odd proxy thought of the day.

Another couple of times my machine has been hanging to display the page while it gets an image from an avertising server ( hint store them locally guys).

I just had the idea of a local proxy server ( possibly a permachine proxy or local grou better ) this would look for requests or adverts and banners. The concept would be to replace these with calls you make up special banners for you. For example you might find an avert repalced with 'bob you have a meeting in 20mins'. Or info on your disk usage ( 2 years 3 months until hard drive is full or Email from ruth arrived in 10 mins.

I quite like this combined with the RCA products avertsing features for things you already own.
'Want to make you images look older look for sepia in your copy of Photoshop'.

I've already had thoguhts on a local P2P proxy. Everytime you machine asks for an image or static page the UDP request goes out to the local network to see if anyone has it. This way people share cache space with out complex proxys.

Perhaps you could combine this with a web only style suggestions 'you looked at this and you might want to think about that web page that someone else looked at at the same time'.

Finally you could also include the southhampton addtion of suggested links. That is it looks at the content and adds links to enhance the content ( although there should be something that does that statically for all web pages ).