I'd like for you guys to help me out here and come up with ideas for web applications. This just means websites that you would use, on a regular basis. Also, please state whether or not you'd pay money to use them.

I'll start:

I'd like a photo gallery web site that doesn't suck in terms of speed/design but isn't proprietary. Flickr is a good example, but it is proprietary. I'm thinking more along the lines of something you could install on any web site. I would pay money for this application (one-time but not monthly)

I'd like a web-mail system that doesn't suck, similar to Gmail, but again, not proprietary. I would pay money for this as well.

I would pay a small (~$3-$5) monthly fee to integrate my cell phone and/or outlook to a "where the fuck is Chris?" webpage.

I'm assuming your posting this in regards to the rush of fancy soap and AJAX stuff coming out of the walls right now. It's really impressive. I'm already addicted to AJAX, and it's funny because it's nothing new, just overlooked.


This topic's a bit odd for me, because i think me and bert are pretty much in the same field to some extent. I'm currently developing a graphical representation for server loads and transfer times over Internet2. Yet what I really want is an AJAX style function that allows me to remote administer all the servers, see the traffic, and have a live visual in front of me. Currently you have to load up some software on a machine, and login a bunch of other machines. I'd love a central website I can login to, thats already on a server that has it's connections to the other servers. Then all i have to do is login from anywhere to this site and administer, analyze, and see it all in 1 happy little website.


I saw a project last week where a guy made an AJAX site that allowed you to login to all types of IM clients. You could go there, and login to all your screen names on 1 website, with nearly all the functionality of the programs. Considering I use 5 different IM clients at the same time, I really would like to bring them all together. While the software you can download lets you use multiple clients, it doesn't let you really have the same control as running all the stand alones seperate.


I'd be really impressed with a site that worked more like a remote desktop the most though. VNC is just annoying as hell to me compared to opening a web ap and controling stuff.


Last, I think it would be nice to have a website that worked like myspace, or facebook, but wasn't full of crap and bloated in such a queer college sociology project. Just a meet and greet place where I could login and meet anyone, see anyones profile, and communicate, maybe chat with new people, not somethign where i have to poke for a week to get 3 words back. I like IRC and ICQ for this, you can go in there meet someone a few times, or do random chats and meet people who are there and online for a while. theres soo many people sitting on myspace for hours a day, whom would love a chatroom that's more IRC style.


There's my top choices =P

i'd like something where i could type in how much time i have for lunch and my location and it would tell me which fast food restaurants will give me the best deal.

including any running discounts or specials.

I would pay a small (~$3-$5) monthly fee to integrate my cell phone and/or outlook to a "where the fuck is Chris?" webpage.

hans -

I don't know if you noticed but Bertrandom is one of the earliest adopters of AJAX, before it was even called AJAX. The input bar at the top uses it to show you topics that have been written already. I like the IRC idea, I'll look into that a little more.

einhander -

That's a great idea, there are a couple websites that sort of do this but in a different way, they tell you where to eat based on people that eat at the places you eat at. The problem is that they don't usually have accurate information, they don't have hours of operation, etc.

As far as Chris's suggestion goes, the network provider (Verizon, Cingular, etc.) should be keeping track of what cell tower you are accessing even when idle. The only problems with that are 1) its probably not on any central server and 2) its not something you could just screen scrape. You would have to actually go into negotiations with each individual provider to get access to it.

here are my 2 big problems with most websites... they don't display on cell phones very well. I have a treo600 which is great and all cause it can handle websites better than the standard WAP phones, but loading a site like facebook, or myspace.. absolute hell. say i want to search new egg, not a chance in hell... All this CSS style shit loads like ass on my phone. i have to load the page, then change the view format to show wide(normal computer view) then reload the page again and hope to god it can handle it.

what they need is like some sort of way to make it so i can load the same page on my phone and on my PC, but maybe the WAP format is a little less cluttered and such. i haven't tested bertrandom yet, i might have to in the coming days as classes start up.


I have another idea, but not so much one you'd probably want to tackle. but pr0n is what drives the internet so it's a great thing to invent for. some sort of decent pr0n web portal. I'm sure you all have one of those sites bookmarked where it gives you the daily free videos or something. i had a guy discuss building a macro to download his daily stuff, but i find this irrevelant. out of the say 50links, maybe only 3 to 7 really appeal to someones tastes and such. soo what they need is a more effect way to in a sense use a "spider" to crawl a list of links, find the videos and their links, say make a search that does a "if href value = .wmv, .avi, .mpg at end grab src for next /< img tags src"......

not really that hard to do i suppose. like how bert random used to have that google image thing to pick a picture for your story. but this way you could get all the thumbnails from the links. thus instead of having the 50links to click to get a page only to decide ifthe thumbnails look good, you get all the 50 thumbnails for the pages and a direct link to the file.

this could make some serious traffic, but also could piss off a lot of porn sites.... in the end, it's a system worth developing, just maybe a bit sketchy where you could implement it for it's best value.

I don't want very good resolution as to my location... choosing from a list of my pre-defined locations (home, rehearsal, playing a gig at: ___, school, work, driving around, etc.) is what I'm looking for. The application would first take all my outlook data to the website, and with my phone I could manually-override my location, and update my location when I felt like it... that way I don't get people trying to call my when I'm in class or something, then wondering why I didn't call them back for 3 hours. It would also be nice if (at least the outlook data) was browsable for other people so they could figure out when I might be available.

Regarding the Outlook appointments, I don't want their data showing up, just something like "work" or "home" or some other tag that I might assign to each entry.

I want an "ignore user" feature for Bertrandom so I can "opt-out" of the spam that mr pc man posts.

yeah!!! i 2nd RCL's idea!! Hell, i friggin write the code myself.. something like.... remove FROM USERS where NAME pc man... oh wait, that just gets rid of him..

Obviously you know your job but you can still fuck off hans! ;-)

I never thought I'd say this, but chris has a good idea. please. do something about that uncle fucker, bert. he's killing your website.

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ENOUGH! I have been reading through some of this nonsense for about a week or so and quite frankly Mr. PC Man is doing a good enough job of wiping the floor with all of you "Bozos" who wish to attempt to appose him. Remember those "readers" that Mr PC Man was telling you about. Well I'm yet but one of them. And now I refuse to remain silent. Whether you wish to believe this or not the ones of you who are choosing to appose him are nothing but a bunch of "wethers" as far as I am concerned. Now, whether you wish to do this or not my advice to you would be to either leave him alone or fuck off. Your choice. Aurevoir "assmonkeys". And by the way I'll be back too just like the terminator and no, I am not Mr. PC Man using a different user name. Bert, the actual owner of this site of whom I have respect for can tell you that much. :->

Lisa, I'm sure when you get to this, you'll be explaining to hans that you are not mellzy. Good luck though, because I think he is so determined in his, "assmonkeying" ways, that he may actually believe that I am you, mellzy, ibazichris, mr. pc man, double d when he is on mr. pc mans side of the fence, and maybe even mj, as well as possibly even tbonicus, all rolled up in one. heh, I got an idea. Maybe if all of us get together, we may be able to convince him that I am bert, then maybe he will go away, and then, all of my "split" personalities, can rest in peace, on this site. L O fucking L
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Well, I definately am not mellzy, but I would like to shake that persons hand. It is going to be hard for rcl, double d, hans, all of those morons to believe that there are actually more intelligent people out there, that they are probably outnumbered. I am only sorry that I tried backing down for a while, but oh how it did make their days for just a short while, huh? It really must make these people feel sooooo much better and bigger and smarter to put us down, and is definately makes them feel smarter, but how many brains does it take to come up with some of the things they do? Not too many in my opinion. Sure doesn't take a whole lot to be able to talk about poop and some of the other really earthshattering topics they post. Any way mellzy, thanks for coming forward and for taking a stand, it sure was good to hear from you.

I'd rather have Liza than her twin. Her twin sucks butt.

Sorry wallabysnot, there is only one of me, I was an only child!

lol

appose... like adipose?

Is this the last attempt at playing stupid before you leave for two months? What do you care? adipose is a tissue of fat, appose is keeping someone away, of juxtaposing them, trying to get rid of them by any means neccessary, etc. ;-)

Look who is trying to correct someon's spelling. The one with the first grade education!!! But what ever, it makes him feel smarter.

Actually, I'm not really sure what RCL meant by his last comment on this node liza? ;-)