Follow up to last session:
Mamma Mia with recordable magazine insert
http://adage.com/madisonandvine/article?article_id=127708
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Miscellaneous Conversation:
What to do in NYC for senior citizens
- Nightclubs dedicated just for seniors
- Segway tours for seniors to prevent exhaustion
- Special hours at museums for seniors
- Botanical Gardens
- Patent
- Financial planning modules for students and young adults
- Need to incorporate in to high school curriculum
- School district involvement
- "Trust fund brats" – need to be educated
- Holyfield and McMahon evicted from homes
- Albinos of Tanzania http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/08/world/africa/08albino.html
- Toothing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toothing
- http://www.bluepont.com/index.php?affid=16
- Askjeeves
- Stormtrooper Costumes:Star Wars::Manolo Blahniks:Sex and the City
- Twitter – electronic medical database created using service http://twitter.com/freewareppc
- Rwanda and Uganda and Mount Kilimanjaro cell phone coverage something like 90%
- Delhi subway cell phone coverage
- Lavalife http://www.onlinedatingmagazine.com/datingservicereviews/lavalifereview.html
- Opposite side license places for china/italy
- My Marlon My Brando http://www.tribecafilmfestival.org/filmguide/My_Marlon_and_Brando.html
- Flight001 travel accessories http://www.flight001.com/store/index.htm?SID
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Coolest products/business ideas we’ve seen/heard of
- peer to peer lending for student loans
- exercise/progress tracking at gym (automated with web-based extensions), scan your ID and get your log updated with exactly how much you work out
- dorm-style living for young adults who just graduated college
- tattoo advertising on college kids
- zipcar
- auto insurance by the mile
- ‘Brightcove’ – streaming video infrastructure for large content producers like ‘Discovery’
- green tea ginger ale
- a car that parks itself
- super-sticky clay you can buy off of infomercials
- outsourcing day to day tasks with a social twist (outsource work to people in developing countries and help them earn a livelihood)
- community massage chair in office
- disposable plates from leaves
- personalized ‘insider’ tour guides
- personalized reels for actors
- exboyfriendjewelry.com
What are you passionate about?
- social entrepreneurship
- travel
- entertaining
- watching and discussing indie movies at home with a group of friends
- home improvement projects
- spirituality
- cooking unique dishes
- martha stewart
- adventure travel
- marzipan ‘mozart’ chocolate for coffee
What annoys us/needs improvement in our lives and possible solutions:
Hate throwing away extra food but too hard to find donation places
- Make food into non-edible products
- Squeezable products to recycle
- Prevent perish-ability
- Moldable material to hold extra food
- “Black Hole” a possible name of an organization to donate to
- Tax deductible donations to increase motivation to give away food
- Community weekend shopping trips to stores in nearby areas
- Online/Mail site delivery: DesiDirect
- Open a chain of Indian stores in high Indian population areas
- Lotion and sponge removal
- stockings or socks that make it seem like there is no hair
- Razor hair collection agencies
- Lukewarm milk makes you feel better
- Plastic shield with a cab button and a nearby restaurant button
- Hot air balloon service
- Flying personal helicopters
- Flaggable fill-up taxis (fixed start and & destination, leaves when full)
- Wind powered vehicles to ride on sidewalks
- Target marketing for menus so you can sign up for which ones you want
- Scratch and sniff menus
- Tasting menus
- Win free trips to other countries
- Donotmenu.gov
- Menus depending on mood
- Musical menus (cuisine location music)
- Cooking classes and recipes offered with menus
- Special slot in door for menus
- Coupons and sweepstakes on menus
- Social networking service for others in your building who like the same menus
- Party with every order
- Sticky menus that can stick on door
- All bathrooms are clean with stone filtration system in the soil
- Rose scented stones
- David Sedaris bathroom bag
- Bathroom that you can call to you
- Joshua Tree visitors must take away your bathroom remnants
- Moving dishes from the washer to the drier
- Losing/misplacing stuff all the time
- No funding for research
- Visiting a city and not knowing the sights and spots that would be of local interest
- Getting stuck in traffic
- No way of finding organized career opportunities in India for Indians who grew up in india
- People who no longer knock on doors for the bathroom
- Scheduling meetings across multiple organizations based on ‘real’ free/busy information of participant
- Taxi drivers complaining about accepting credit cards
- Dust on dark furniture accumulating too fast
- Air traffic congestion leading to flight delays
- Moving car in NYC for street cleaning
- No delivery of dunkin donuts coffee
CHACHA
https://www.chacha.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChaCha_(search_engine)
On January 3, 2008 ChaCha launched a new textChaCha service that allows users to ask questions and receive answers via text message. Unlike similar mobile search services ChaCha doesn't require special character codes to get results. A plain sentence question will get an answer along with a link to the answer source.
callChaCha launched its beta version on April 1, 2008, while discontinuing its less effective guided web search. Users can call 1-800-2-CHACHA and ask a question after the prompt. The question will then be transcribed into an SMS query. The answer then will be received by the caller in a text message.
What is chacha's possible business model?
- selling phone lists to vendors based on psychographic models created of the questions asked
- eventual subscription service
- ads at the end of text message – can tailor to individual
- deals with the phone companies to ensure certain amount of sms traffic
- Add credibility. what is the current credibility of answers? None
- add web and email and voice interface to ask questions
- allow follow up questions
- MMS support (pictures, sounds, etc)
- add premium concierge service
- add more languages
- allow personalization – tastes, location, ethnicity
- responses in a picture or song
- wikipedia type platform where people can post ideas to questions like twitter
- chacha tv
- reality shows
- interactive media
- chacha sports, news, trivia, travel, entertainment
- chacha the board game – like a scavenger hunt with questions and clues
- send ingredients and chacha sends back a recipe
- chacha as a clearinghouse for recipes
- chacha for animals
- email based
- audio questions
- video picture responses
- voice responses to questions
- flight information
- love advice
- instant messenger
- works in places without data/cell reception
- doctors diagnosis based on symptoms
- dating service (blue tooth phenomenon called ‘toothing’ also in japan similar service)]
- more than 160 characters
- chacha and museums
- chacha + google community
- chacha education for kids
- cheaters in schools
- market research
- international travel service
- gps connection
- translation services
- transportation services and directions
- who wants to be a millionaire CHACHA lifeline
