My Super Amazing Ideas

Suddenly I See by KT Tunstall
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So occasionally I’ll come up with these ideas that I wish were implemented in real life. The only problem is that I’m too lazy to do it. So here we go, free ideas:

Cell phones should have away messages. Push a button, record a 10 second message (“I’m at the gym”), and that will be the default voicemail until you turn it off or change it again. I figured this was a pretty obvious idea, but after running it by a few people, I guess it isn’t as obvious as I had thought.

#2
This is an idea that I started thinking about more and more as debate over Net Neutrality heated up. It is a little out there, but stay with me. I would like to see someone build a browser network that would sit on top of the existing internet. That is to say, A browser that in addition to viewing normal webpages, could also view pages located on someone’s computer (another user of this browser). “Well,” you say, “that’s just stupid – you’re just adding a worthless layer to the internet! That is exactly what the internet is.” The thing that makes this idea unique is that this browser uses bittorrent’s protocol to serve up files and information. So instead of a website having limited bandwidth, a site’s bandwidth is only limited by it’s popularity. Of course, it would still need a server (or just a computer) somewhere to serve up the original files. But as more people view that site, they can take the burden off the original machine. So I suppose this is really more of a P2P app that serves webpages, instead of a browser. Although I want to keep the idea of a browser, because it should not feel any different than using a browser. If a standard website is called (from the normal internet) this should still be able to fetch it.
(I concede that this is not perfect, and there would be some problems with server-side scripts and/or databases. I have a few ideas about how to fix that, but I’ll leave it to a smarter person than I to solve)

I don’t think either of these ideas are original, and I’m sure someone out there has thought them before, but they are currently not implemented, and extremely feasible. Take these ideas and run. I don’t want credit, I just want to use them.