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20 Tech Ideas VCs Want to Fund
An anonymous reader writes "CNNMoney reports on the top 20 technology ideas that our beloved VCs want to throw money at. Are these the brilliant ideas that will change the world (and make you rich in the process)?" From the article: "Delivery of new types of Web search to mobile phones. Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo are all taking a swipe at this, but Rimer believes they're betting on a losing strategy by simply shrinking their existing desktop features into a handheld package. He says he's willing to invest in new search applications that, for example, depend as much on voice recognition as on text input and would offer up everything from shopping and news headlines to driving directions and restaurant reviews with a few voice commands and keystrokes ... What he'll invest: $2 million for a working demo application."
It's kinda like the Internets. It's a series of tubes. The VC's could throw their money down my virtual toilet and when they are done they can wipe their asses with my vaporware paper. From VC to VT to VP = Profit!
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Who says you need internet access on your phone for this? Those are the types of assumptions that hinder innovation. Couldn't you do some kind of query/response to a server somewhere?
Yeah!
What we could do is set up this server, and design some sort of transmission protocol to handle the query/response that you mentioned.
Of course, one server would (understandably) be limited in terms of what it could offer, and how many queries it could handle at once. What we'd really need to do is set up many of these servers - each could help share the load, and each could have different content on them.
Of course, with millions of cellphone users, we'd need many, many servers to handle the load. And with the amount of information available today, no one server could provide any sizable fraction of the content. Well, let's set up thousands of servers, then.
Now, with all these servers, it sure would be nice to let them talk to each other as well - this way they can keep tabs on what everyone else is offering. Also, it's getting pretty cumbersome to try and find one server out of thousands - we'll need some sort of naming system, and likely hierarchical, to sort it all out.
Hmm.. now if only we could tie this all up together in some sort of futuristic Interconnecting network, you might be onto something!
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