Ideas that I WANT you to steal!

First, I interrupt this post with my lesson for the day: Even if you are on a roll when writing, stop and save. This post had to be written twice…the first version I was so involved in that I never even stopped to pause (let alone save) and one glitch in wordpress…poof! gone! So save. save. save. and save again. Now back to your regularly scheduled blog post*

Last week, I bookmarked a great post from Steve Woodruff about an idea he had for saving money and space on printer ink. He was frustrated with the fact that a large part of the cost was in the packaging – a package which was silly and unnecessary. The idea was great – and I loved that he shared it with the world.

Of course, it got me thinking about all the random ideas for things I have floating around in my head. And thinking about all the random ideas floating around in your head. We all have them – those ideas that we think are silly, ridiculous and crazy. The ones that we think people would laugh if we told them. But the reality is, 99% of ideas are thought of as crazy when they are first mentioned – it usually isn’t until it works that people begin to give it merit.

Unfortunately, a lot of us are also afraid to share the ideas in case someone steals them. We don’t want other people taking our ideas and using them as their own. We want our ideas to be ours! But, if they are just sitting in your head, they aren’t helping anyone. So I say we share them! Put them out there for the world to hear, see and use. Because the nice thing about the web, once it’s there it can never disappear…so your idea is always going to be your idea. And who knows? Maybe someone will want to use it and give you credit for it! I say we stand up and share.

So, in the comments, let’s share some crazy ideas that we have (they can be half developed, rambling sentences or just random “what if…” scenarios) and see what happens! I want to know what ideas you have for making things easier, better, more efficient, less expensive, more user friendly, less wasteful, etc…

I’ll go first:
I think that we need to develop one cross browser coding language/control. It is unbelievably frustrating to have to deal with testing a server in all browsers (mainly IE) and I think that if all the browsers could just come together and decide on one way to work – it would eliminate a huge percentage of web issues and cut down on development time for coding.

Your turn!

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