Time to release some bitterness. So Facebook has stolen my idea by introducing "Places". The people at Netflix who also own Placebook have stolen my name. I came up with those concepts and even the name many years ago. I remember when I was out of work for a while I was going to go at it on my own. I started developing PlaceBook. I even have part of it already developed. It integrates into the RideSearch model very well. I even had some clients who wanted to get in on it. Ah, the promise of a deal with Southwest Airlines and the deal with a Comedy Club circuit. Those deals just fell into my lap. Then I had some universities who were interested. The problem was I had not developed it fully yet. I had ran out of time and I had ran out of money and had to go back to work. I guess I am destined to be the guy who says "I invented that, but can't prove it."

I suppose it is a lesson to jump on things, but I am always not sure if I want to make a commitment like that. Should I develop and patent my "Shock Socks" to wake me up? I need it now that Holly is at work when I am getting up. Should I jump in on my Breakfast Courier idea - where people order breakfast from me and I go to restaurants and pick it up and drop it off? Or how about my Social Kiosk service for malls where I set up peoples blogs, social network profiles and family website photo albums? Or how about my home networking software that sets up on demand video chat with all devices? Mark my words, in the next year video chat will become commonplace. Right now AT&T and other services are trying to stall it as much as possible because it represents a slowdown in the entire internet when it takes off. The problem is, with Skype, Facetime and Fring the genie is already out of the bottle.

I can keep coming up with these ideas because it is easy. They are all the next logical step in a progression of business ideas. For me it is easy to see and I think others see it as well. I was ahead of the curve with placebook though. That was going to be the service that launched RideSearch into the world. The funny thing is it is picking up more and more people on its own without me lifting a finger. Every day I am getting over 25 people signing up. I wonder if I can ride the tail of location based services anyways? Eh, I should just forget about it all. I need to sell this site before it hangs on me like a reminder of what could have been. I don't like bitterness.