An idea for a possible social networking mashup. This application would be linked into your social network wherein users add it. It keeps track of people’s weekly schedules and media watching habits. When it notices a convergence of a likely desirable media item and a free slot in everyone’s calendar it’ll push everyone a message to their appropriate social network with an “opt-in” request. If enough people opt in it’ll create the event officially and standard reminding mechanisms and calendar penciling occurs automatically.

Based on pre-configuration options, if enough people opt out the event is cancelled.

Obviously access to event listings is a key feature, as is locally dependent search.

If it could plan out whole evenings automatically based on user-data - so that it can generate a list of suggested restaurants based on the preferences of those going and the geographic location of the event/participants.

I know something exists like this for finding mid-point restaurants, but this takes it a step further by pre-populating the type constraints and timing data.

If it could hook into a transit system database to trip plan or automatically phone taxis / calculate fares we’d have something amazing.

Posted by Jeremy on Saturday, March 8th, 2008 at 3:50 am.