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Free Facebook Application Idea #1: Beer Ponzi Scheme

Another free facebook app idea:

• It's a ponzi scheme
• But for beer
• Beer becomes a "currency"
• Create a list of 6 people
• Send each of the six a "beer" and the original list. Tell them if they send each person a "beer", they'll get six in return.
• Person with the most "beer", wins.

Discuss and start coding.

Free Facebook Application Idea #2: American Gladiator Fight to the Death

Here's a free idea for a Facebook app that's sure to take off:

• a game
• That enables you to make an american gladiator
• Endow that gladiator with cool powers
• and one "achilles heel"
• and choose who that gladiator can fight
• Then, set the gladiator loose on the facebook world.

Cooper at space mountain

Cooper at space mountain
Originally uploaded by jimbler

One of the pictures i took with my cell phone in Disney last month. I love this kid. He loved the roller coaster.

Washington CEO: Microsoft to buy Seattle's aQuantive

Link: Washington CEO: Microsoft to buy Seattle’s aQuantive.

Cookthink: Finally, an innovation in Recipe Search

I'll have to come back to this one and work it over, but here's the quick description:

There are tons of good sites out there for finding recipes. Too many, probably. But, the data shows that people love to look at food related content.

For the most part, all the sites have a decent recipe search capability. Bettycrocker.com and Epicurious probably lead the pack, with a strong, multi-faceted search tool,  that provides a good lens into thousands of recipes.

Now, through a friend, i get the link to Cookthink. A blog/recipe search site. Its' search tool is one of the first real innovations i've seen for finding recipes. Now, you can find recipes based on moods, cuisine, etc. Moods is the only new facet. But, the flash based tag cloud driven interface is a new, fun (seriously) way to poke around in their library.

They need more content, though. UPDATE: just found the rest of the recipes. Good stuff.
 

Link: Cookthink.

saying more by saying less

Amen: Slant Six Creative » saying more by saying less.

peterme.com :: Locating value in interaction design consultancies

Thinking about this post a lot lately, for a number of reasons.

Recently, i've been trying to communicate to some folks at work the role "interactive services" (broadly defined) have in further defining the packaged widgets we make and sell, how the right services surrounding a commoditized thing, can transform the thing into something wonderful. I haven't quite made the case convincingly, yet. The folks i talk to all day have made their careers (and a lot of money for Enormicon)  by "talking about the thing" vs designing the thing itself. they're marketing/ad guys,  not interactive guys. I've come up in world where i've focused, or at least tried to, on "the thing itself". I'm still learning to bridge the communications gap.

Link: peterme.com :: Locating value in interaction design consultancies.