The next big startup idea could be ours

Hey Guyz,

Wake up....!!!!

You gotto read this dude..!!!

Its about a VC asking for startup ideas that he is looking to fund. He put the ideas vaguely enough that people can use their creativity.

Jot down your immediate reactions on each idea and print the whole thing out dude. So that you can go through it again and again during different parts of the day. You never know when your mind picks one up as your destiny.
http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html

Some of the more attractive ones are:

"Simplified browsing. There are a lot of cases where you'd trade some of the power of a web browser for greater simplicity. Grandparents and small children don't want the full web; they want to communicate and share pictures and look things up. What viable ideas lie undiscovered in the space between a digital photo frame and a computer running Firefox? If you built one now, who else would use it besides grandparents and small children? "

"Fix advertising. Advertising could be made much better if it tried to please its audience, instead of treating them like victims who deserve x amount of abuse in return for whatever free site they're getting. It doesn't work anyway; audiences learn to tune out boring ads, no matter how loud they shout.

What we have now is basically print and TV advertising translated to the web. The right answer will probably look very different. It might not even seem like advertising, by current standards. So the way to approach this problem is probably to start over from scratch: to think what the goal of advertising is, and ask how to do that using the new ingredients technology gives us. Probably the new answers exist already, in some early form that will only later be recognized as the replacement for traditional advertising.

Bonus points if you can invent new forms of advertising whose effects are measurable, above all in sales"

Go ahead and read the complete article here.

Start posting your thoughts here and maybe we could develop the next big IDEA

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Updating you on whatz going on the professional side.

Guyz who've been in touch with me know that I'm in hyd now and am waiting on an immigration document before I go back to my job in US. I've been grouping with Shashank very often, discussing startup opportunities and scouring for ideas.

It was good to see Rama Chaithanya's enthusiasm for a startup, the last time we've chatted. I know that Vamshi also is working on a plan.