6 entries found with tag idea.

Google Mail

Gmail users might be interested to have a look around Settings -> Labs to find add-ons the Gmail team (and also 3rd party developers) have made. Some of them could potentially be fairly useful, though one or two are slightly unusual... For example, "Mail Goggles" will pose some maths questions before a late night email is sent just to make sure that it's not something you'll regret the next day... Hmmm.

Now Gmail just have to sort out filtering the really obvious junk mail that creeps into my inbox everyday. They used to be so good. Come on!

Tags: Google, idea

Show us a better way

The UK government have come up with a good idea! Show Us a Better Way is a competition that invites ideas for making better use of public information. These could be for improving health, education, justice or society at large. Some of the ideas already posted are really quite good... The prize fund is worth £20,000!

Related: government, idea

Christmas gift ideas

Stuck for an idea and running out of time? Saw the Fisher-Price Smart Cycle on the Gadget Show the other day and thought it would make a great present for a child. A way to have fun and give them some exercise at the same time! Available in US and UK. More gift ideas coming soon!

Property boom indicators

Related to my mention of new developments near where I live, I found this bbc online article which suggests that the following are signs of an "on the up" area.

Ethnic Cuisine
Thicker telephone directories
Crowded public transport
Better school results
Neighbourhood watch schemes
More burglar alarms
More skips and scaffolding
Graffiti disappearing
Planning notices appear
More traffic wardens

If someone could somehow gather all this information, quantify it and create a google maps mashup, I think it'd be a winner!

Tags: property, development, idea

Rent out your parking space

Finding a parking space near your train station or place of work is difficult to start with, finding a cheap one is nigh on impossible. So, someone made ParkatmyHouse.com. Seems like a great idea. They take 10% of the rent, but that seems reasonable!

Related: rent, parking, idea

More Entrepreneurial ideas

In addition to the ideas I've described the last couple of days, here are a few more free entrepreneurial ideas. Coincidentally, the current series of Dragon's Den ended today but if you're interested, there's a sort of online version called Running the Gauntlet.

See also: ideas, Dragons Den, entrepreneur