This article, entitled "Companies I'd like to Profile (but don't exist)" contains ideas for 10 startups of varying viability that would make its author, a tech/business reporter happy. These are largely simple, good ideas, and I'd like to use many of them myself. The comments on the article list lots of companies that are trying to fill these empty niches.
1. Better and Cheaper Online File Storage
Photos, movies, music and important files take up a ton of hard drive space. I recently purchased a new desktop computer with a 250 GB hard drive, and the hard drive is full from recorded television shows that I haven't watched yet. Yeah, I can buy a network drive for my house, but they are expensive and if the house burns down I've still lost everything.
It's amazing to me that all of us aren't backing up our important files online regularly. As far as I'm concerned, the only reason is because no product has emerged to fill this tremendous demand, with the right features and at the right price.
We need a good product. Something as easy to use as the Flickr uploader on the client side, and easy web access. These tools need to go a generation or two beyond what xdrive is offering.
(via Dan Gillmor)
