Routine Order

The sad part is that most of it is free samples. I can’t see what the catch is, since it looks like you have to apply for most of the free offers.

The website does have a lot of discount vouchers which seem to be absolutely free. I will be watching the site to see how good it is. I regularly browse fatwallet’s forums looking for deals, and those forums are busy, and I mean really busy. I wonder why no one has come up with a simple service on a website. Here’s what I would like it to do: Given a person’s postal code, and a grocery list, it should come up with a list of cheap grocery coupons tailormade for that person with the best deals across the various shops near the person’s house. One would think that with modern technology, that should be easy enough to do. A google search returned no such sites. Lots of money to be made with referral links etc, I suppose. Someone take my idea and run with it, please. Oh, and don’t forget to give me a royalty for borrowing my idea

Time and again you might have seen people start posts with “Dear Lazyweb” on their blogs requesting help with their problems. The wikipedia defines the lazyweb as:

LazyWeb is the idea that if you wait long enough, someone will implement that wacky idea you had… (or already has!) Alternatively, that if your blog or other publishing outlet has enough readers, a reader will know and provide the answer to a question you are too lazy to research yourself.

So the idea is, you ask the collective wisdom of the interweb and get your answers.

There was this website lazyweb.org where you could send a trackback from your lazyweb post. The question you asked or the idea you propose would then appear on the website, and others could then help you solve the problem. However, due to trackback spam, the lazyweb.org website was closed on 25th April, 2006 by Ben Hammersley, the owner.

If Akismet can stop trackback spam, then maybe a brilliant showcase for Akismet’s kung-fu skills would be to use it with the source code of the lazyweb to reincarnate Lazyweb. Better still, maybe someone can make the lazyweb thingy work on pingbacks instead of trackbacks - so you could just link your lazyweb post to lazyweb.org and let the pingback do the rest.

How’s that for a lazyweb idea?