Ok, I've been brainstorming for hours and hours and finally written
down a bunch of ideas that have been rattling around my head for many,
many months. To the best of my knowledge none have yet been implemented
in any form by anyone.
I'm sending you this just to document (time-stamp) my ideas.
So please just save this email somewhere.
Please keep it confidential / don't let anyone read it / don't mention it.
You don't even need to read it. I just want you as a witness in case yet more
of the ideas I think I came up with ultimately end up in the world without
crediting me. And forgive the manic, paranoid, egocentric ranting. ;-)
But if you're interested, see below...
Thanks and good karma to you.
Regards,
Dan
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More of my Brilliant Ideas for Google (or Yahoo etc.) to Implement
(rough notes for myself only, not yet ready for outside evaluation)
1) "Google Lessons" aka " Google University ":
It's a wiki-like, user-submitted database of lessons, seminars &
textbook chapters.
It would allow YouTube video of lectures & lab experiments.
***Basically, it's the ultimate online university.***
It's a wiki with credibility.
Modified "Page Rank" could be employed to ensure credibility and
"Google Scholar" could be linked for advanced lessons.
The added twist is that users could create "profiles" to help them select
appropriate lessons on desired topics. Designated "experts" could have
"profile ID numbers" to assist in page-rank/searches.
(NOTE - I already sent this to multiple people at Google in the hopes of
piquing their interest in potentially hiring me.)
2) "MyPrefs" aka "GPP: Google Personal Preferences" -
This is an online drive space for not only your documents/files, but
also your preferences.
Including: GUI prefs, Application Serial Numbers, maybe ultimately
even passwords/key chain.
It's the true incarnation of the "network appliance".
This sets the stage for the next generation of computing where a user
need only remember one ID/password and he can work remotely anywhere.
Computers could be preloaded with virtually every application and when a
user logs-on she may have access to all of the applications she already owns.
This also enables a new business model the software creators would appreciate:
day-passes to sample and even use the application. It falls seamlessly into the
much-desired subscription business model.
3) "Marketing Evaluator" -
A software application that tracks your marketing budget ROI for not just search
advertising but across all marketing tactics. Vendor tags website with different
sub-domains or web-pages for different advertising tactics. Formula weights and
evaluates the ROI for different bids of search words and, more importantly, vs.
TV, Radio etc.
Then users are presented with list of what drove them (including placebo
control) then those that are selected are placed on a flash animation for the
user to distribute which was most influential (bars rise and fall dynamically).
4) "UniversalLogoCode" -
A bit like a Library of Congress ISBN number / UPC symbol for websites.
Google will maintain a website/database where anyone can create a ULC code
(maybe first 6 digits are date created, next 6 digits are time GMT, next 18
digits are the GoogleID number and then the next 10 digits are user-determined).
This ULC code can be branded on a website like a "good housekeeping seal of
approval" that links back to the Google ULC website for corroboration. The user
can update his account on Google's ULC website with descriptions of the
website and screencaps to ensure against "phishing".
Then this ULC code can be used to further establish credibility in search
page-rank etc.
Users could then actually, deliberately vote for the ULCs they trust for greater
accuracy.
5) "Google Editor/Advisor" -
Create a flow-chart, order of questions to be a guided evaluator for
virtually everything.
e.g. Website Design - "What is the subject? See these templates? Check these
competitors? Do you have pictures or logos? Of these sub-dividers which do you
have content for? Is it legible (consider color schemes)? Are all the options
clear and navigable?" etc.
Or Writing a Script - "What is the logline? Who are the main characters? What
does the protagonist do and how does he/she change?" etc.
This could be an extension/upgrade of "Google Lessons/University".
Eventually, users could create their own "advisors" for their own interests.
6) "Google Debate Trees" or "Once and For All"-
Using flow-charts/permutation trees, users can have wiki/blog style debates that
are visually navigable. Each branch can be infinitely extended and relinked to
other branches with appropriate foot-noting. For each split there can be
infinite responses appropriately ranked with page-rank or, better yet, with
ULCs/bundles. Enable a chance at "settling" the well-worn parts of debates by
crushing, "once and for all", demonstrably false arguments and letting the
debate continue where there isn't consensus.
These "debate trees" could be infinitely personalized to exclude/include
according to preferences.
Conceived by Dan Abrams. Hurray for me!
(I realize some of these elements could conceivably been concurrently created
independent of me. But I hope I did come up with them before they were out.)
