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Browsers are fast enough to stream the x-y location of your mouse
pointer back to the server. It should be easy enough to collect the
pointer locations of all users on a web page, and display these as
firefly trails on the page itself.
I'm not sure what this would be useful for (halfbakery,
after all!) But it
should:
Potentially show the main points of interest on a site, along with
seeing its popularity "live", and...
...you probably would never feel alone on a popular page, even though
you have no idea who your firefly neighbours are.
your world of text
http://yourworldoftext.com/home/
"infinite grid of text editable by any visitor. The changes made by other people appear on your screen as they happen." [Eubalaena, Sep 02 2011]
Part 1 of the idea.
http://javascript.i...se-coordinates.html
Shows the Client-Side Javascript needed for this. [monojohnny, Sep 03 2011]
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Easy enough then to use my 100,000-strong botnet to cooperatively send Viagra spam advertising firefly trails to popular web pages |
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To solve hippo's problem, perhaps specific hardware
can be used. A USB mouse with a "share" button. The
software would be installed with the mouse so only
the kids on shared facebook pages can use it, but
the spam advertising companies cannot, because it
goes thru a server anonymising the input and making
it worthless for spam companies. |
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//Viagra spam advertising firefly trails//
hippo here generating his own spam message headers. |
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I once came across a website which I have since
been unable to find, but it was a seemingly infinitely
large page upon which you could type anything
whatsoever and so could anyone else who was on the
site. I'm pretty sure the page refreshed quick
enough that you could observe other people altering
the page. |
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also this would be awesome, the internet would be a
little less solitary |
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Link to facebook/gmail and you could see which pointers belong to women and which ones are men's. You could even display brief statistics about each one, like planes on a control tower's radar screens. |
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The internet needs *something* like this. |
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