Michiel

While stuck in traffic we were discussing internet in the car and I got an idea: what if the license plate of each car was also a Twitter account? So @NL45-FDX-2 for instance, it should be unique if you prefix the country code.

But I didn't come up with that many ideas, other then: send traffic information to car, warn driver about speeding, send driver a confirmation of a ticket (after driving through red or too fast), flirt with girl in other lane.

Any other ideas (maybe involving geolocation) or is this just silly?

Typical Type 1N startup personality (social transformer), the founders lack technical skills and want to focus on building the business. They have asked our agency to build the site (consumer-facing front-end with search, discovery and payment, customer-facing back-end for managing data) and do some of the marketing activities (like search engine optimization and marketing).

Is that a recipe for success? I was under the impression that an internet startup needs to build its own team of employees, including a team of web developers.

I have 5 years of experience with .NET using the C# language, and I am very familiar with the associated tools, from Windows, SQL Server and IIS to Visual Studio and MSBuild. Now I have a good idea for a web application which I could develop using those tools, but if (when) it becomes a success I will have to pay the Microsoft 'tax' eventually.

Instead I could try building it on other platforms like Ruby on Rails, MySQL and Apache and learn as I go. I love the idea of learning all that but I don't feel comfortable because I don't know how exactly it's going to work out for my app.

Picture this: you have (as I do) a MacBook Pro running OS X and all the tools needed for the experimental approach. Only a reboot away on the same drive is a Bootcamp partition running Windows 7 with the very familiar and free (for 3 years) Microsoft tools. Which one would you choose, the red pill or the blue pill?