Dear Google,

Why you should hire me.

I’m smrt. Not as in “book” smart, but “dream up ways to hack things together and create new ideas” smart. This is what google is all about.

Some cool things I’d like to work on:

Maps. Your google mapping application is pretty cool, but I did it first. Back in ‘99 and 2000 while contracting for a GIS company we put together a pretty amazing Internet mapserver application with a javascript client that allowed one line includes to bring a map to any website. If we could have thrown a couple million at it I know we’d be serving to the masses today. I want my idea back. Where would I take it from here? Layers upon layers of extra point, poly and line data as optional add-ins. Give me a layer of all points matching “Home Depot”, or all of the local telephone COs or how about property assessment information for the entire US by county. I know I can do this now with my own data, but couldn’t you just store it all? Really, you’ve got the space. The ability to create thematic maps would be cool too.
 
VOIP. Seen Asterisk? This is a fantastic platform. Your new business listing feature that rings you and connects you to any of their validated business listings is pretty slick. We’ve put together lots of voice applications including a dial-in time clock and various automated scripts to reboot machines, check latency and the like. What about throwing some of google’s processing power at a speech to text interface behind a VOIP gateway that allows me to vocally search the google database (and more) while yapping on my Motorola. 411 be damned. “Spokane, Washington… directions from my phone’s GPS location to the nearest CompUSA”. Or what about “read me the latest slashdot RSS headlines”.

Big databases of “things”. How cool would it be to have a real authoritive UPC database available globally for every product in existence? You’ve counted and indexed all of the web information out there, how about all of the “things” in the world. Give me a couple hundred terrabytes of space on a few good PostgreSQL boxes in a tiny corner of one of your datacenters and I’d be dreaming up ways to index and serve massive amounts of useful information via SOAP or some such (GDATA style?) and drop in some friendly advertising.

I’ve got a lot more jumbling around…cause I’m *that* good.

Call me. Really. You’ve got the number. We’ll do lunch.

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