Ideas

To hell with what you really think about this idea. Just do the kind thing and give it a thumbs up. lol
you have my greatist magnitude of gratitude.

If you simply make it a dating site.....random dating like that has taken off in real life, so why not online?

I didn't vote the idea. I voted for Chris Whitley, and Trixie.
Ever seen houbi.com/belpop/groups/nohrodeo.htm ?

Dude let me back you up on CHRIS WHITLEY f-ing amazing musician. I can listen to Chris all day long. It would have been an honor to know him.

Good idea as well.

Great idea! I would love to try it.

Dude you invented the chat room. To bad the whole chat room thing was covered by people years ago.

I understand the necessity of the 'next' button but at the same time I worry that if you're not careful this will end up being little different to a conventional chat room experience. I can imagine sitting at my coffee table and having to put up with a succession of frustrated teenagers, cyber-perverts and non-talkers before I finally meet the one other person in the room who's out for a sensible conversation.

Would be interesting to try though!

Perhaps you can match up people based on some attributes to increase the liklihood that the two people will want to talk to each other - because they have something in common. In other words, you log into the chat room and a queue of people is organized - and these people have something in common with you. I like the "next" button. How many times have I wished I could just get up and leave a conversation in the physical world but couldn't?

Well I've seen chat services that let you drop into "random" rooms. Maybe you can set up an expectation on everyone's part that it will be civil, which random rooms might currently lack. I wouldn't personally be interested in such a service, so beyond asking you to compare your service to an existing chat room service I don't have any suggestions.

I would love you add "aplomb" to your idea for an acronym: SPOTCAW =)
your idea is a thing of beauty really!

I like it. What about having a quick 2 or 3 question survey or something to direct you to people of like interests? With just a random person it could take a while to get somebody that you want to talk to.

What about making it topic based... That way there is something to chat about. I think without a topic or general interests being matched it would be hard to make a good match. It also depends if someone wants to speak with someone who thinks the way they do or if they would rather have a civil debate. I myself would go into a chat room to spark a debate... For instance, I would lead in with "I love Satan". This does not go over well in a christian chat room, but the athiests cheered. But after I explained my point and said that Jesus would want me to love satan I turned the room around and confused the whole lot of them. Just a thought!