Friday, June 4, 2010



TechCrunch posted a great article today about the future of location based services. The author basically said that in a few years, all the (currently disconnected) location-based services will need to talk w each other.

My idea is that right now we could use a separate service that makes those connections for us.

Other companies are building their own version of this: basically making a bigger silo. An example of this approach is Apple's purchase (and upcoming implementation) of Siri. There will be a battle of the big guys for dominance and locking users into their system - sort of like facebook now.

My wish - is that somehow a separate 3rd party could track all my data, and give me insight / tips / help that the other services can't provide separately. Maybe Diaspora will have something like this...

Product Placement v2.0


Just saying, someone should start a company that makes it possible to switch out product placement in streamed movies / TV shows. So this week Super-Actor-So-And-So is drinking a coke, but next week when you watch the movie - she's drinking a pepsi.
This could start easily, with billboard and poster placement in a movie. It's not hard to track a rectangle and overlay a new image on it. Hell, the movie could be FILMED w greenscreen posters, and have the ads inserted on the fly. This could be an ENTIRELY NEW ADVERTISING method.
For this idea, if someone starts this business - I want in. I want part of the ownership for this idea. It's just too big.