Well this weekend I read about my new favorite exchange that I really hope takes off.  Yoonew, is an exchange for sports tickets, that is focusing for now on Super Bowl 42 tickets.  This is a great way for fans to potentially get tickets to watch their teams in big games, at a fraction of the costs.  For example, I can buy tickets to watch the Seahawks (if they make it) in this years Super bowl, for about half the price of face value and exponentially cheaper than the after market value.  However, if the Hawks were not to make it to the Super Bowl, I would be out a few hundred dollars.  You can also buy futures for tickets and still make money if the prices of tickets were to go down.

I think this is a phenomenal business idea and with fans always feeling more optimistic about their team, than the odds actually are, this will lead to alot of trading if the business can get to a critical mass.  It can also lead to an affordable way for people to experience dream events.  I hope the word spreads and this exchange takes off, because everyone wins, as opposed to only a select few ticket brokers winning at this time.

Tech Crunch Story

What if I could get the news on my iPod each morning before I wanted to run.  What if I could get the right ammount of information on there, so that I don’t have to miss out on the last 10 minutes of the news when I get home and want to get ready.  Here’s the idea:

You create a network of news tidbits.  You break the news down into as small as segments as you can ie, news about each different sports team is broken down into 30 second clips and therefore rather than having to listen to 2 minutes worth of information I don’t care about, I just choose which teams or sports I want to hear about.  The same can be done with weather, local news, world news, business news, really anything.  The information is then broken down into very specific 15 second- to 1 minute clips and you select which items you want downloaded, and how long you want the podcast to be.  The program then selects the items you want and creates a news station that is just for you and only has the news you want on it. 

Each morning the podcast is automatically downloaded to your iPod and all you have to do is grab your iPod and run! 

Who knows you could even include some encouragement on there from sponsored partners.  Also, I bet you could play ads to help with the revenue.  People would put up with some ads, just as long as it wasn’t more than say 30 seconds per 10 minutes or so.  Plus the web portal where you select your news can have ads.  Maybe you could charge a small fee as well.  The details can be worked out later.  For now,  who wants to help me build this? :)

My friend Lach sells (?) a few shirts through Spreadshirt while I’m on the subject.  I’m a big fan of the the Forks shirt he’s selling.