Great Ideas by Chad Spacey

Blogger Threatened to be Sued

2006-01-03T22:53:00.000-08:00

Today's Great Idea is that everyone in the United States link to Sozialgericht Bremen and keep his position high in google search just to piss off the Sozialgericht Bremen store. Here's a link to the story explaining it better.... Blogger Threatened to be Sued

Podcast Radios

2005-12-21T23:23:00.000-08:00

With my laptop by my side I can drive down almost any given residential street and find a wireless connection. Depending on the level of security I most often can logon to the internet and surf. This got me thinking… I use iTunes to subscribe and download Podcasts. Podcasts are kind of like radio programs but instead of receiving the music or talk shows from the radio waves you download them from the internet. These downloads are great because you can listen to them whenever you like, unlike radio where you listen as you go.

So the great idea is this, a car radio with built-in wireless. As you drive around the car radio would pick up wireless signals and download the Podcasts you have subscribed to.

This car radio would obviously need more than just wireless. So the solution would be all in the face plate.

This car radio face plate would also be a portable MP3 player and could plug into a computer through USB. Using your favorite PC / Mac media app you would load up the player. Also using your media app you would subscribe to Podcasts.

Podcasts are uploaded on to servers at different time according to the shows schedules. So if you were on the road or walking around the block and found a wireless connection you could start down a Podcast instead of always having to connect to the PC / Mac.

Another feature you may consider for a car radio portable MP3 player with wireless would be voice recognition and an email reader. While you are driving around the player could say, “You have connection” where after that you could download a Podcast or have it grab your email. Later you could have the voice read your email or listen to your Podcasts.

Outside Volume Control

2005-12-21T23:14:00.000-08:00

Noise canceling headphones are great. These headphones work best with outside noises like airplane engines and leaf blower type sounds. Some headphones have a volume devise attached to the cables so you could turn up and down the music.

I find ideas come from problems. Necessity in the mother of invention, I tell you. The problem is this, when you are riding in a car being anti-social listening to your music an interesting conversation always starts up. If you want to join in you have to pause your music and remove your headphones and jump in. Then it stops and you can listen to your music again. While listening you look around and see others talking. Sometimes it looks like someone has asked you a question or is talking about you and again you have to pause your music and remove the headphones.

My idea is this, an outside volume control so you could turn up or down the outside sounds. The noise canceling headphones use microphones to cancel the outside noise maybe they could also be used to turn up the outside noise in the event you want to listen to conversation without pausing the music.

The Video Podcast Agent

2005-12-15T12:05:00.000-08:00

The Video Podcast Agent

There is already a trend in the uploading and sharing home videos on to sites like DailyMotion.com, Vimeo.com, Google Video and YouTube.com. Podcasts are plentiful and Video Podcasts are on the new frontier of the ipTV trend but bandwidth can be expensive. I have a new idea to solve the expensive bandwidth problem and make money with Video Podcasts.

In the late 1990’s there were a few new websites that gave people free online email. Sites like Hotmail.com, Yahoo.com and Rocketmail.com let early web surfers get there email anywhere they could find an internet connection. This service was free by slipping ads in and around the email space.

Create a Free Video Podcast website (Agent) maybe call it “Free Video Podcast” aka FVP. You would login and upload your Video Podcast to FVP (Agent). FVP would do a lot of the hard work automatically. Work like finding advertisers and submission to iTunes. Download numbers and viewer ratings could be tracked in a similar fashion to Amazon.com. As a Video Podcast grows in popularity 30 second ads could be place in the front and ends of the shows. This FVP (Free Video Podcast) website could share the revenues with the Video Podcasters content creators.

DiggNation (digg.com) plants ads in the front of their show and DigitalLife (dl.tv) has ads sandwiched in like show on TV. The FVP website / company could also sell ads across many different Video Podcasts.

The website Free Video Podcast would act as an agent finding advertisers and placing ads in on the Video Podcasts. The agent and content creator would share profit accordingly.

Internet Network Company

2005-12-15T10:43:00.000-08:00

Since the networks (NBC, CBS, ABC and FOX) are slow to put content online to download I feel it is time that a new company is formed to create web only television shows. The company could start like Fox did in the 90's with a primetime line up each day consisting of 2 to 3 hours of shows to download. (Fox today has some of the best primetime shows with The Simpsons and 24) The shows would be available to download in the television style. For example a show will “air” or be ready for download at a given time and day then the viewers can download and watch the show at their convenience. The viewers could also subscribe to a show to automatically be downloaded every week. ITunes has created a place to find and download podcasts and vidcasts you can also subscribe so a very similar model exists. Most of these shows are website based, meaning the content comes from a website like CNet News, Slashdot Review and DiggNation. Other shows are stand alones and have websites like MySportsRadio.com and Photoshoptv.com.

I feel the podcast/vidcast space is ripe for a new company to form an internet podcast/vidcast network that solely creates news shows, sitcoms, reality shows and other content seen on television but at a higher quality from what is currently on the web now. The value of a company doing this is for cross advertising other shows and bulk ads run across many shows.

Maybe a car, cola, computer, soap, cereal, or other consumer product company will not advertise on a single podcast/vidcast show but maybe they will advertise across a group of shows delivered by a single company. Companies that may look and feel like the old broadcast companies but are really a company of the future.

The realities of podcasts/vidcasts are they will be less expensive than regular television shows. There are three components to podcasts/vidcasts, production, bandwidth and download count. The first two are the expense of making the podcasts/vidcasts and the last one is a rough count of viewers/subscribers. With broadcast/cable television there are more expenses with license airwaves, broadcast fees, they must fill the airwaves with 24 hour content and production costs.

A news show vidcast could be very different from their television/ cable counterparts. Let’s say you want to make a 24 hour news podcast/vidcast. Instead of recycling the news over and over like they do on Fox News or CNN, you can just make updates to news segments. It could be like Today’s News 1.0 and then Today’s News 2.0. The new version is only created when a significant amount of new information is collected and ready to present. Or add a new news story. The viewers to the news show could download only the news they want.

Sell it on Craigslist

2005-12-15T10:25:00.000-08:00

Make a pilot of a show in Video Podcast form and sell it of Craigslist. If you have an idea for a TV show you can make a pilot very inexpensively as a Video Podcast show. Then post it online for people to view. After you’ve make the Video Podcast go to Craigslist and sell ad space. Two things will result from this. One, is many people will down load the show and an audience will start to form. If you show is entertaining. The second result is you may find someone or some company that will buy some ad space and help with bandwidth and production costs.

If you do not know what a Video Podcast is please visit my other Blog Video Podcast Review and visit iTunes. ITunes is the best and easiest place to find and download Video Podcasts.

I can smell where you are…

2005-11-29T13:06:00.000-08:00

In the future there will be sensors that can smell who you are. Like finger prints and eye scans, each person gives off a smell signal. Although this smell signal can change in degrees the basic smell of a person remains. Right now only dogs have that ability to track by smell but soon small box devices with GPS and cell phones could be used to track people and there movements.

What if there were millions of smell detectors just like there are millions of cheap video cameras every. With video you can lose track of a person and usually people have to be watching all the cameras to follow someone. With smell trackers a computer detects the smell signal and informs authority. Also with video you have to be in front of the camera to be seen. With smell trackers the devise has a full circle range around it.

You can also hide these smell tracks, so people who are being tracked wouldn’t know where the devices are and could not avoid them. Places like the DMV could gather smell information on the actual person and put the smell signal to a real name. Give that smell signal and name a number and start tracking.

This form of tracking people is less intrusive than implanting a GPS locater under their skin. It’s a fun fun future!

video podcasts to sell a product

2005-11-24T01:10:00.000-08:00

Here’s my newest idea, what about QVC or Home Shopping Network in a video podcast. This podcast could have a sales person talk about a product and show the product just like on TV on a cable channel like Home Shopping Network.

How about product video podcasts? Most if not all website that sell products have pictures. What about using video podcasts to sell a product?

On iTunes the podcasts are listed by show and the show have text descriptions. You could sell products in 5 minutes segments under a show title and show product. Along with the show you could add phone numbers and website address to buy the items.

Imagine going to your favorite online store. You see something you like for sale. It has the normal description and the normal picture to go with it but there is something else. What about a link to a video podcast of the product with a person talking and selling the item. What about a short video podcast with someone showing you how to use the product? Maybe how to hook up the product and/or how the product could be useful to you.

I feel this has to be the natural progression of this medium. Maybe even a blend of how things are sold online today with podcasts and video podcasts. Remember when the web started people would use it to send text. Then they started selling products using text. Then came pictures and selling with pictures. Now we have a trend with podcasts and video podcasts and people are making shows and adding commercials. Another thing is the bigger size trend. Like more email storage and faster broadband connections. Movies for years have been selling themselves online using video. I feel just about all product could use some video as a selling tool.

I may just be crazy!

Hanford's new blog

2005-11-21T23:23:00.000-08:00

My good friend Hanford Lemoore has entered the world of blogs, please visit him at: http://blog.hanfordlemoore.com/

Please also see his websites:

Tikiroom.com this site has a great board called Tiki Central!

And

Monolux.com here you can play some great free downloadable games by Hanford himself!

Thanks!

Texas Three Slot Machine

2005-11-19T22:18:00.000-08:00

Texas Three Slot Machine

This great idea is based on slot machines. Fist if you been to a casino lately you will most defiantly have noticed the themed slot machines. These slots, like the star wars slot machine, are geared to attract new generations of gamblers. So my idea is somewhat in that vain.

My idea is the Texas Hold’em Slot machine. It will have a payout chart like most slots and you can play 1 to 4 quarters. There is also slot action with the screen rolling like the normal slot does and stopping to show results. But this slot has a little twist. The first twist is you play and pay in stages. You start with 2 free cards. When you see your cards you pay to see the flop. Then you pay to see the turn. Then you pay more to see the river. Lastly you win or lose according to the pay out chart. You also win at each stage.

Another version of this is to play three different hands at the same time. On this machine you can pay and play 1, 2 or 3 hands to start off. As the play moves on, you decide to keep paying each hand or stop paying. You may decide to play all three hands all the way to the river. The best winning hand pays money but because you were paying for two other hands the winnings are very little and must follow a chart to show payouts. You may decide to play only one of the three hands shown. In this case it is your hand from the beginning to the end against the other two shown hands. There are many different variations to this and different combinations of winning and losing. This is the basics of the idea. I may need to show examples for people to have a better idea of the way this all works.

Texas Hold’em is hot right now and a themed slot based on this could be very attractive to new players to slots machines.

I will post more on this idea…

How to Video Podcasts aka Vodcasts

2005-11-18T11:57:00.000-08:00

How to Video Podcasts aka Vodcasts

I watch the Photoshop TV Vodcast every week and they show tip and tutorials for Photoshop CS2. I was thinking of some great ideas for theses types of shows.

The first Vodcast would be for the FLY pentop Computer. This great product is a computer you can write with. You have to see it to believe it. The show would be a week and show tips and trick for the FLY. Also an artist would use the pen and show some creative ideas off with it. The show could be 15 to 30 minutes long.

The second Vodcast is an on location photography how to show. This Vodcast would take the viewer out in the field to take a single picture. From start to finish the shot is produced. An example of a show would be as follows. Find a good location for a picture. Set up the shot. What types of cameras are good for this shot. Adjust the camera for the different pictures results. Take the pictures and show the pictures. Along the process give tips on how to make the most professional photo.

The third Vodcast idea is a how to draw show. Each week the artist will show you how to draw. It could be a character, a thing or a place. This would be a very simple show with the focus being on one or two tools.

Search for Donuts and Robots

2005-11-17T00:11:00.000-08:00

If you search for Donuts or Robots on Google Base you will find a great free downloadable game!

http://base.google.com

Google Base Game

2005-11-17T00:07:00.000-08:00

This has got to be my craziest idea yet… OK using Google Base and Gmail create on online game. I know this is crazy… First use Google Base to store all the web content. Second use Gmail as the interactive part of the game. With Google Base store the pictures and written content. This is where you find clues. Follow the clues and email an address a Gmail address with the answer to the clue in the Subject Field. In Gmail set up a huge group of auto-responders to email back more information to player. Basically, that’s it.

Pollution Filtering Skyscrapers

2005-11-15T13:13:00.000-08:00

Specially built skyscrapers could be used to filter the air. Pollution from cars, trucks, big rigs, jet planes, boats and other vehicles that use fuel like gasoline and diesel can be filtered by the tall building around them. These skyscrapers along with providing office space and housing with the right construction can have special vents that let air through and in the process filter the pollution out. The larger cities where pollution is an extremely bad problem would benefit the most.

Extreme Photo Makeover

2005-11-12T00:09:00.000-08:00

Extreme Photo Makeover

Well here is my great idea today. It's called Extreme Photo Makeover. This is a TV show or vodcast (vodcast is like a podcast vod = video on demand) in a half or full hour. Each week the crew will visit someone and give them an Extreme Photo Makeover. A photo from the person is used usually something really old, torn up, too small and/or faded colors. Then we make the photo over using Photoshop, some custom art and other photos from the web and the person’s collection. The show not only makes over the photo but is a step by step walk through on how cretin effects were done and different creative ideas were used to improve the home photos. There can also be a few tips on how to take better photos to start with. In the end with photo retouched, added art and other effects the photo is printed poster size and framed for the wall.

Reality tech show style with a tips and tutorial feel. The end result someone gets a great photo makeover and the viewer learns some creative tricks.

Great Ideas by Chad Spacey

The Dealer - Second Gig

2005-11-09T23:34:00.001-08:00

The second gig: Deliver the message.

I have a message for a couple of bosses trying to muscle in on my territory. Each gang will be given a crime boss. Tell the boss in your own special way how displeased I am with their current activity. Depending on how well the boss get the message one gang will win the gig.

The losing gang will meet with me, the crime boss, where one of you will enjoy a fresh lead salad.

The Dealer - First Gig

2005-11-09T23:34:00.000-08:00

The first gig: Save the hoe.

Each gang is sent up to an apartment where they will find a cracked up hoe has overdosed. They need to take the hoe to the hospital. Get the hoe fixed up and put back on their corner to work. The gang's hoe who brings in the most money before midnight wins the gig.

The losing gang will meet with me, the crime boss, where one of you will be taken to the pier to have a nice long conversation with the fishes.

The Dealer

2005-11-09T23:33:00.000-08:00

The Dealer – Reality Show

20 contestants compete to become The Dealer.

The contestant who becomes The Dealer will receive a year's supply of their choice three different narcotics, four blocks of dealing territory, a duplex, five hoes and a pimped out stretched Hummer. All totaling, $500,000! The Dealer will also become part of my crime syndicate.

The 20 contestants will be divided up into 2 gangs. Each gang must come up with a name and color. Each gang must assign a leader for each gig.

New dating idea for the web

2005-11-03T18:21:00.000-08:00

I was listening to a tech podcast and reading craigslist when I came up with my latest idea. Why not podcast and/or videocast people looking for a date. The podcast/videocast is much like a picture included in the craigslist post. The podcast/videocast can be anything the ad poster wants to include about themselves.

I would then create blog and include the podcasts and videocasts. Post this on Apple's iTunes in the podcast section and off we go. The show would update depending on the frequency of the applacants wanting to create a podcast/videocast.

Another nice feture is that later, when a person who has made a podcast or videocast, they can then link in their craigslist post to the podcast/videocast of themselves just like including a picture of them selves.

I was thinking of giving away to the first 25 people a free podcast/videocast and then after that and the blog is up and running charge people for this service.