Pennies for your thoughts

Ideas are suddenly big business. The Internet allows people to share their
brainwaves in an instant—and check on their originality using search
engines like Google. But not everyone wants to be bothered with checking and
commercialising their ideas: some just want to cash in quickly on the light
bulbs that appear above their heads, and leave the legwork and the—let’s
face it—remote possibility of megabucks to others. Stepping into the fray
comes www.ideadollar.com run by British-Canadian entrepreneur Mark Turrell, who
used to sell software that computerised “suggestion box” schemes. His site joins
more corporate-oriented Internet ideas machines…