Things that excite me

Here are a few things that excite me, most of them are on the hori­zon and not here yet.

MyMint.com — It’s promised to be a new Web 2.0 finan­cial web­site. I’ve only exchanged one brief email with one of the devel­op­ers but it was still enough to make me excited and eager to see what they come out with.

Spore — This game looks entirely too cool. I’m stoked and very very eager to get my hands on it. Will Wright is bril­liant and his ded­i­ca­tion has cre­ated a series of games which have had a last­ing effect on the entirety of the gam­ing industry.

The Gorb — The idea of online rep­u­ta­tion is a pow­er­ful thing. It dri­ves the Ebay mar­ket but it has hardly reached past that site and the Inter­net is a much big­ger place. We need to find a ser­vice which peo­ple can latch onto and it will bring into the web as a whole. Where most ser­vices focus on reg­is­tra­tion, The Gorb instead embraces anonymity to allow peo­ple to be com­pletely hon­est. Obvi­ously it leaves the net­work open to griefers and trolls but their ser­vice looks the most promis­ing of the rep­u­ta­tion sys­tems out there.

Apollo — It’s like Java, but bet­ter. We’ll see if it lives up to the hype but it’s open­ing the door for devel­op­ment. One of the biggest com­plaints about Java is its hor­rid graph­ics, Apollo is natively HTML, Flash etc.

Slacker — They look to be a big­ger, bet­ter, more awe­some ver­sion of Pan­dora or Last.FM. They made a big big splash a week ago and I’m very eager to see if they ful­fill their big expec­ta­tions and aspi­ra­tions. They want to be more than Pan­dora or Last.fm, but that’s where they are starting.

We’ll see how these pan out, but they’re a hand­ful of excit­ing possibilities.

What leaves you excited right now?