Reply to: Next big thing on the Internet

[Shimano105]

SallyAnne

[andy]

What's going to be next big thing on the Internet that's going to make a few million/billionaires overnight?

We've had online auctions (eBay), search and pay-per-click advertising (Google), social networking (Linked-in, Facebook), music (i-tunes), video (YouTube), etc.

WHAT'S THE NEXT BIG THING?

(and how can I get in early and make a killing )

Too late , you should have bought a funky domain name
sex.com was recently sold for $10million

[scooterscot]

You are of course correct which is why I have spent a lot of time thinking about security.

For a start when logging on it creates a one-time only key and this is used to communicate user credentials for the current session only.

Another security element is why I am not using client side Javascript to update the local database. It would be too easy to write code to hijack the update of the online database.

There are other elements but aware security is important that is why I have spent considerable time in reducing the opportunities for people to hack the software.

The technology barrier is only one side of the coin. It's not doubting you can indeed create this service, rather what if some third party like the police of government (MI5) overpower you on a need to know basis. I can sooner see a device the size of a 10p coin hanging round your neck with 1tera byte storage capacity and WiFi connection.

[TheFaQQer]

Have a look in the halfbakery. It's full of half-baked ideas, some of which would be great if you can be the guy to get them to work...

[zathras]

I don't think I could trust a third party to hold such information, good idea but at present I use my USB stick and backup on a regular basis...

For this idea to work you need an online vault for information that's as secure as my usb stick in my pocket.

You are of course correct which is why I have spent a lot of time thinking about security.

For a start when logging on it creates a one-time only key and this is used to communicate user credentials for the current session only.

Another security element is why I am not using client side Javascript to update the local database. It would be too easy to write code to hijack the update of the online database.

There are other elements but aware security is important that is why I have spent considerable time in reducing the opportunities for people to hack the software.

[sli_gryn]

I'm writing it so the next big thing will be the NBT.

Seriously I am spending time on something but I think the next big thing will be integrating data a website and desktop applications.

So lets say I am analysing the quarterly sales figures. I can go to a website to see them, import them into Excel. Work with them, maybe change some budget figures and then when I visit the website the data will change.

When I go home I can go to my PC at home, and open up and see the same data.

What I mean essentially is that a major part of an application will be provided via Web Services. This means that coupled with One-click deployment, there is no such thing as an upgrade. It all happens seemlessly, all I do is confirm that I want the upgrade done.

Any application with a heavy data input can be implemented this way, even document storage.

Tale for example Payroll. I've supported them and every year their is the same activity that can become a royal pain in the rear-end. Between the March Payroll and the April one assuming they straddle the end of the financial year, NIPAYE tables need updating. If you support Sage for example this may mean travelling around all clients and invariably some twit has corrupted the database so that will need repairing. I did this every year for 4 years and it is a pain.

Web based software would avoid both these and in addition corruptions cannot be caused by the user pulling the power because in the web the user is never actively connected to the database.

try adobe apollo... can do this sort of stuff x-platform

[KentPhilip]

[QUOTE=King Cnvt]What's going to be next big thing on the Internet that's going to make a few million/billionaires overnight?

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Remember a few months ago you had web controlled robotic stag hunting in America.
Well I recon Iraqi insurgents are going to offer robotic pot shots at US troops in Iraq. Think of all those muslims in Saudi, the Phillipines, Bali, (and Bradford) who'd sign up for that!

[Diver]

How about remote-controllable high-definition street webcams, for couch potato stay-at-home etourists - Stick them at interesting locations, such as Oxford Street or Heathrow Airport and auction timeslices for people to be able to swivel and zoom them.

Big department stores like Harrods might be able to make some money out of them, and advertise their wares at the same time.

HMSS already done it.

You got to be a member though.

mind you, they pay you to watch. sorry! we pay them to pay you to watch us

Oh Brother! (correction, Big Brother)

[OwlHoot]

What's going to be next big thing on the Internet that's going to make a few million/billionaires overnight?

How about remote-controllable high-definition street webcams, for couch potato stay-at-home etourists - Stick them at interesting locations, such as Oxford Street or Heathrow Airport and auction timeslices for people to be able to swivel and zoom them.

Big department stores like Harrods might be able to make some money out of them, and advertise their wares at the same time.

[Diver]

With governmental big brother attitudes, how safe would it be?
even if encrypted.
I'll stick to my sticks thank you.

[timh]

P2P backup? As long the data's heavily encrypted that'd be very cool!

{edit}just googled and it seems to have been done! excellent!{/edit}

[alreadypacked]

What's going to be next big thing on the Internet that's going to make a few million/billionaires overnight?

We've had online auctions (eBay), search and pay-per-click advertising (Google), social networking (Linked-in, Facebook), music (i-tunes), video (YouTube), etc.

WHAT'S THE NEXT BIG THING?

(and how can I get in early and make a killing )

On-line backup for home computers, storage for files photos. Friend of mine, house done over, 3 computers gone. Lost everything!

[scooterscot]

I'm writing it so the next big thing will be the NBT.

Seriously I am spending time on something but I think the next big thing will be integrating data a website and desktop applications.

So lets say I am analysing the quarterly sales figures. I can go to a website to see them, import them into Excel. Work with them, maybe change some budget figures and then when I visit the website the data will change.

When I go home I can go to my PC at home, and open up and see the same data.

What I mean essentially is that a major part of an application will be provided via Web Services. This means that coupled with One-click deployment, there is no such thing as an upgrade. It all happens seemlessly, all I do is confirm that I want the upgrade done.

Any application with a heavy data input can be implemented this way, even document storage.

Tale for example Payroll. I've supported them and every year their is the same activity that can become a royal pain in the rear-end. Between the March Payroll and the April one assuming they straddle the end of the financial year, NIPAYE tables need updating. If you support Sage for example this may mean travelling around all clients and invariably some twit has corrupted the database so that will need repairing. I did this every year for 4 years and it is a pain.

Web based software would avoid both these and in addition corruptions cannot be caused by the user pulling the power because in the web the user is never actively connected to the database.

I don't think I could trust a third party to hold such information, good idea but at present I use my USB stick and backup on a regular basis...

For this idea to work you need an online vault for information that's as secure as my usb stick in my pocket.

[zathras]

Zathras: yeah, google gears or adobe air, or whatever apple and microsoft will do.

So I might actually be on to something

Anyway both those are the plumbing. It is what is being done with it that is of interest.

Anyway in my case I'll be fronting some of the tools direct into the OS (So I am investigating hooking into the Vista Search so you search your online database as well), Setup is via a Control Panel applet and you interact directly with the database via your MS Office Apps.

I may actually look at Google Gears to see if it can make anything easier though. Otherwise I will have to implement something myself.

Now if I could get Google Ads to look at a database - say you are looking at your Purchase ledger and see the cost of Stationary, and then the application pops up adverts for alternative suppliers. (say at the side of the application or along the top - those fecking popups that obscure what I'm looking at are really annoying)

[reformation]

Zopa