Re-enactments/Re-countings of things you remember happening (whether or not they actually happened). In effect, it would be the solidification of a possible life experience through the intentional recreation of supposed memories of said events.
Possible tag lines: “An Alternative to History” or “How (I Think) Things Were”.
Sitting through a web conference hyping Web 2.0 and web communities, I realize (yet again) how much I am not that demographic. I have rarely ever chatted, posted to newsgroups, hung out on blogs, etc. So, with the proliferation of MySpace, Facebook and Friendster, why isn’t there a Shutitster which would be a (parody) social network for people who don’t want to be in social network. Similar to some of the pages in those other social networks, the pages/profiles would be a wasteland of empty, default information, outdated items, etc.
The big pitch of the site would of course be the tally of how many millions of people felt compelled by the hype to visit, signed on, created as little of a profile as was required, looked around to decide it wasn’t worth their time, and never returned.
It could have “don’t bug me” buttons, forums/blogs with topics like “coming soon” and “welcome to your blog”.
There are a lot of sites that have tackled the “to do” list niche. Not sure if any of them is going into territories such as:
Taking these factors into consideration could allow for Gantt chart style output that helps see when to do items can actually be done.
You’re at work and you’re trying to locate someone. They’re not at their desk and you’ve asked the cubicle next to them to no avail. What do you do?I bet if you did some traffic analysis (fancy term for snooping on people by pointing cameras around the office and hitting record) you could probably identify each person’s 1 or 2 most common routes through the office. That might be the path to and from the bathroom or maybe to the designated smoke area. It could also be the path to the elevator as they sneak off to starbucks every ten minutes to get their fix. Regardless of the why, you might be able to say with some degree of certainty, that if they are not at their desk, the next best place to find them is somewhere along that pathway.Now, if you actually went so far as to paint everyone’s pathways on the floor of the office, in addition to it looking funny, would it lead to a change in people’s behaviors? Would people change that route because they don’t want to feel predictable? Would they take a different route if they didn’t want to be found?
Okay, this one is destined for abuse. But why doesn’t an online store have a shopping spree – you get five minutes to click anything you want at tremendous discounts.. People would practice all sorts of ways to browse a site faster in order to get past slow download times. Or perhaps the site would be hyping its super-fast site/design. Of course, bots and other types of automated programs would be an issue, but if the sites were trying to get rid of the stuff anyways… do stores really care when people are throwing items around in the aisles at box stores on those mass-savings days? As long as things sell, no?