[406] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Commercial services I'd like to see
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel P Dern)
Fri Mar 22 10:01:15 1991
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 91 09:45:38 -0500
From: ddern@world.std.com (Daniel P Dern)
To: com-priv@uu.psi.com
Cc: ddern@world.std.com
Here's one I'd love to see, which I think can also be considered
a good test application, involving multi-media, distributed
info, real-time information, e-mail databases, and more,
namely,
Where are the good Chinese restaurants in town X,
and which ones serve dim sum.
I'm sure most will agree this is important information. A
simple text database could do it -- but a hierarchical,
key-word-searchable database would help, not only for locations
but also for food-type keywords, cart/checklist style,
times, parking/transit. With multimedia, we could also add
pictures, bit-mapped images of the menus, phonetic pronounciations,
and perhaps recipes and other historical info. Then add a
meeting-ware application so we can organize outings, a review
database ... set it to run under X windows, perhaps add in
real menus in image form, add a pre-order window that can take
mouse or pen check-off and fax it in ahead (maybe even
request delivery, too).
It goes without saying that this is a menu-driven application,
which is why I'll save somebody else the trouble of so saying :-)
This does lead the the question, when discussing applications:
Some people are trying to identify platforms (e.g., distributed
hypertext), others specific info-pools and uses. I know, that's
not a question. Do we have a list of platforms and a mapping to
representative uses, and what related network services we need
to support them? (OK, there's a question.)
Daniel Dern
ddern@world.std.com
