Post a possibly good app idea that you have no intention of doing yourself.

Re:Post a possibly good app idea that you have no intention ... by DanielBMarkham on Friday January 09, 2009 @06:51AM (#426474)

Ad exploder. An add-in for FF and IE that lets you "explode" ads by clicking on them, complete with sound effects and animation (or not). After you explode the ad, you'll never see any more material in that spot again.

I don't just want to not see ads, I want something with some visceral action, something to make the ads not want to come back! -- ie, something fun.

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Re:Post a possibly good app idea that you have no intention ... by rrhyne on Friday January 09, 2009 @01:16PM (#426901)

If you dropped the part about never seeing an ad there again, you could probably get display Ad companies to pay you for each explosion as a click, because if a user exploded it, then they saw the ad. Then, you'd LOVE ads!

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Re:Post a possibly good app idea that you have no intention ... by emmett on Saturday January 10, 2009 @04:45PM (#428381)

Ad companies would probably like that anyway...they wouldn't be wasting their money advertising to people who were not interested in their ads.

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Re:Post a possibly good app idea that you have no intention ... by petercooper on Sunday January 11, 2009 @10:29PM (#430033)

Much of the point of advertising is to convince (or remind) those who are not already convinced (or aware). Advertising is not advertising if you are hitting people eager to see your message - that's marketing.

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Re:Post a possibly good app idea that you have no intention ... by Tichy on Saturday January 10, 2009 @06:52AM (#427890)

I've been thinking about turning the daily act of email spam deletion into a brain jogging game (like the one that is selling like crazy for Nintendo DS).

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