The best ideas are the simplest ones.
How often do you forget where your keys are?
For all of us out there that do it quite often, a new service offers a solution: a company you can trust to keep hold of a spare set of keys for your house, car, office or whatever and they'lll deliver them to you, within an hour, 24/7 - http://www.sparekeys.com/.
I saw this idea in a Time Out booklet, they said "Let's face it, in our great metropolis, you can't always trust your neighbour, and you certainly can't leave anything under the mat!".
I think this is sad but true. We're lucky that we know our neighbours and can leave a spare set with them but for many other people they simply can't.
I think there's a bigger point here about people's lack of involvement with their local community. Civic interest seems to be at an all time low and our society seems to be fragmenting more and more, especially in the cities.
I think this disconnection with real world communities has fuelled online social communities that fill that connection gap. New social networking websites like Bebo, Friendster and MySpace.
The figures speak for themselves:
Bebo now has 21.4 million registered users worldwide and MySpace a massive 57 million registered users.
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