Blogging and RSS is a relatively new and emerging technology. It’s simple, easy to use, and for the most part a grass roots, open effort to propagate information freely over the internet. I just read eWeek’s review on DEMO 2004, a conference for emerging technology, where speakers such as Robert Scoble, John Patrick and many companies spoke about blogging, where it’s going, and new products that are coming out.
A couple of the new technologies they demo’d there were quite interesting and coupled with each other they create an awesome resource, not just for spreading information but for getting information. They spoke about and demonstrated MoBlogging (posting from cell phones via an email address), WaveBlog (similar to warchalking where people put markers up where there are free wireless access points, Manhattan has a million of them), and alerting via cell phone when posts are made.
All this tied put together I came up with idea for a company/service. Let me know if you would use this. Imagine if you will a MoBlogging type service where you can make and receive posts from your cell phone in a real-time manor and you set up a Manhattan based restaurant and bar type blog where you, and others, write about restaurants and bars (what they like, don’t like, food recommendations, etc, etc) and you’re out and about and are looking for a place to eat on 57th and Lexington. You could post a question to your blog from your cell phone, and anyone subscribed to the feed instantly gets alerted wherever they are (work or home computer, phone, or other mobile device) that you have made a post. They read it and go to work for you, either recommending someplace or using their resources to find a place for you. They then respond to your post and you get alerted where to go eat, drink, whatever possibly with reviews. I think that would be great myself, you?
Article: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1528254,00.asp