Vista has a problem on its hands, with the computer listening to what you’re doing or what’s going on in the room around you:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6320865.stm

“Microsoft has admitted that speech recognition features in Vista could be hijacked so that a PC tells itself to delete files or folders.”

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=418

“Based on the initial investigation, Microsoft recommends customers take the following action to protect themselves from potential exploitation of the reported vulnerability:

* A user can turn off their computer speakers and/or microphone.”

Great solution – just turn it off.

“Doctor, it hurts when I do this”
“Then don’t do that”

http://www.jott.com

Also, there is something called semacode which is (in my opinion) an easier implementation where you use the digital camera in your phone to take a picture of a barcode like object that represents an online URL.

http://semacode.org/

Since I worked with you on AboutCodes, I’ll reiterate my question from then: which comes first, the chicken (the users) or the egg (the advertisers)?

Think of a parallel medium: television. There are users (viewers) and there are advertisers. “The first television advertisement was broadcast in the United States at 14:29 on July 1, 1941, when the Bulova Watch Company paid $9 to New York City NBC affiliate WNBT (now WNBC) for a 20-second spot aired before a baseball game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and Philadelphia Phillies.” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_advertisement). The station, however, was founded in 1928. They had to wait until they had enough viewers before they could approach advertisers. (We move quicker today… don’t wait 13 years before you get advertisers involved!)

Now you’re recommending free advertising, which is a great idea… just slap some AdSense on those pages, and you’ll instantly get competitive, yet complimentary, ads on the pages. Advertisers can pay to have the AdSense ads removed.

I still think you need to offer something else… some unique content, or a unique way to deliver content, so users start using this before they use it to remember ads.

I guess think about where peer pressure rules and break into that market: teens, college students. I don’t know where to take it from there, but I think you need the userbase, first, then work on advertisers getting involved.

Another great idea! As a mobile marketing company, we are trying to educate the advertisers on the value of adding a keyword to their print ads for exactly this reason.

If you’re reading a magazine at a doctor’s office, you should be able to easily send a text message to get a link to the mobile site, or a coupon.

I think it’s just a matter of time before it becomes more popular. We are being approached more and more by newspapers and magazines interested in offering it to their advertisers. The issue now is that the advertiser needs to know this technology exists, and how it can benefit them.

Keep up the list! I’ve already seen a few of my ideas here that I never got to developing.

So, when it comes to “idea capturing”, if you will, at my desk/home office, I save all of the envelopes that get mailed to me every day. Well, only the ones that are pretty much blank on the back. After I get a stack of them, I simply staple along the top, and I have a note pad that I am able to jot stuff down on.

Yes, I could just simply use a “real” note pad, but there is something about the process of re-using the envelopes that makes the process of capturing the ideas that much more valuable in my mind, anyways.

Away from the comforts of the desk/computer, I really don’t have much of a “system” that is very reliable. Perhaps that’s better stated as a system that I use with any real consistency. I do like the idea of the AboutCode.com concept, and actually started developing a similar “philosophy” a few years ago, but it just didn’t excite me enough to continue pursuing. This, however, because it advances my thoughts, seems a bit more viable.

I could be wrong, but…