That was my idea!

David from 37signals posted a blog entry about people who have succeeded with ideas you may have thought of a while ago.

He's right about it all of course - an idea by itself it worth nothing.  If you do nothing with it, then you have nobody to blame but yourself if someone else makes a whole lot of money from a similar idea.

Of course this doesn't necessarily stop the nagging feeling that it could have been you with all that income...

My big idea that I did nothing with?  I think it was around 1998 when I thought it would be useful to have a real estate website to which rental agencies could submit available properties complete with photos and searchable descriptions.  Seriously.  Oh well.