Spoonstein

Ideas

Tracert or Something Better?

For several years there have been IP tracing applications out there that would visually display where the trace went and it’s final destination. I’ve wondered if Google would do something similar to that with it’s maps.google.com product? That would be most useful to me. I wonder if their API allows for this kind of wild […]

Web Content Management On a Large Ship

Lately, I’ve been wondering what’s a good strategy for getting a large decentralized organization into the behavior of using a content management system. So far, these are the techniques that I’ve come up. What do you think?
Content Creators
Give the content creators a quick and easy “converter” that takes the content created by a user […]

Microsoft gives up on IE and invests in Firefox

Wouldn’t it be cool if Microsoft finally bit the bullet and gave up on IE and invested in Firefox? Yeah, that’s pretty crazy, but so is IE7.
What about all that quirky stuff that goes on now in the browser for IE users on intranets, etc? Well how about a plugin? Yeah, that means MS is […]

Movie Theater Subscriptions

I love movies and am always looking for a way to go to them at a lower cost. I don’t necessarily mind paying the premium to see them, but love saving a few bucks in the process. Wouldn’t it be great if there was a subscription-based model for the movie theaters? Perhaps subscriptions could be […]