There are no new ideas, just ideas that the US Patent Office are taken in by

It's amazing how quick the web-lethargy has evaporated and how quickly the market moves in a particular direction.
Om just blogged on 3 new Web 2.0 developments and following the leads, 2 of them sound a little too close for comfort to the ideas I'm currently working on! I had expected I had a bit more time to come up with the demo (on mobile of course!), perhaps a year at the outside, but it seems like you get about a 3 month window, if you're thinking way out there!
So, next time you wake up with that 'Eureka' feeling, put the coffee on, fire up the PC, quit your job and organise a staff meeting for later in the morning.
Then have a breakfast meeting with the VCs, run a couple of slides past them, call your buddies with the news that you got $5 million, and clear the lounge for development.
You should be at Alpha by lunchtime, with a few early adopters, sucked in by the hourly blog entries on your website. The afternoon is hard, outsource the main development around the world and then assemble the beta in time for tea, demo using the latest mobile and video podcast it around for analysts and bloggers.
Early in the evening Om posts it on his site and immediately the messages of interest are flooding in. Set up an autoresponder to arrange meetings for the following morning, then take the team out for lapdancing until the early hours.
Next morning, wake up and by lunchtime you should have flipped the company!
Shower and repeat!