Web 2.0 PerfTrack Concept

Here's a god little concept for a Web 2.0 era application that I imagine someone could write and sell or distribute as freeware...

Write a small desktop app that monitors and measures desktop performaance before during and after eapp applicaiton or Web 2.0 applet is "installed" on your systems and then provide reports not only to the system owner and (if the system owner allows) to the application or applet publisher so that it creates a virteous cycle of performance improvment. This report can then be used to help the system owner understand which apps to keep, what to dump and so on...

The aggregated data across thousands of systems could then be used as an 'impact rating' of sorts and placed as a tag at the download source (i.e. www.download.com) so that potential users could make value decisions before even attempting the install.

You could even have an agent running on the system that would predict the impact of installing a particualr applicaiton/applet based on this data at the master ratings server that could have specific threasholds on what to install and uninstall and could make algorithmic recommendations on what to uninstall first so as to maintain minimum system wide performance features...

I could even see a Federated system that would live inside the IT shop of large Enterprises that would help the users make value judgetments on what to have on their systems so as to reduce the overall Helpdesk calls at IT...

just an idea... it needs more baking time...

Ken Cavallon

"It's In the Ether"

Thomas Edison is rumored to have said "...it's in the Ether (air)..." when asked how so many of the industrial revolution experiments could have been claimed to be invented at the same time. I take it to mean that Edison believed in divine inspiration of a sort that recognizes that creativity is not solely of one's own production but rather there is inspiration floating about out there for the right lightening rod to capture and turn into human observable reality. It is the first, most widely recognized individual that claims to have been that lightening rod that we call the "Inventor".

In many ways I have always fancied myself and "Inventor". I have great ideas (at least the small number of people that I share them with agree that they are great) and some not so great ideas (I tend not to share those too widely...). Here is where I will share some ideas in the hopes that the Web 2.0 world will pick them up and do something with them (I am usually referred to as "A Man of Action" however far too many of my ideas or inventions have not come to full enough fruition that others can take use of them). I have other (private) blogs that consist of those ideas that I yet want to keep for myself so anything you see on this site feel free to take to the next level, incorporate into your ideas or otherwise, I have but one proviso... if you use them in any way, please provide credit where credit is do and publish something to the effect of "Based in whole or in part on the concepts of Ken Cavallon." Call me vain, sure, but hey, isn't that, at its core, what this whole Blog thing really is? If not, wouldn't we still just be using little notebooks called 'diaries'?

Thanks for understanding,

Ken