Travel agency stuff

Damn, there are a lot of travel search sites. A registry of travel search sites would already be a good start. Whew. SkySkanner. The obligatory HNN thread.

Online travel agency that doesn't suck

Not a single one of the flight-search services has any kind of memory for what you're doing. If you want to poke around, you have to keep re-entering everything; Travelocity will kinda-sorta remember the city you started from, but it will forget you wanted to bring your kids, for instance.

There's no service at all that lets you look for flights from one region to another. What if I'm on the East Coast, don't mind driving a couple of hours, and want to get somewhere in Europe sometime in June? Can't (easily) be done.

What if I want to research a trip, then go back next Tuesday and look some more? It's all been forgotten. The prices I saw last week (or fifteen minutes ago)? Forgotten.

I'm not even talking about anything else, just flights, although a real travel planner online would also be nice.

I can't imagine that wouldn't be a hit. Add forums and maybe some social stuff and bam, you're off to the races.

Webtoon reader

Maintain a list of your favorite Webtoons, then, in a framed viewer, scan through the ones that have updated today. Get notifications for erratically updating ones.

2. ???

3. Profit.

Ads, I guess, although there would be significant static from a lot of people even though you'd be putting their own ads in the frame. I can't think of a better way to monetize it, though.

Only... I'd use it. If it already existed, I'd already be using it. So ... there has to be a way to make it pay.

Another dark side idea

http://behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com/2011/03/uncovering-advertising-fraud-scheme.html

I18n consulting

From a post at Noticias Hacker - I contacted the guy in question and it turns out he's interested in outside help to internationalize his site. Cool, say I! A great way to leverage my knowledge of the translation industry and practices, while transitioning back into Web programming.

Old News

This is from Jacques Mattheij's blog, actually (here) - but I've been considering it for some time now, and maybe it's time to start considering harder.

The idea is to track news items over extended periods of time, and do a "how did it turn out" thing periodically. Wikipedia kind of does this for a lot of events as they unfold.

Anyway, this would also be more than just an online venture - you'd need journalists actually following some things up on some sort of schedule. It sounds like a good idea, though. (Though how you'd monetize it is beyond me.)

Write ebooks for Kindle

Just .... just. 350,000 sales in two months at 99 cents. Given that I could do the ebook formatting/publishing, thereby even cutting out the grand....

You wonder. How easily could you write a metawriter?