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			<dc:creator>Ben Popper</dc:creator>
				
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><a rel="attachment wp-att-495" href="http://www.betabeat.com/2011/02/24/from-the-creator-of-nerd-valentine-an-internet-wishlist/wish-list/"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-495" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;" title="wish list" src="http://nyobetabeat.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/wish-list.gif?w=300&h=268" alt="" width="300" height="268" /></a>Local creative strategist <a href="http://www.observer.com/2011/tech/ny-nerd-find-internet-gold-geeks-guide-valentines-day">Amrit Richmond won the web's heart with Nerd Valentine</a>, a gift guide for geeks that went viral leading up to the holiday.</p>
<p>The project received 425,000+ page views from 40,000+ unique nerds around the world in the few weeks it ran.</p>
<p>Richmond put her other projects on the back burner while dealing with the flood of interest in that site. But didn't take long to launch her next project, <a href="http://theinternetwishlist.com/">The Internet Wishlist</a>, which has been burning up Twitter and Facebook since going live this morning.</p>
<p>"In a world of me-too startups, I hope this new project inspires entrepreneurs, developers and designers to innovate and build the products and features that people want," Richmond told <em>The Observer</em> in an email.</p>
<p>Incubating ideas is what the startup scene is all about, and Richmond's approach is refreshingly open-ended. She hopes it will become "a collection of ideas for apps and websites ranging from web to mobile, realistic to imaginary, and helpful to humorous."</p>
<p>For right now the site just needs to get a critical mass of attention and activity, but it would be cool if Richmond built out verticals for different kinds of ideas and a way to for users to vote up promising submissions. The top performers might also be featured on their own page. Think of it as an incubator for potential Kickstarter projects.</p>
<p>Some interesting suggestions from this morning.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<ul>
<li>An app that can group similar tweets so I don’t have to read the same story from 50 different sources.</li>
<li>An app for finding babysitters. Location and subscription based service of vetted and available sitters.</li>
<li>A Shazam, but for people's faces.</li>
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<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>bpopper [at] observer.com | @benpopper</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a rel="attachment wp-att-495" href="http://www.betabeat.com/2011/02/24/from-the-creator-of-nerd-valentine-an-internet-wishlist/wish-list/"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-495" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;" title="wish list" src="http://nyobetabeat.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/wish-list.gif?w=300&h=268" alt="" width="300" height="268" /></a>Local creative strategist <a href="http://www.observer.com/2011/tech/ny-nerd-find-internet-gold-geeks-guide-valentines-day">Amrit Richmond won the web's heart with Nerd Valentine</a>, a gift guide for geeks that went viral leading up to the holiday.</p>
<p>The project received 425,000+ page views from 40,000+ unique nerds around the world in the few weeks it ran.</p>
<p>Richmond put her other projects on the back burner while dealing with the flood of interest in that site. But didn't take long to launch her next project, <a href="http://theinternetwishlist.com/">The Internet Wishlist</a>, which has been burning up Twitter and Facebook since going live this morning.</p>
<p>"In a world of me-too startups, I hope this new project inspires entrepreneurs, developers and designers to innovate and build the products and features that people want," Richmond told <em>The Observer</em> in an email.</p>
<p>Incubating ideas is what the startup scene is all about, and Richmond's approach is refreshingly open-ended. She hopes it will become "a collection of ideas for apps and websites ranging from web to mobile, realistic to imaginary, and helpful to humorous."</p>
<p>For right now the site just needs to get a critical mass of attention and activity, but it would be cool if Richmond built out verticals for different kinds of ideas and a way to for users to vote up promising submissions. The top performers might also be featured on their own page. Think of it as an incubator for potential Kickstarter projects.</p>
<p>Some interesting suggestions from this morning.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<ul>
<li>An app that can group similar tweets so I don’t have to read the same story from 50 different sources.</li>
<li>An app for finding babysitters. Location and subscription based service of vetted and available sitters.</li>
<li>A Shazam, but for people's faces.</li>
</ul>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>bpopper [at] observer.com | @benpopper</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
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