- 14/02/07: IDEA #17 – Audio Chatting by Phone
- 13/02/07: IDEA #16 – What’s Going On Tonight
- 13/02/07: What Web Service/Software Startup Ideas do you have?
- 12/02/07: IDEA #15 – Ads on Websites Replaced
- 12/02/07: IDEA #14 – Ads with Personal Endorsements (filtered ad network)
- 09/02/07: IDEA #13 – I Got Drunk Last Night
- 08/02/07: IDEA #12 – E-Cards with Your Voice (and bonus ideas)
- 07/02/07: IDEA #11 – Classifieds by Cell – The Long Tail of Used Goods that has yet to Emerge
- 06/02/07: IDEA #10 – In-Person Social Networking – Event/Bar Mingling via Cell
- 01/02/07: IDEA #9 – Pay-Per-Play Videos (PPPV): The YouTube Differentiator
- 31/01/07: IDEA #8 – Anonymous Email Address to Your Cell
- 30/01/07: IDEA #7 – Video Comments Plugin for Blogs
- 28/01/07: IDEA #6 – LikeLoveOrHate.com (a HotOrNot for interests — products, fads, movies, music, etc)
- 24/01/07: IDEA #5 – Video & Audio Ratings of Transactions (Businesses/Products/People)
- 23/01/07: IDEA #4 – The MySpace Killer? Proximity Social Networking
- 23/01/07: IDEA #3 – ShareMy.net (”share my internet”)
- 19/01/07: All My Web Ideas, are all Yours
- 18/01/07: IDEA #2 – Print-On-Demand Books at Airports
- 18/01/07: IDEA #1: Multiple callers-to-text transcription software
- 17/01/07: Welcome to Techquila Shots!
