David Li's Random Ideas #2

What's Wrong?

The iPhone OS platform is fast becoming one of the most dominant platforms in the world with the popularity of the iPhone, iPod Touch and now the iPad! However one major flaw that many people have pointed out in the past is that although it supports a wide variety of the most popular web standards such as Javascript and PHP, it does not have the ability to run Flash.

So How Do You Fix It?

So Random Idea #2 is a service that moves the processing of webpages on an iPhone OS device from itself to a server running somewhere else in the world, very much like the Onlive service for video games. This allows the iPhone to run Flash via this remote server and other currently unsupported formats such as Microsoft Silverlight.

How Would You Do It?

You can leverage a cloud computing service to get a server and then create a webpage or app that sends the devices state to the server and relays the rendered page back.

Any Problems?

A major problem would be that 3G speeds would probably not be fast enough for the service and so a wifi connection would probably be needed. There is also the problem that the device itself may not be able to operate fast enough to make the system smooth.

Money.

Monetisation would be very easy on a service like this, either with standard ads or even a premium service with faster speeds.

David Li's Random Ideas #1

What's the Problem?

A problem in recent times, especially with the meteoric rise of Twitter, has been the danger of malicious links hidden in shortened URLs generated using sites such as tinyurl.com and bit.ly.

What's the Solution?

Therefore Random Idea #1 is a link checking service where a user afraid of clicking on a potentially maloicious link can simply type it in and check to see if it is safe or not, based on safety ratings from sites such as mywot.com, ensuring peace of mind when clicking on that 'OMG!!11!, Soooo Funny!!1!' link.

How?

It could be coded in basic Javascript & PHP and would probably utilize said URL shortener sites' APIs or another method by which the actual URL could be obtained.

Where is the Money?

Monetisation would be difficult but could be achieved using ads or maybe even a premium
service.

What Next?

There is great potential in this idea for spinoff browser plugins such as a Firefox add-on that shows users whether links are safe or unsafe.

Hello World!

Hello World!

My name is David Li and I'm one of those people whose just constantly having random ideas for that new website, app etc, ideas that probably won't ever get round to actually doing!

As such I've created this blog to share these ideas with the world, in the hope that if I don't use it, someone else will and develop it into something good.

If you happen to like one of the ideas posted on this blog and wish to develop it further, you are completely free to do so. All I request is that you drop me an email telling me so and any credit or even profits on the finished product would be greatly appreciated!

I can be contacted at dliks88@googlemail.com, no spam please.

Thanks for visiting my blog, just another one of David Li's random ideas!