I just joined that CFGames list over at eGroups: http://www.egroups.com/group/cfgames I just blurted out some ideas I've been having from distributed games via CF... and I figure it'd be best to post my other, non-games, distributed ideas here: 1) Aggrigated stats. We could band together to share stats information with each other so we'll all know on a broader scale what browsers and OSes are being run. You could set it up in such a way that you couldn't tell which stats belonged to which site. One big WDDX packet that gets added to/deleted from (old info) every night. ...or a central server, but that's not so anonymous. 2) People to block. This would best be done with a central server. Of course people would be putting in people they don't like... so you specify which people you trust to tell you who to block, and you can recieve a WDDX packet every night with add/deletes. (or just the whole thing). I'd be willing to host this (with and Access DB) until it gets too big or popular. 3) This one I know will probably never take off... but I remember a service called adult check that adults would pay a fee to have an adult check account and that verified their age with adult content sites. If someone signed up for an account off your link, you got a commission. Well, here's a twist on that: someone signs up to be a member of the ABC network of sites. They pay a monthly fee. This allows them to get into the members only area of these sites. Sites could be paid by the percentage logins they've (or pages viewed) were your site. So if 50% of the logins Joe Shmo made last month was your site, you get 50% of his monthly fee for that month. You could pay sites only when they reach a minimum, and make money on the float. OR, if it was more of a community effort, everyone could get paid automatically with PayPal, even use PayPal for the CC charging. I am very interested in helping to manage and develop this project. 4) Another idea I've been tossing around is a CF banner exchange that can handle text ads (and media other than images) *without* javasript for those wanting to do banner trading with WAP, email, or sites that pander to WebTV and the like. Problem is... this is very proned to tampering. Everyone would have to be on the honor system. 5) Here's a not so serious one. A quotes database that you can query and update. You can get quotes posted by certain people, by certain authors, places in specific categories. How many times did you want a rotating random quote on your site but didn't want to maintain a DB. You could query 100 a day, cache it, rotate them, query the next 100 the next day. I couldn't host this cause this would be best done with a DB better than Access and that's the best I can do right now. --- defective david http://defective.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
