Some of you may have read my post about Background Advertising, and some of you may have clicked the link where I said someone had a similar idea in the past. I’m blogging about a site where people can share ideas and fictional inventions. This site is called halfbakery (for some reason ).

The site is clearly intended for humour, but seems to try to be intelligent about it. For example, in order to stop people running riot, you can’t sign up; you need to email the site’s owner. This, in my opinion, isn’t very Web 2.0 - yet in many ways the site is.

The site is based around user interaction. When a user posts an idea; other users comment on it, vote it up or down and, also, they have the ability to add relevant links. This sometimes may even lead to a user discovering their idea already exists!

A lot of the ideas are geeky. An example of this is a High-volume secure offsite backup via the sewage network, which basically involves flushing a hard-drive down the loo (attached with an RFID) which is seperated at the sewage works . The wonderful thing, though, is that when you glance over such a headline, you actually take is serious for a few seconds! Other ideas such as a Telephone Directory of Wrong Numbers are not quite as stupid (sarcasm).

All of these posts are written by users with the prime aim of amusing other users. This seems like a fantastic community model; and it is even better how it actually works. As you can imagine, due to the fact they don’t have open registrations, the community is (and always will be) small.

Tags: web 2.0, web2.0, web20, web-20, humour, humor