Innovation Assistance Needed - Brainstorming Help

A cleaner interface that enables users who aren't comfortable with social networking but with more disposable income to use and enjoy using the site.

I would consider localizing the content and information. consider geotagging and offer users the ability to aggrigate around content and ideas in a localized manner. IE, a group of people who discuss or are interested in a specific topic can have the ability to meet up and locate one another based on proximity. Sort of taking the conversation to the street.

Jason, what do you mean by "localizing" the content? do you mean organizing it based on country?

Reddit, digg, newsvine allow users to imbed, link, rate and rank stories. You must do something different, and here's my idea for you. Create a system which identifies a percentage of saturation of a certain topic in the mainstream media, and reflect the same saturation on that topic with social news media stories on your site. An idea: ranking stories by their relevance to the amount of stories in the mainstream media about a particular topic. WHAT EXACTLY AM I TALKING ABOUT? For the sake of this example, let's say its November 7th, 2008 (Election day in the US). On this day, the AP starts off its news day with about 60% coverage of the national political scene, 20% covers entertainment or culture stories, 10% on disasters, crime, and the rest on other topics (interesting stories etc.). You take these percentages and reflect the same percentage of social news stories on your online network. The difference is: the stories can be submitted by users, linked from other websites, or reflect local or nation opinion from bloggs etc. Message me for more details.

I don't konw Woodie, maybe I would shy away from being a social network and call it something else; like a collective group. Where we are here to exchange ideas not to pick up the cute girl or guy next to us

So many sites are at Web 2.0 or News 2.0 that it's tough to find that niche. Associated Content, Backfence, Digg, Findory, Gather.com, Google News, Inform.com, Newsvine and I'm sure there are more... How about putting your own spin on "Google Alerts"? Have registered visitors link a calendar to your website. Search for news not just by thier "keyword interests" but intelligently search their Outlook calendars. For example: Monday June 2nd :travel to LA for biz meeting. Your reply in their outlook in box is news related to their calendar: I see your traveling to LA in 4 days did you know...Wildfires in LA, Sports in LA etc... As a business traveler it would be nice to know that the Dodgers are in town when I'm there or that Kershaw pitched great the night before. Or maybe: Friday June 6th: New product launch meeting Your reply: I see you have a meeting in 5 days, please see a link to an article on succesful teleconferencing; a news article on a local restaurant that could cater the meeting etc... Give them more then election coverage and weather reports, give them what they might not know they need.

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