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For Everybody with access to the internet who want to know about or buy the products and services of the world is a worldy concept that would be fun and easy to use. Unlike Advertisement laced companies our product networks and encourages users to interact.
The Idea
My idea involves the simplest of organizational solutions for the world at large. It is social networking for the world. People, companies, brands, products, places, services all Web 2.0'd for our convenient use. It is a huge directory for bringing us all closer together. Every one of the things to go in the directory would have a square thumbnail that would be representative of the business, product, service or person and this would be able to fit onto a sort of white board background that brings all the individual user wants on it together. This enables the person to only use what they want.
Each business has the chance to open their own shop, each person can offer their own services and each product can be sold to the world all depending on locations. It brings the people of the web closer while going global at the same time. You can even have an economy on the site so you can distribute money between each avatar whether they are a human, company, a town or corporation.
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I thought of this idea when I was...
When I was cruising in my car into Melbourne and bombarded by all the billboards and skyscrapers and inspired to have an idea of my own.
Comments Posted
Your plan has something although I'm afraid the board will get too full.
Tommy
Yeah it needs organization. I want it to be coded so that the picture blocks people use the most stay the highest ranked on the board to get around that.
flickr istockphoto etc...
all Web 2.0'd for our convenient use?
Sounds like you're proposing a combination myspace/facebook/ebay/etsy/linked-in/all of web 2.0 in one place! If you think you can come up with an intuitive new site structure and homepage organisation that'll be a vast improvement on what's already out there then by all means give it a go. I'd recommend doing LOTS of testing of potential ideas before launching though - find out what would be convenient to everybody, instead of just what works best for you.
A web site for everyone in the world... lol... first folks need to practice a little more on being in the same place without killing each other.
My other comment is, is it really for the "whole" world, or just the nations with expendable income and extensive communications infrastructure? That question was a little rhetorical... I love it when people use words like "all" "every" "anyone"
But busting your chops aside, you are definitely going to have some hurdles. I would suggest getting the site going and see how it scales. And if it is really meant for "everyone", I would even test with a 28.8 K baud modem... Then test how your site responds to a million simultaneous hits. And then 10 million. If you build it right you will scale nicely and you really will be able to be a world portal.
Of course you might find yourself scrapping some of the eye candy to "meet timing"... ever wonder why the Google landing page looks the way it does?
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