Web Idea: Memory Box

One of the obvious problems of getting old is you forget things, things that you treasure most. So all along I want a tool on the web that can help me to “store” things. And I like to call this tool “Memory Box”. The box, reside on Internet, can store photos, videos, music, voice-recordings, links, stories, jokes etc.

Then I share the box with friends, or let my friends to “put in” something to this box. For example, I can create a box call “University Days”, then my mates can put in their “memories” in that box … a box that stores all our memories of the good old university days.

I don’t like Flickr, as it looks like an album, same to Youtube. And del.icio.us is a bit too limiting. Hmmm … can someone help me to build one ?

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In the past 15 years, every year hundreds of IT companies around the world want to show off their products in a show call DEMO. But each time only 60 to 70 companies are selected, and in fact many big names you know now attended the DEMO before. These companies will show their coolest hardware / software products to a group of 700 investors, venture capitalists, journalists and industry leaders, to attract the group to invest in them.

After you’re selected to attend the grand event, the next challenge is to demo your product … in 6 minutes to the 700 experts – and yes, it is the famous “6 Minutes On Stage”.

What will you do on stage, and present to the 700 audiences in just 6 minutes ? Will you tell them how hard you work ? Or how you re-mortgage your house to finance the project ? Or how you left your another half just to finish the project ? No … of course.

In that 6 minutes, you will only show the best parts of your product. After all the hard work, what matter most is the RESULT – your product.

Check it out … http://www.demo.com/. If you have good ideas, may be you can join the DEMO China 2007 – the only DEMO outside USA.

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The other day I read my first newsletter I wrote 5 and a half year ago, and I found the following quote still applies …

“There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It’s up to you to find it, and you can.”

~ David Viscott ~

Web Idea: P.I.S.S.

Do you, ever in your life, need to check the schedule of the next movie, train, ferry, or bus ? How many times do you need to check it, in a day ? Is that easy to “check” ?

I do it a lot and found it a very inconvenient task. You know, first you need to take out your PDA, notepad or wallet, find the schedule table (be it a spreadsheet file in your PDA, or a piece of paper). Then check your watch, tell the time and check against the schedule table. You’d probably need to check multiple times as well since you’d misread the schedule easily. Why can’t we have a simpler system ?

Let me introduce My Timetable Checker (version 1.0) :

  1. Dial a phone number, or surf to a web page, from your mobile phone / PDA
  2. Select the item (ferry / bus to certain destination, a movie’s name etc.) you want to check the next schedule
  3. The system will check the time of your mobile phone, perform a search , compare your phone’s time against the schedule table and then tell you (by replaying a voice record or just showing you the information) the next closest schedule.

Isn’t it simple ?

And My Timetable Checker (version 2.0) :

  1. As long as you preset where is your ferry pier or where is your preferred cinema etc.
  2. The system will check your location, based on the GPS system in your PDA, or cell stations around your mobile phone.
  3. The system will then warn you that you are not going to make it because you’re too far away from the ferry pier, bus terminal, cinema etc. and suggest other schedule.

Isn’t it even better ?

Who’s gonna do it ? Let me call this great system – Personal Information Search System (P.I.S.S.).