Sportfans unite
The folklore at microsoft says that ms got super interested in what real audio was doing when Jeff Raikes found out he could listen to sports programs from his old university. Jeff is, in my opinion, an incredibly smart guy and, having worked for the man, i tend to believe he was a quiet driver behind ms getting cooking with stuff to keep former msft type RobG honest.
fast forward to today. if you use any number of the travel sites, they all, to one degree or another, allow you to import travel information into your calendar. and, of course, if you are putting meetings and such in your calendar, it will be pretty complete.
somebody should make a net service that i can point my calendar at which will return to me sports that are happening in the town i'm going to be in. wouldn't it be awesome to have a site that could tell you the spurs were in town that night, tickets were available, and with one click or a return email, you could get seats.
hard to do? not at all. Ticketmaster, the monster agency, sets up affiliates all over the place to sell tickets. Somebody should get a license, electronically, to be an affiliate and do this. or offer a service to the venues. expand it to music and other events in the city you are travelling.
build a prototype and get the somebody to try it. who knows? But, of course, the larger issue is providing useful services of the obvious. We all know what we like and telling our computer/pda/phones what that stuff is, should allow us to get more out of where we are and, in the process, make somebody a few bucks.
i don't need a list of steak resturants, i need to know the nicks are in town when i'm in town.