Idea Tagging

Are Foursquare and Gowalla Missing a Trick?

Louis Adekoya — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 22:24:42 +0000

Perhaps Foursquare and Gowalla already have this on their roadmaps but it seems to me that they are missing a trick right now in not including a seemingly obvious feature. When I check-in to an establishment, the establishment should have the option of displaying to me a mini mobile website, to [...]

An Idea Shared is an Idea Improved [Video]

Louis Adekoya — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 01:20:16 +0000

If you ever needed proof that ideas are best shared rather than protected, watch this video. In it, a caller on Jason Calacanis’ excellent online video show – This Week in Startups (aka TWIST) – pitches an idea for what would essentially be an administrative tool for schools to communicate with parents as well as [...]

Business Idea: A ChatRoulette for Music Discovery

Louis Adekoya — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:44:33 +0000

It pains me to give this idea away (if there is such a thing) but no doubt people up and down the tech world are right now brainstorming copy cat or spin-off ideas to ChatRoulette and someone’s bound to have thought of this already and is probably working on it as I write. I suppose I [...]

Facebook Status Roulette

Louis Adekoya — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 17:27:00 +0000

How’s this for a fun (if extremely juvenile) idea for a Facebook application? An app that mimics the infamous Russian Roulette game but instead of a fatal shot to the head, the unlucky player has to post a self-demeaning Facebook status update. Laugh as you might at this idea, something tells me it is exactly [...]

Tweet to Place TV and Online Video Ads and Classifieds

Louis Adekoya — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 14:32:37 +0000

Sorry I haven’t posted for a while folks – busy building something for a change. Here is a quick one (idea) – enable small businesses and individuals to tweet-in ads or classifieds during a TV programme. The solution could also be extended to cover online video, especially live ones.

Build this and Grow Rich: An App that Tells Users What to Tweet

Louis Adekoya — Sun, 03 May 2009 13:41:31 +0000

Assuming you actually care what your Twitter followers think about your tweets, wouldn’t it be useful to have an app that does the following? Analyses your followers’ tweets and streams including the links they contain, to determine their interests and then tells you the strength of tweet you are about to post in terms of its [...]

Typical Conversion Cycle from #Twitter-basher to Twitterholic

Louis Adekoya — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:03:42 +0000

Trash Twitter on your blog and all but swear to never use it. (See my post here) Realise that no one cares what you think and that they all continue to rave about Twitter Quietly try Twitter to see what all the fuss is about Eat humble pie and admit publicly that you were wrong – [...]

Personalising Landing Pages with Facebook Connect

Louis Adekoya — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 20:35:02 +0000

Still on Facebook and conversion, what if people who click on your Facebook ad could be greeted with “Dear John” (or whatever their name was) when they arrived on your landing page instead of a generic “Dear Facebook User”? Facebook would of course need a user’s permission to do this and if they hadn’t received it, [...]

How Would You Implement This with Twitter – #TweetMeWhen?

Louis Adekoya — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 01:30:40 +0000

I am new to Twitter so I am still learning to tell my RTs from my @replies, DMs and hashtags – or is that #tags? Anyway, I think there might be some combination of all these Twitter elements that might enable it to support the implementation of a tool that I have long wished was [...]

A Facebook App that I Would Pay for with Zuora’s Z-Commerce

Louis Adekoya — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 01:00:44 +0000

One of my favourite products from this year’s Demo show was Zuora’s Z-Commerce for Facebook. With Facebook having failed to give application developers a way to sell their apps to users a la the iPhone’s app store, most of the developers have had to resort to free, frivolous apps that they then look to monetise [...]