I just love it when I see entrepreneurs use some by-product of what they have to create something new and innovative. For instance take this entrepreneur: Philip Tellis. He’s thought of a great use for the 404 page. For those of you who don’t know, a 404 page is the page you receive when you try to hit a page on the server that doesn’t exist. Typically it’s just a standard page that says something like ‘Sorry, your page can’t be found’.
Philip has a great idea of using the 404 page for something great, such as showing pictures of missing kids. I think it’s such an innovative and great use of something so simple that we typically just don’t really give much thought to. I hope an open source project such as the Apache Foundation (or MS) would be willing to implement it in their next release.
Blog posting here: http://tech.bluesmoon.info/2010/02/missing-kids-on-your-404-page.html
