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And the winner of the Friendly Giant Tournament is …
Congratulations to Squeaky - the undisputed winner of the Friendly Giant IdeaWarz tournament with his wickedly named idea GPS location member supplied content/POI.
This self confessed chocoholic likes to think of himself as a Cookie Athlete. The epiphany for this idea came to him while cruising cross country with his TomTom Go GPS receiver, looking for interesting points of interest (POI) and chocolate bars.
The Idea:
If you have a GPS, the next hot thing is good content–member content. Reference providers supply history or relevance for a particular GPS location. It could include good places to eat, places to see, important people that have lived there, etc. As a user, you use the system to plan your trip. As you plan it, you see various member supplied points of interest. You can decide which ones to include based on the member’s profile or perhaps the interest category. You could download MP3 content, videos, etc in advance of your trip but when you get near the POI the content is made available. If you take this a step forward, you could have history trips, learning trips or adventure trips. This also allows users to begin to rate content. Using this system a user could find local favorites for both food and entertainment. Businesses would be happy to advertise on the site as well as communities wishing to increase tourist dollars.
When Squeaky isn’t enjoying a fine piece of chocolate, a perfect day for him is riding his mountain bike on a fall day and beating his friends butt up a huge hill. All the chocolate has got to help 
We would also like to congratulate our other tournament finalist jheaney. Jheaney fought a brilliant tournament with her idea U decide 4 me. We hope we see a lot more of this idea going forward in the community as it really has merit.
For winning an IdeaWarz Tournament, Squeaky will be able to buy himself a years worth of chocolate with the $1000 prize money, and do it in style wearing an authentically designed Jessye Cook t-shirt.
Congratulations again Squeaky on winning the Friendly Giant. It’s good to know there is another Cookie Athlete out there.
All the best to our up-and-coming contenders as you may soon see your name up here in lights beside Squeaky’s.
Until next time … May the best idea win!
May 4th, 2007 at 9:46 am
That is a pretty good idea. Congrats to Squeaky! If GPS devices could do that, I think everyone would buy them. What TomTom GO does he have? I know a few friends with the GO 910 and they love it. Its got a few bells and whistles like bluetooth, mp3s, and text-to-speech, but I wouldn’t mind seeing some of Squeaky’s ideas on the next models
Maybe sometime in the future!
May 4th, 2007 at 9:53 am
I don’t know what kind of TomTom Go squeaky has. I know he loves it though and it was the inspiration behind the idea.
Agreed - if GPSs started doing this kind of stuff, we would all have them.