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-the problem--
I want a working demo of using Adobe's BlazeDS with their JavaScript libraries and a ColdFusion CFC on the backend.
This past week I re-launched my new web project called mostrecent.net.
I'd done a small launch for feedback in December with mixed results. I got very little user interest but I did get some good feedback. Overall the site needed to be easier to use and their needed to be more of a "hook". In this case the hook is being able to use Adsense to make money.
The basic idea of the site is to let you, as an expert in your field, build a news page. On this page you can highlight whatever it is on a particular topic that you know to be important. This is different from a blog (where posts quickly disappear off the page) and different from a social news site (where you may post the most relevant article, but the mob decides what gets exposure).
The pages are Drudge Report style portal pages and are edited using a very simple drag and drop interface.
I'd be very interested in getting peoples thoughts as well as suggestions for future versions.
http://mostrecent.net
Thanks!
Ian
Prepay groceries seems like it could be an ideal solution for grocery stores. They then have predictable fixed income, they eliminate credit card fees which eat away their profits, they increase customer loyalty, and they have the ability to potentially offer more customized and personalized service to consumers. I'd imagine it working one of a couple of ways:
1. I sign up and I setup an automatic withdrawal for 75% of my grocery budget each month ($300). If I don't spend all of the $300 it rolls over to the next month, but I can't get a refund. Funds that roll over could either reduce the current month's withdrawal or perhaps a 5% bonus could be added to the amount as incentive.
2. I sign up for set my $300 withdrawal and the store gives me a bulk buyer discount (say 10% off any prepay purchase).
As additional incentive the company could provide highly customized newsletters (exotic fruit month, come in for free samples and discounts), interactive website, in store and online classes, ask a grocer Saturdays, etc etc. Basically specialize in quality, variety, and geek services rather than marketing and loss leaders.
My idea: to build a community of topical-hand-edited news pages. I want to start in the tech community working to recruit editors/experts to build pages covering programming languages and popular technologies. Think of it as an alternative to blogs, tweets, and social link sites. Here an expert can build out a page with the most useful links and highlight news items that he/she knows are important to the community. Everything is tabulated into one easy to scan page. This is all managed via a drop and drop interface.
The short intro video should give more context about how the site works:
http://mostrecent.net/help/introclip/
I'm just getting out of my "soft launch" phase and the JavaScript page I've built has already started making the rounds and gaining regular readers. It is a good example of what I'm going for:
http://mostrecent.net/javascript/
We are still in beta and more features are coming. My eventual business plan is to place ads on the pages with an aggressive editor rev share program. There are a number of pages at various levels of development on the site, but I know for a fact we still need pages covering ruby, java, flash, perl, lisp, tech startups, apple, c# and much more (in case anyone is interested).
Thanks for your time and attention! I look forward to your feedback.