• Regarding JK Rowling's recent outing as the mystery book writer (and the book's instant boost from relatively unknown to best-seller):
  • What if a famous author found a book they liked that nobody was buying, pretended to be the author for a week (after asking the original author) to get the real author huge sales, and then announced the truth?
    • Then offered refunds to anyone who wasn't amused so there wouldn't be any legal troubles. They would make enough in the ensuing frenzy that they would make a profit even with the refunds (which I doubt there would be many).
• A water focused design/ engineering firm to assess water resources, consulting: to make water saving recommendations to institutions. Public advocacy.
• A network wide bulletin, password protected where you can make lists and post items onto lists and an email will be generated to all affiliates if wanted. Lists useful in this endeavor: Looking for following missing items list: Needed from next grocery store trip:
• M-commerce is mobile electronic commerce. Using our cellphones for transactions like Google wallet, one can eliminate the need to carry debit or credit cards, although cash is irrefutably not going anywhere for a while. Additionally, the platform behaves under the assumption that your mobility will add another dimension to your purchasing experience, in the way that Grindr has added another dimension to social networking through proximity information.
  • The idea of walking around carrying your Amazon or w/e wishlist in your phone, alerting merchants in a radial vicinity who carry items you want might be incentivized to throw tailored offers and coupons in your direction if you wish to receive them.
  • The app would, if enabled so: alert you that an item on your wishlist is in stock within a convenient proximity. This would be the ultimate window shoppers app, walking through a mall or along shops at a boardwalk.
  • Of course, mobility and the internet + wifi means that you don't need to be anywhere near a store to place an order, but merchants who want to bring consumers into a store so their wares can be seen in the physical would be incentivized to fish for customers in means that would be an extension of the sign in a store window.
  • Amazon universal wish-lists need more development: I like using them to categorize what I want my price and sort them in different lists, I would just like 3 things:
    • To be updated when an item on my wishlist is out of stock or back in stock or when the item will be in stock again.
    • Perhaps amazon can recommend me a place I can get the item cheaper and make that place the default price in the wishlist.
    • To add tags to items so I don't have to move them into separate labeled lists. There is always overlap, after all.

Social Media

• Would be nice if G+ could import friends from Facebook and followings from Twitter autonomously. I would need automated import of them to G+, much like how Spotify imports iTunes songs. I would love to tweet through F+ and replace Facebook entirely. So I have one interface replacing two.
• (1)Commercial or organizational emails need a link to click at the bottom of each e-mail to change the frequency of updates to yearly or monthly or weekly or daily or no limit from what ever the frequency was before. This customization would prevent people from labeling updates as spam or unsubscribing. People need to be able to control how they receive information in parity with their inherent control over what they receive. (2)The ability to redirect updates to another email proven to be the same owner of the previous email is also necessary.
• on Listography: crossing something off the list or checking it brings it to the top.