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rickColosimo / August 15, 2013
This article provides a new and more interesting take on twitter. It’s like a present-tense exonet, very “now” oriented rather than library of knowledge oriented. I’ve stopped much twitter viewing ...
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rickColosimo / August 16, 2011
Radio this morning said that some LIRR passengers will get a chance to buy a ticket on the train with a credit card rather than cash as is currently the option. Two interesting tidbits: first, the ...
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rickColosimo / August 4, 2011
Here’s a great SMS (text message to the rest of us) idea that uses your phone to buy one-off tickets. This would be a huge timesaver for people in heavy public transportation areas, like New York C...
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rickColosimo / February 14, 2011
Sparked by a conversation with someone who has Netflix but claims the DVD player doesn’t work: FauxFlixster Someone who has a Netflix queue but doesn’t watch DVDs After hearing that this had gone o...
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rickColosimo / December 17, 2010
Several years ago, I had an idea for a tool I’ve called the “exonet.” The name derives from both being separate and distinct from the intranet/extranet and from the idea that our DNA is typically d...
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rickColosimo / November 13, 2010
Here’s an interesting take on my idea for an evidence-based diet: an app that spits out recipes based on ingredients you feed it. (I should really edit that sentence; it sounds like I made a pun on...
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rickColosimo / November 13, 2010
This fancy meal in a box gives me an interesting idea about how to launch the idea in a simpler version. Rather than go whole-hog to the full meal preparation and individualized diet => menu route,...
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rickColosimo / May 14, 2010
This visualization (far less interactive than the word “interactive” implies, IMHO) attempts to display the quality of evidence connecting various nutritional supplements to the ailments they’re su...
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rickColosimo / February 24, 2010
This BoingBoing post by Cory Doctorow briefly introduces a site/tool created as a result of a tweet he sent just a few months ago. Mekki and a friend ran with an idea I tweeted last October: “Who’s...
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rickColosimo / February 23, 2010
One of my favorite sources for inspiration is Springwise. The latest issue spat out a few interesting ideas. Mybrandz (perhaps seeking to be the “Bratz” of the investment world) is a stock portfoli...
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rickColosimo / August 21, 2009
One day at the grocery store, I was thinking about competition and marketing while walking down the cookie aisle. I saw the 100-calorie snack packs (a section that is now surprisingly large for a s...
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rickColosimo / August 17, 2009
I just got this cross-selling email from Basecamp today. I was thinking about it in the context of providing great outsourced workflow management in a package that is easyto use because it’s contro...
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rickColosimo / August 17, 2009
When discussing the recent presidential campaign with two professors I know, one asked me who was more “favorable” when it came to autism. He assumed that I would probably support the Democrats bec...
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