I signed up for Cambrian House last night in an attempt to see if ideas are in fact worth anything. Cambrian House is attempting to capitalize on the “crowdsourcing” movement, which merges a few concepts like “Wisdom of crowds” and open-source software, to enable teams to come together and develop commercially viable products. I’m intrigued because I’ve got a few ideas kicking around and figure it’s worth a shot to see if they can be developed through Cambrian House where otherwise they would languish in my project queue probably never to see the light of day.

I can’t say I’m surprised to see Kiko for sale on eBay (via OnStartups). Not that I thought Kiko was bad (though it ran up against Google as noted previously), but because I agree with Dharmesh and think this will become a rather common occurence in the not so distant future. With all of these Web 2.0 sites coming out, it’s easy for them to fade away and get lost in the noise.

Hello activeCollab. I’ve been wanting to have more projects in Basecamp for a while, but am extremely resistant to shelling out money on tools. Now, thanks to activeCollab, I don’t have to. I downloaded it earlier this week and was going to set it up on one of my domains, then I noticed that it was a one-click install on Dreamhost (affiliate). Even better! 5 minutes and it was ready to go.

Oh, and of course, if you’ve followed this blog for a while, you know that whenver I go on vacation, NetworthIQ gets some significant press exposure. Well, it happened again (the 3rd time in the last 12 months). Scott Burns, a syndicated financial columnist, included NetworthIQ in an article about Tricia, a personal finance blogger (and one of our users) chronicling her family’s climb out of debt. Congrats for the writeup Tricia, and thanks Scott!

I’m on vacation this week and from last Friday until last night I was out of town and completly unplugged. No laptop, no Internet. It was a refreshing break from the constant information processing that usually marks my days (not that I’m complaining, I enjoy it tremendously). This year we headed off to see some friends in northern Idaho, outside of Sandpoint. It’s a beautiful area, and I’d recommend visiting if you ever get the chance.