Unbundling as business concept generator

The post itself is not all that interesting, but the concept is: take a large-audience service and "unbundle" part of it in a narrow specialization, and bam! you might have something you can run with.

Patio11 and rainy-day ideas for process improvements

Patrick always has good ideas about how to run a modern business. Here are some ideas for implementation when you have some time.

Getting massive traction

A little slideshow (port-mortem) about Limk and how they got traction before going for funding. Thought-provoking.

Spaced repetition

Here's a fantastically researched article on spaced repetition. It's so well-researched I'm going to try this myself, using Mnemosyne.

It would be interesting to find flashcard sets, like, everywhere and use them for domain frameworks or something. Unfortunately there are no prepared Mnemosyne sets for Hungarian.

It would be much *more* interesting to do some kind of gamification site.

Gamification of quant skills

It would be cool to explore gamification of quant programming skills in a tutorial website.

Business and revenue models

For some popular Internet destinations. This is good stuff!

Dark patterns: the Machine Zone

Ever spent three hours before bed zoning through pictures on Facebook or one more funny post on Reddit?  Sure you have. That's the Machine Zone, and it's kind of a human failure mode.