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99 Bottles of Beer

Submitted by: thecougar
Created: Jan 20, 2008, 10:13 pm

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My idea is a Facebook application where beer-drinkers could select all the different types beer that they've tasted before. Once the user has selected a beer, a picture of the bottle would then be shown on the "canvas page" of the application. On the user's main profile page, they could select up to 3 of their favorite beers to display to their friends. Of course, as users added beers to their pages, a notice would be broadcast to the user's friends, which would help to virally spread the application throughout the social graph. The monetization would come through the standard Facebook ad revenue models.

I thought of this idea when I was...

Remembering back to a college apartment that had a shelf that displayed the coolest empty beer bottles that they had tried. It also seem like a simple way to capitalize on the popularity of the Facebook application platform.

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Comments Posted

PhilipH Posted: January 22, 2008, 6:52 pm

How about a featured beer each week?

ccozad Posted: January 23, 2008, 12:44 pm

Clear user and reasonable to implement. I love it :)

Callum Posted: January 23, 2008, 1:03 pm

good idea I've seen something similar done with wine I've seen

http://hs.facebook.c...7&b&ref=pd

however I've not come across a beer version.

PeeJayEl Posted: January 23, 2008, 6:52 pm

I think FB might be the right venue for this, why not start an FB group and see what kind of membership you can get? Not much for crowdsourcing if it flies on Facebook. Good Luck!

TMentink Posted: January 24, 2008, 1:19 am

Why just facebook? I think its a great idea but why just take one user network. If you hosted this yourself, and gave code for people to post in their "profiles" on facebook, myspace, etc., you could make it available to all cummunitys. Just an idea. I love it though.

tlyden Posted: January 24, 2008, 7:01 pm

i can see it as a webpage with a social network add on

GroundLoad Posted: January 26, 2008, 1:54 am

Lol Cougar always has entertaining ideas.

CharonV Posted: January 27, 2008, 1:28 pm

Sounds inspired,

In my opinion http://www.diageo.com could use a bit of this sort of inspiration in their advertising campaigns. I would at least TM this idea ASAP.

Good Luck

fish99 Posted: January 28, 2008, 11:10 am

good niche and easy to do... another good one from the cougar!

thecougar Posted: January 28, 2008, 2:15 pm

Thanks for all the support, everyone!

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