Possibly one that rewards people for developing marketing ideas, while allowing users to vote on those ideas. Not only do people like gambling (contests), but they're also generally bad at estimating probabilities. The voting feature will promote viral growth as people refer their friends to Snap to encourage them to vote for their idea.
Not only […]

The switch from Alta Vista to Google took me and the rest of the world 30 seconds. Now Google is in everyones system. And we know that GOOG doesn't provide the best search available. But GOOG is the pride of the US, so Americans stick to it.
My idea would be to focus on other parts […]

I'm kind of assuming that Snap.com is already planning on making the API for their various products openly available to the developer community - I didn't see it written anywhere, but it would seem to make sense (so correct me if I'm wrong).
Here's an idea - Use the launch money to runa a second competition, […]

My idea is at the end of the year Kevin and Alex, host a Digg award type thing. Kinda like any other type awards. Going down the list of categories and finally ending on the biggest thing that impacted the tech industry that year.
P.S. - I'm pretty sure this idea must have come up […]

Get into schools!
This is a v.low cost way to get more traffic. Think, where do a huge amount of searches take place? In Schools!
The Majority of Internet Users are young people anyway, and your sleek looking site will appeal way more to this audience than the primary looking 'google'! In the uk many huge companies […]