Overheard

“Oh boy! Another great opportunity for personal growth!”

“I’m not bitter about what happened to me as a child, and my mother was instrumental in keeping me from being so. ... She taught me to be grateful for my life regardless of what that entailed, and that’s directly related to the image of Christ on the cross and the example of sacrifice that he gave us. What she taught me is that the deliverance God offers you from pain is not no pain—it’s that the pain is actually a gift. What’s the option? God doesn’t really give you another choice.”

After over a decade of user testing, it is clear that the way we search the web is similar to the way we would search our home for valuables as it was burning to the ground. Frantically.

“We must shift the focus of companies back to the customer and away from shareholder value ... The shift necessitates a fundamental change in our prevailing theory of the firm… The current theory holds that the singular goal of the corporation should be shareholder value maximization. Instead, companies should place customers at the center of the firm and focus on delighting them, while earning an acceptable return for shareholders.”

“We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.”

Comments

My friend Anna came up with the bike route idea. Unfortunately I only have email as prior art, and now she will be jumping mad that someone actually thought the same thing



And, the routes should be user contributed. And it should probably include public transit info, too.



It could probably be built with Google Maps and magic. Let's get funding!

Posted by Boris Mann
  at 7:54 am on Apr. 28, 2005

Here I am!



Great minds think alike--I too would like to see something like this. I'm positive there are tons of people that have thought of this idea, but it baffles me that it doesn?t exist. Mapquest and the like are pretty handy for car drivers, but directions using major highways and expressways don?t do much for anyone on a bike or on foot. You can find maps of paths for most major cities online, but they're crazy hard to make sense of. Check out this ridiculous map on Ottawa?s web site, for example: http://apps101.ottawa.ca/travelwise/map/english/cycling_map_e.asp Not .very user friendly.



Surely there must be someone working on something similar to this?



p.s. - I think it should be called Pathquest

Posted by Anna
  at 9:41 am on Apr. 28, 2005

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