Idea Tagging

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 [...]

Facebook Should Buy 7 Billion People

Louis Adekoya — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 10:43:42 +0000

Just watched the demo09 presentation by the company 7 Billion People. They operate in the space that I have repeatedly suggested Facebook should focus on - Conversion. My thinking is that assuming it is technically feasible, adding Facebook data to the algorithms that 7 Billion People currently uses in customising e-commerce user experiences could significantly [...]

Another Somewhat Lame Location-based App Idea

Louis Adekoya — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 23:41:21 +0000

I have always feared that the much-hyped phenomenon of location-based services was destined to join a long line of technologies that never quite lived up to their hype. Of course I always hoped to be proved wrong but when TechCrunch ran a post last year inviting readers to send in their ideas for location-based services, [...]

Facebook Convert - A Revenue Earning Idea for Facebook

Louis Adekoya — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:50:22 +0000

Image via CrunchBase Happy New Year. It’s been a while since my last post, in which I explored conversion as a potential alternative revenue model to advertising for web startups. In this post I want to explore a way in which Facebook could make money from conversion. Remember that like Google, Facebook already enjoys a large [...]

Revenue Model: Focus on Conversion, Not Advertising

Louis Adekoya — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:18:04 +0000

Continuing my train of thought on finding new alternatives to advertising as a revenue model for web-based businesses, it occurred to me recently that yet another greater business need than exposure (which is what advertising gives to a business) is conversion – converting eyeballs to users or buyers. Businesses collectively pay billions to Google to [...]

Business Idea: A Marketplace for Project-based P2P Training

Louis Adekoya — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:30:52 +0000

If you are a web developer then you have no doubt rolled your eyes more than once at a suggestion by some wannabe entrepreneur like me that you should work on his brilliant idea for equity. We all know what your answer was – naff off or some less polite variation of the phrase. That [...]