I think the more this concept (open startup ideas) gets fleshed out, the more appealing it has become. This is a huge improvement over the original spreadsheet, but I could see even more value being created with a better interface yet. Organize by subject, add search, etc.
It feels like people are becoming far less guarded of their brilliant ideas than in times past. I wonder what could come out of a vibrant and open "idea discussion" community.
nice, can you please make the title of each link show the summary, or arrange it in one column that expands 1 idea only regarding whatever is clicked, within that column. The idea can then be easily contracted again, or does so automatically when another is clicked.
I've used Accordion (http://docs.jquery.com/UI/Accordion) at first. As I understand you are describing similar behaviour. It was not very convinient when height of idea description >~= height of the screen so I switched to current implementation.
Problem of very short descriptions could be solved by tooltips as sgallant proposed.
On second thought, I would left justify the columns (have just 1 or two columns) and then create a docked div for the details to appear when an idea is selected.
It feels like people are becoming far less guarded of their brilliant ideas than in times past. I wonder what could come out of a vibrant and open "idea discussion" community.