__Rahul

Actual article http://www.technologyreview.com/article/40245/

rahul.hnews (invite needed)

Carve out your niche. Google in your marketplace is not a seal of death - look at Zoho.

You have not detailed your usecase/OS, but do consider Amazon S3 http://bit.ly/fM7pm5.

Dropbox storage itself is hosted on S3.

Hmm.. now I'll wait for a 61 year old's thoughts on where social media is headed. That should be equally interesting.

Web/app stores = one stop curated collection with some potential plan for monetization.

You'll hear the word "curated" a lot in 2011.

The only thing standing between you and ideas is your own conscious mind. So you need to find a way to make it go away. Try doodling. A lot. Let your mind go and ideas will flow. Running, bicycling or skipping ropes - it could be any activity. You'll know which one works with you only when you try.

Ideas are often born via cross-pollination. Do stuff and read books, beyond your narrow field of expertise.

Internet/libraries are full of books about idea, creativity & thinking. You'll have to do several iterations to find a routine that works for you.

Yana - Yet another news app. Yet/Yep/Yes may work equally. I wanted to create a recursive name, but nothing pops up right now.

That I can boil water in an origami paper cup kept directly over flame.

You will find course material from MIT OCW mathematics to be very useful:

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/

Thanks!

Do make space for Alvin Toffler - starting with "Future Shock" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Shock

"God's Debris" by Scott Adams. Yes the Dilbert guy. It's available for free download http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gods_Debris.