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Develop a golf game to be played across the web.
Represented by an animated golfer, users would strike the
ball from the tee-off page and follow its trajectory across a
landscape of consecutive pages. The means of navigation
around the web could either be purely random, via Google
or Yahoo, or predetermined by sponsorship deals with
235companies looking to promote their sites by placing holes
on their homepages.
Dan Friedman
20 June 2001
Develop voice-activated software that automatically
enters spoken words into search engines and presents Editor’s note:
the best URL from the search results on screen. The This idea could work
software could be employed in a brainstorming meeting very well. Tests in
to continually interpret the conversation and illustratewhich spoken words
ideas under discussion on a screen. It could also be and dialogue were
swiftly typed into
236used to novelty effect in a bar or restaurant, offering a Google’s ‘Get Lucky’
feature genuinely
yielded interesting
and enlightening
visual interpretation of conversations held privately in results.
booths for other drinkers and diners to watch.
Mary Slim
21 June 2001