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Forums as platforms: I think this is cool. Forums are natural community sites. If we can pair forums with a microplatform for branding remixing, like Zazzle or Make, the resulting explosion in consumer 2.0 products will be mind-blowing.This is definitely something I will be writing more in a future post because I think this is something BIG!Petabute Age: This is what I have been saying about date driven businesses. With increasing ease of getting data and processing them to derive insights into basically anything, all job functions will become more and more analytics driv...
Saturday, 28 June 2008
Friday, 27 June 2008
Idea generation #35: Markets for credit default swaps, reforming teacher salary and hacking the 'child care worker' industry
Markets for credit default swaps: The coming of the age of markets. We will see more markets developed in many many areas, including my favourite: personal carbon trading.Reforming the salary structure of teachers: About bloody time. Has some good ideas in there as well. For example, "something like Glassdoor.com for school". Worth a glance.Hacking the child care worker industry: Totally fascinating. Is this what BubbleGen means by thinking of industries that have not existed before? More importantly, hacking the system to better align the effort and rewards for child care workers seems like something worthwhile to do. (Original article about low salaries for child care worke...
Startup Idea #68: Personal carbon trading
This is a follow up to my idea generation post on personal carbon trading.Every time a new market develops, there are opportunities to create value in the new value chains. Every market needs research, rating agencies, trading platforms, derivatives exchanges and the actual exchange itself. With the development of the carbon trading market, we are going to see startups as well as incumbents moving into these space. Let's take a look at the current landscape for the trading value chain in this new market.Research: I have not seen much development in this area. In Wallstreet, we are seeing companies like Minitor110, Majestic Research, Instant Information using technologies to comb and deliver relevant results to the market. Where is the equivalent for carbon trading?Updated (3 July 2008): Found...
Thursday, 26 June 2008
Startup Idea #67: Predictive analysis on new data
The availability of cheap data is transforming job functions. A NYT article highlights how predictive analysis based on location data can assist companies determine the best retail location. This really struck my mind. Even the location manager is being affected by a data driven world!As data becomes more abundant, I believe more and more jobs across different functions will be required to understand data, interpret their meanings and deploy them in decision making. If this is true, then companies such as Sense Networks, Path Intelligence et al will be the new Googles of this data driven world.Currently, we are witnessing such a change for marketing. Due to the data analytics approach brought in by the likes of Google and Rich Media, we are seeing a traditionally creative -driven function...
Tuesday, 24 June 2008
Idea generation #34: Patient as a platform, solar as a service,
Patient as a Platform: I agree that we need tools beyond Google health to help us manage our health data, to be able to plug them into any applications that suits our needs.Solar as a Service: Even alternate energy is going for the service model. What else can we apply this model to?Kindle's missed opportunities: Connected devices are just for distribution. They bring new social experiences to the market. Reminds me of similar missed opportunities for digital photo fram...
Monday, 23 June 2008
Idea generation #33: AVC tired of 2.0? Happiness as business model and social change
Real 2.0: What a great comment on using 2.0 beyond fun and entertainmentWeb 3.0, Fred, is about finding ways to take that shared information and come up with solutions to the world's problems. Using social graph data to detect trends. Finding mental illness before teens suicide.Btw, you should read the whole post and its comments. It is a killer.Happiness as a Business Model: Another key edge competency, IMHO. | View | Upload your ownSocial Media for Social Change: A dated post but still relev...
Saturday, 21 June 2008
Startup Idea #12 (Part II): Branding 2.0
A very nice post breaking down branding 2.0 into 5 different components:************Listening. Communispace now has hundreds of private communities that its client companies are using to learn about their customers (.....). The other class of listening companies are the brand monitoring companies, and the track record here is great. Research giant Nielsen bought BuzzMetrics (...) Talking. Talking with the Groundswell is tricky, but there are plenty of agencies ready to help you with it. After building dozens of campaigns and sites, Blast Radius was bought by mega-agency Wunderman. Brains on Fire ignited the spectacular success of Fiskateers (...) Energizing. Ratings and reviews are the easiest way to energize customers to sell others, and the companies that provide them are taking off. On...
Friday, 20 June 2008
Idea generation 32: Widgets need to be changed, enabling conversations, link vs contenti
AVC on why widgets need to be overhauled: This is exactly the reason for my idea blogged here. Widgets slow pages down and can be distractions to your audience. We need to better integrate them into our content.Why companies need to have conversations with users: Enabling platforms where companies can leverage on to converse and interact with their users are going to be very successful.Link vs content economy: A great post. One that really understands the links are the currency for the web. One that Google understands perfectly. The question in my head is what are the other opportunities that a startup can build his business ...
Thursday, 19 June 2008
Startup Idea #66 : Implicit web
The idea of using the data collected from user's actions, without their explicit input, and using them to improve the usefulness of applications and services is very attractive to me. Many have coined this the implicit web.Tim O'Reilly has brilliantly extend the idea of implicit web to include using new extraction techniques on existing data to produce new information on consumers' preference. The example of Wesabe very clearly illustrates that our credit card information can also be part of the implicit web if they can be intelligently extracted.One other source of implicit data that I think holds more potential but has not been actively discussed (beyond reBang) is the preferences of users when they customise their avatars, vehicles, rooms or even pets.Clicks, playlists, search et al are...
Startup Idea #65: Transreality product placement
Product placement is becoming a dominant theme for in-game advertising. Spending on in-game advertising and product placement, $56 million in 2005, will reach $730 million by 2010, predicts Yankee Group, a Boston research firm. As virtual and physical worlds begin to converge, I believe product placement will take on new meanings and offer plenty of opportunities for clever and forward looking startups.reBang has casually suggested Transreality product placement as a label for such dual reality type of product placement. However, what exactly is transrealit product placement? They can be three types which are as follows:*********************Product placement: placing physical products into virtual environments. The most common type of produce placementsFuture product placement: creating physical...
Wednesday, 18 June 2008
Idea generation 31: Open source wii, threadless of 3D, 3D printing and product liability et al
CamSpace: Play any PC game with any object as controller. This is cool! With open documentation, I think we will see a proliferation of new content and controllers, all without the need to go through the troublesome process of getting Nintendo's developer kit.Shapeways: The Threadless of 3D objects, although the model is not identical. Worth keeping a watch.3D printing and product liability: Only someone like reBang can come up with such thought provoking idea. Any chance a new form of insurance product will come up and address this new problem?FriendFeed: The future of search? Is searching through your social graph the next big opportuni...
Monday, 16 June 2008
Idea generation #30 : Real data as gameplay
As I am re-reading through rebang's blog, I am still in awe of the kind of innovative ideas that seem to be lying everything. For example, he rounds up cool ideas from virtual worlds. In this single post, there are at least 3-4 ideas that I think make cool startup projects. Some might not be world changing like Google but should be interesting enough to generate some nice $."Sharkrunners: Realtime Data Used for a Game - if this had been my article, I’d have used the phrase “Realtime, Real World Data” since I find that to be a key idea worth calling attention to. Of course Forrest’s comment in the piece was what really sticks: “As sensor networks increase, I think that we can expect more games like this to appear.” Had I taken the time to post something earlier, I might have used an example...
Lack of posts
First blog post I have done that is personal.I have not been posting for a while as I was on holiday with my wife. During this period, I did reflect on the style of this blog and why it is not attracting comments. I came to realise, by comparing with the blogs I love, that I need to go deeper in my thinking. My current style is just touching lightly on the new ideas I found on the web. This has not do justice to the thinking I have done as well as to the readers, who i am sure are looking for more insightful posts.So, from now on, my style will be a bit different. For highlighting of ideas, I will use the Marc Carter style of blogging (see examples here). For ideas which I have spent more time thinking about, I will like to write them in the style of the Foundry blog.Let's see how all these...
