When I brought up FTTH I was referring to how it would change things. An internet without bandwidth limitations is completely different from one where you constantly have to consider how many seconds your site will take to load. There will be entirely new genres* created for new businesses, it is one of these I wish to take advantage of, hopefully before they even manifest themselves.
I think you also misinterpreted me when I said I agreed with you about there being a market for webdesign. There is a market, and there are ways to be the best in that market, but I'd rather think more in terms of creating my own market, not dealing with one that's already got quite a bit of competition.
Maybe I should rename this thread to something like, "Looking for people with tech-related business ideas to share." I think the formality of my subject caused you guys (kaycee and cppgrl) to think I really had some sort of polished and printed vision of what I had in mind and that I was already making job offers or something. I don't... though I wish I did!
*Here are a few of the genres I think will yield some $$$ in the near future:
digital books: amazon's huge new Search Inside the Book project, though specifically aiming to enhance tangible books, is a big step toward ebooks.. new software/hardware for making them more enjoyable and easier to read may be appropriate.
search engines: currently inadequate. They need more than a facelift for an internet without bandwidth limitations, they need to be wholly recreated. Even google only catalogs approximately 4 billion of the web's tens of billions of estimated pages, and the web is only one factor of the protocols that create the net.
music distribution: mp3s are in such controversy because the old, inefficient system is too fat, greedy, and unable to accept the approaching revolution... something needs to be done to get money to the artists, but $1/song is not the solution, nor is the interface for the sites (napster,itunes,etc) that offer this.
See.. all i've got are ideas, places to begin.. nothing to jump on, especially as a student without capital. I don't naively think that I can just startup a company to compete with amazon's project or help lay fiber to homes, but I think even picking up the crumbs that these projects leave behind would be sufficient for a business idea... maybe I'll be their janitor.
