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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 / 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 / June 21, 2009
trendwatching.com’s June 2009 Trend Briefing covering FOREVERISM. I like the trendwatching briefings: they’re actually insightful rather than wishful thinking; they seek to recognize trends rather ...
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rickColosimo / April 10, 2009
We’re running a logo contest on crowdSPRING for a social network-based site serving the ASD (autistic spectrum disorder) community. Besides wanting to see a greater variety of designs from differen...
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rickColosimo / April 2, 2009
Over on Simplifying Complexity, I recently doubled one of our software bounties from $250 to $500. Here’s a deeper background on the topic: Unlike people who use their sent items folder as a giant ...
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rickColosimo / February 9, 2009
A recent NYT Bits post describes Genius Rocket, a website that fits my early recognition of C2B (customer to business) business models as a likely future for the Internet. The first incarnation of ...
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rickColosimo / January 19, 2009
We had a previous investment in an online consumer products retailer. One issue that we were facing in rebuilding (unfortunately) the site’s backend from the bottom-up was re-branding the product l...
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rickColosimo / December 24, 2008
A recent Springwise newsletter described Perkler, a website that helps people (primarily Australians, given that it’s an Aussie company) manage their perks, loyalty reward card offerings, credit ca...
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rickColosimo / December 11, 2008
The title of this post links to the page pinged by a Facebook badge I just created. I’m considering adding these to our contact pages (http://www.imetrick.com/ and http://www.imetmikeprinci.com/). ...
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rickColosimo / November 14, 2008
After reading this post on Springwise (a site/feed I enjoy very much), I realized that I needed to post another orphaned idea. People have seen a number of “prepared food” offerings, where a compan...
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rickColosimo / September 2, 2008
I read somewhere (here’s one reference and one that makes it both positive and negative, and another – any other favorites?) of someone referring to the not-so-casual, i.e., intentional, dropping o...
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rickColosimo / August 24, 2008
Why don’t recommendation systems create, or allow for, a way to post recommendations that respects poster privacy? For example, I may want to post something about a doctor that I use but not want t...
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