I'm just having idle thoughts at the moment about a shopping cart that lets you manage ads for products alongside the product you are promoting.

If the product went out of stock, you could automatically pause the ad campaign for that product. Kind of a self managing promotional system.

I wonder if it would be worthwhile?

I've just taken a quick look at the video promoting CushyCMS. It seems like a really good way to add content management to websites that have static web pages - but for some reason it doesn't gel with me.

I think it is because cushycms doesn't support page creation. It only supports editing existing content. Probably a really good way to stop clients breaking web pages, and keeping you in business to create new pages for clients!

Today, there is a new internet browser on the block released by Google, called Google Chrome.

http://www.google.com/chrome

I've downloaded it, and am using it right now to post this blog entry. At this very moment, I'm doubting I'll regularly fire up firefox anymore. This browser has exactly what I've been looking for - a LOW memory footprint. It is running in 10MB of memory, where as most other popular browsers - IE, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Flock, use between 40MB - 60MB.

I have a multiple line service referred to as "Duet" which is usually used where a business wants a separate fax line.

I use it to separate my business calls from my personal calls - but I've always had one issue. I always want to receive home phone calls, but don't always want to receive business calls.

I hate voicemail. If I have it, I rarely check it, until it's full... I also hate answering my phone when I am busy.

But, I want to run a business and offer a good reasonable response time.

I just found a great way to streamline my requirements. There's a company called PhoneTag that you can forward your calls to, and messages are transcribed and sent back to you via email.

It's quick, and it means I get my messages when I check my email, without having to go through a clunky phone interface.

Today I put a photo I took of my daughter onto my mobile phone. The only way I could do it was by putting it onto a website and downloading it, and it spurred an idea.

If photographers offered their photos for download to different hand held devices free of charge, with a small branding message - perhaps as simple as a URL, they could tap into social networking.

It's old news, but it is now possible to get chromeless youtube videos. http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/chromeless_example_1.html

Add in the extra javascript support that is displayed in that sample page, and the ability to upload to member accounts from your own site, and you've got a great video solution.

I'm keen to add these features to my existing websites.

So, somehow I've become addicted to this silly video site called "12 Seconds". It lets you record 12 seconds worth of video, either streamed via a browser, or posted from your mobile phone.

And rather amazingly, I managed to quickly create a series of Ukulele lessons that take 12 seconds each.

Check them out here http://12seconds.tv/channel/michaelphipps

On a sidenote, I notice when I am limited by tools and time, I can get things done. When I am spoilt for choice, it overwhelms me.

This is a reminder to myself not to forget about crowdsourcing, using a service like Amazon Mechanical Turk http://mturk.com.

The 'turk' can be assigned small jobs that can be taken by thousands of people to get things done quickly. For example, a company called CastingWords uses mturk to get people to manually transcribe podcasts for a small amount of money.

I'm testing out an audio feature that http://essentiallyforwomen.com.au are wanting to implement in one of their websites. I've always had problems trying to get flash objects into Drupal, and I couldn't work out why.

I finally realised that everytime I tried to submit a page containing object code that the reason the page would just return a page not found error was because of mod_security (which is a library for apache to improve security of websites). mod_security was doing it's job TOO WELL of protecting my posts from strange code.