Here at 383 we’ve been working on a new project and we’re really excited to finally be able to bring you a few of the details. The project is called “Ideas Buffet” and was first inspired by the apparent lack of web sites providing an easily accessible platform for discussing ideas. Branding Ideas Buffet as “a collaborative thought engine” we hope to provide a new tool for community brain storming that’s easy to use and provides groups and individuals with a simple way to collaborate.

We’ve taken our inspiration from a variety of popular web applications including message boards, Twitter, Google Analytics and web polls. We believe the result is a very elegant application that will serve as a useful tool.

Its almost ready, and we expect it to be available to the public within a couple of weeks. But before we can do that we need to make sure everything’s in working order. There’s an awful lot going on behind the scenes in this app and it all needs fine tuning. The only way we can do this is by asking a few of our friends to join us for beta testing.

We’re looking for a variety of people; everyone from creatives to paper-pushers and web gurus to complete novices. You’ll be given a sneak peak at the application before it goes live, have a chance to give your feed back and gain an insight in to how real websites are developed. You can have as little or as much input as you have time for.

So if you’re interested just drop a comment on to this post or you can send us an email from the contact form at the bottom of the page. We’ll be in touch with you just before we’re ready for testing to find a little more about you and your experience, and to see how involved you’d like to be.