Dave's dashboard

i want to see course grade apps on Igoogle. It helps so much to motivate a student if they are simply aware of their grades and progess. the more aware a student is about their studies...the more likley they will be to work harder.

Tool bars are just down right annoying.... seriously find a way to integrate it into normal communication with it pretty much being out of site out of mind. Tool bars do nothing in my opinion but clutter up our browser more than we really need them. something that small as i suggested would be perfect, if you have to, work with google to allow this sort of persionilization. – Dave, on November 07, 2008 19:50

The way our minds work are very different and range in many ways....it might be good for google to consider developing several different ways of interacting with people in the sense that one format is more visual, another is more auditory...essentially they should be researching the ways to design their system more to make us be able to get in gmail etc, and then get our stuff done, and then get out.

other than that ----in Gcal....while you can schedule events, it think it would be helpful to make it possible to take into account travel time to and from a destination. The Gcal would have to be more integrated with Gmaps of course, but if this was done well it would enable some one to plan out their day in such a way that they know exactly where they will be at what time. Essentially the travel time feature would have to consider where some one would be starting from, wheather they have access to Cars, public transit, bike, walking...etc(forms of transit) and use the average amount of time it takes under current conditions to estimate what time we must leave an event in order to make it to our next appointment.

also, obesity is epideminc in a sense...people need to eat healthier...sooo how could google assist this. --- : ) --- well i suggest google sit down with all the major grocery store companies and talk them into pushing the idea of creating a google powered service that indexes the various food items that people purchase.
I belive the companies that create the debit card machine hardware would have to be involved because essentially google would have to recieve a list of each individual item that is purchased at either a grocery store...and eventually all fast food stores and even possibly little mom and pop stores. The list should include such information as
The type of food item
price
location purchased
nutritional facts

with this type of info google could create a service that could monitor the sort of food that a person or family are consuming and not only could the service use the incoming information to suggest changes in a families diet in order to become more healthy, but they could also use the information of price and size to really create competiton between grocery chains by allowing them to compete online and showing the average price for certain items at various stores.

i think my last idea could be extended even further as RFID chips are eventually introduced more and more into society.

tell me what you think--