Small Ideas, Big Companies

Turns out in the past hour I've met strategists from eBay, Yahoo, Amazon. They are here to see the small ideas. Some of them are pretty cool. Here's my favorites of what I saw at the Flagr. Take a cell phone. With a camera preferably. Walk into a sushi restaurant. Take a picture of the front, of the menu. Of the food. Write a little review. Send it to Flagr. It puts it on top of a Google map. Very cool. Limited window to make money, though. This is too big an idea to be ignored by Google/Yahoo/Microsoft for long. In the meantime Flagr is it. Skobee. No, this isn't named after me. Heh. But, let's say you want to find something to do tonight. So you email your five friends asking what's up. That all causes a flurry of email. But, while that flurry of email is going on Skobee is listening in and is keeping track of what you're talking about and builds a site for you automatically (and, if you're clueless, it helps you find something fun to do). Box.net. Ever want to email a 200MB video file to someone? I have. Yeah, I'm an edge case but there are other reasons you'll need online storage. Backup. Moving servers. And such. Box.net is the answer. They have a cool gadget for the Google online page (I'm trying to get them to build one for Live.com) too so you can play with your server-based files while you check the weather. I met Michael Arrington of update, it's up). I said "I'll stay here and beat you." Scobleizer blog. He works as Scobleizer