Projects and Ideas
Filling the niche
The world wide web, as massive as it is, still has niches ready to be filled. Successfully filling these niches can be a business in itself. That’s where the Acai Berry Resource and the Maqui Berry Resource come into play. I maintain these two websites by writing new articles as frequently as possible. When I started AcaiResource.com there was less than 500,000 results for the term “acai berry” in Google. Today that number reaches 6 million, and it only seems to be growing faster. MaquiResource.com is at the stage the AcaiResource was at two years ago. Brand new and in a part of the web that has yet to really be populated. Rise to the top of the search engines before something hits the mainstream, and you have a better chance of staying on top of the search engines when the world starts to pay attention. At least that’s the concept with these two hobby websites.
Conservometer
I have submitted an idea to Cambrian House tentatively dubbed “Conservometer“. The idea is based on a website that logs individual and company efforts to go green. What technologies they adopt, what products they use to save energy/water, etc. The idea received a pretty solid response on Cambrian House so I kept the idea on the surface. On Google’s 10th birthday they launched Project 10^100, a competition looking for the best ideas that will “help the world”. Not, Conservometer is no earth changing idea, but it could generate some green comepetition between neighbours and competing companies. It may even add some accountability to organizations ignoring their carbon footprint. Project 10^100 stops accepting entries today, with voting beginning on January 27th. Winners get funding – so we’ll see how it goes.
–Update–
Looks like One Million Acts of Green touches on this idea – but doesn’t quite grasp the viral nature that could exist.
High end PC’s
Who actually has the time to build the PC’s Tom’s Hardware talks about on their website? If you’ve never been to Tom’s Hardware, it’s pretty much THE website to visit for computer component reviews and information. This idea is simple – build the PC’s they put together and sell them to the PC consumer that doesn’t want to cut corners. Not every Tom’s Hardware reader has the time to build a PC from scratch, but it can be guaranteed that the computers Tom’s team put together are far superior in quality and performance than any PC you’d pick up at a computer store at a comparable price. This would only really work for the highest of high end – piecing together $1500 computers just wouldn’t leave enough room to charge for the time involved in building the system. But when you get into the $3000+ price range, it doesn’t become as much of a factor.
