The next cool thing
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The next cool thing
What do you think will be the next cool thing online? - something that hasn't been done before.
Some people who do that "Second Life" thing spend more time living in their cyberuniverse than the REAL one...THAT's scary... 
I think people are forgetting how to interact with REAL PEOPLE. I shudder to think of the social ineptitude which the next generation will have to deal with.
I think people are forgetting how to interact with REAL PEOPLE. I shudder to think of the social ineptitude which the next generation will have to deal with.
"Right away would be good. Right now would be better"
-- Nick Succorso
OK, so what's the speed of dark?- Larry the Cable Guy
No reason to not contemplate it. I - for one - am keen to explore the options. I'm getting rather tired of Bill Gates having a tad more cash than I doMatrixman wrote:I read your question to mean: what will be the next online thing to achieve massive popularity on the scale of YouTube? Beats the heck outta me. If I knew what it was, I'd be filthy rich.
I'm actually contemplating starting a company - without a product just yet - that will explore the possibilities and take them for a test drive. Any takers? Companies need shareholders after all.
Oh and I am being serious.Don't need capital - simply ideas and tenacity. I'm thinking that I need the minds of about 5 people.
Tech-head (two of them)
Marketing guru (one of them)
Research dude (or dudette) (two of them)
Company will be operated from NZ but key partners can be global. If you're up for the challenge then send me a pm to consider - with details of how you fit into one of the 5 minds I need
Tech-head (two of them)
Marketing guru (one of them)
Research dude (or dudette) (two of them)
Company will be operated from NZ but key partners can be global. If you're up for the challenge then send me a pm to consider - with details of how you fit into one of the 5 minds I need
We only think it's all been done because the next thing hasn't come out (or been released) yet .... it really looks like we've got everything, both good and bad, online.
I've seen people on one or two certain other forums relate to each other in really dysfunctional ways, and it's quite scary ... I mean, when you turn the computer off you turn these people off with it!!!!!
Another thing that "gets" me is on some forums, it seems to be a game to flame newbies even if their first post/question is sensible and researched. People with thousands of posts to their names will spam someone with flames just because they're new. To those spammers I'd simpy say, "If you've got nothing constructive to add, just don't bother - get a life instead".
We can get "forummed out". I recently did an exercise in which I identified all the forums I'm on, changed the passwords, set them to allow PM contact but not email (to prevent my email address being 'harvested' by 'spambots'), and add in/remove any other details as I saw fit. I identified some 35 forums, most of which I very rarely, if ever, visit now.
To say nothing of other so-called "social" sites such as MySpace, hi5, Bebo and so on....
For me, over the past few months, I've been very busy in real life that I simply haven't had so much time to spend online, except for sporadic forum visits and answering email. But maybe this is a good thing!
I've seen people on one or two certain other forums relate to each other in really dysfunctional ways, and it's quite scary ... I mean, when you turn the computer off you turn these people off with it!!!!!
Another thing that "gets" me is on some forums, it seems to be a game to flame newbies even if their first post/question is sensible and researched. People with thousands of posts to their names will spam someone with flames just because they're new. To those spammers I'd simpy say, "If you've got nothing constructive to add, just don't bother - get a life instead".
We can get "forummed out". I recently did an exercise in which I identified all the forums I'm on, changed the passwords, set them to allow PM contact but not email (to prevent my email address being 'harvested' by 'spambots'), and add in/remove any other details as I saw fit. I identified some 35 forums, most of which I very rarely, if ever, visit now.
To say nothing of other so-called "social" sites such as MySpace, hi5, Bebo and so on....
For me, over the past few months, I've been very busy in real life that I simply haven't had so much time to spend online, except for sporadic forum visits and answering email. But maybe this is a good thing!
If you don't know what eschatology is then don't worry; it's not the end of the world.
i am the muffin QUEEN.Seareach wrote:I'll be a key partner...but I can't do anything on your list...but I make damn nice instant coffee...oh I make muffins too!!!!
i can do research, Vain!!
perhaps Sea and I can form the Research and Muffin Developement Team!
you're more advanced than a cockroach,
have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies
i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
a straight edge for legends at
the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
~ dennis r wood ~
have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies
i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
a straight edge for legends at
the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
~ dennis r wood ~
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I minored in marketing when getting my degree in business management. I could head up the marketing department!
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I majored in BS so I could do PR for you.
Interactive gameshows will be next. I don't mean voting or registering I mean web-cams feeding direct to TV. One thing I've noticed on Direct TV is a skaters/grundge channel that has interactive comp polls, trivia and communication during reruns of STNG...it's ridiculous of course, but the concept is cool...
Interactive gameshows will be next. I don't mean voting or registering I mean web-cams feeding direct to TV. One thing I've noticed on Direct TV is a skaters/grundge channel that has interactive comp polls, trivia and communication during reruns of STNG...it's ridiculous of course, but the concept is cool...
fall far and well Pilots!
Hehe. I soooo wanted to refute that by posting a link to a site called, or dealing with, Baboonrockets (I bet Es could find one).Balon wrote:What'll be new?
One word.
Baboonrockets.
There has got to be some way to have sex online. I mean real, physical, body-to-body contact sex....hasn't there? Have sex with anyone in the world from the comfort of your own living room! How does that sound?!
Or maybe a website where you log in and watch someone else engage in fun, oudoors activities for hours on end.
It'd take you a long time to blow up or shoot all the sheep in this country, but one diseased banana...could kill 'em all.
I didn't even know sheep ate bananas.
I didn't even know sheep ate bananas.
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You...da...man!!
My god, do you hack in to the same search engine employed by James Bond!? If there is a Watchie for best Googler next year I'm voting for you (I think there's room by the window for one more
). 
It'd take you a long time to blow up or shoot all the sheep in this country, but one diseased banana...could kill 'em all.
I didn't even know sheep ate bananas.
I didn't even know sheep ate bananas.