i just finished running in preparation for the starlight run. i ran okay but i was distracted because i was thinking about website ideas.

id add location based community to the friendster thing. people meet people through friends, true. they also meet people who happen to be near them in spacetime. the look of the site is so important. half of my positive vibes from friendster.com is that the look is clean and not gawdy.

actually id have the social network stuff added on to some older ideas of mine (see back journal entries). a neighborhood site where people identify themselves on a street map. neighbors who never met would meet each other online. the real driving force of such a site, and hold on this is the big idea, is greed. suburbs are about stuff. houses are packed with stuff. you sign up, then catalog what you are willing to loan to neighbors or possibly even strangers. on the site you'd have a whuffie factor and trust certifications, etc. people would want to sign up. i mean want to sign up. because it would cost them nothing and you might find out that your neigbor has an edger and you really need to use an edger but you dont want to buy one. or adhoc workforces - baby sitting. there are LOTS of stay at home moms, possibly bored out of their mind, who would use such a site. they'd use it because it would have webmail! it'd be yet another free webmail system. it'd also have blogging! but here is where in-house production has to stop. the site would use SOAP to talk to blogger modules written by someone else, and hopefully an assortment of other modules written by someone else.

i thought about the name citystreet but its already taken. city.st would have been a cute domain but its taken as well as citystreet.com. i thought about sidewalk.st but microsoft would probably not take kindly to that.

ohh and add Kozmo to the neighborhood site. say 'im willing to drive up to 7-11 and get an icecream bar and deliver it if you pay me $3'. kids would totally do that if they could get to 7-11 on their bike. or maybe the adults would start buying icecream bars in costco size boxes and sell them right out of their freezer if people came over. adhoc work forces.

okay this gets out of my league but communities could come together to really look out for their best interests. how about neighborhood insurance companies and mortgage companies?

the look of the site will be really important. also good names are hard.

when someone asks me how ive been, lately ive been saying i feel like im wearing a blindfold while on a boat sailing into oblivion. i think there's a wall out there and i would like to make an income that pays rent and food internet and new computer hardware and trips to europe real soon now.