The plagiarism thing was just a suggestion of what you could do with SamBB. Another option if existing tech is advanced would be to see about finding a way to incorporate existing anti-plagiarism tools into SamBB, rather than create your own. Maybe youd get browny points for following the web 2.0 route?

Im sure there are loads of other tools you could build into SamBB. Not only do you have a fully functioning script/website already, but youve got the knowledge of how it was all put together to allow you to spend time making extras for it when others would be struggling to build a site.

Other things off the top of my head...advanced user statistics. Im not talking post counts here, Im talking Multivariate analysis of variance between groups etc. Not sure what it could be used for but you never know. That kind of stats package could be pretty useful on a successful consumer review type of message board. The forum could automatically profile its users based on the kind of content in their posts, once profiled it could perform some stats analysis to drive either targetted advertising at the users or be used in market research?

The fact that samBB is a script, means that the whole package would be marketable, unlike a standalone website that was built for a single/client use, which could be copied, but not as easily?

Lets forget about SamBB.

Final year project that has to be a website... hmm, bit difficult to choose one that hasnt been done before, the web arena is a bit saturated nowerdays.

You could do something that has been done but not quite in a way that its been done.

Online OS.

Code up a web based OS, so the core functions allow the integration of "modules" that can be coded by a 3rd party. You have an OS... but oh you want a word processor... install this... make a packaging technology for the OS, and voomph theres office.

You want some games... run this WEXE (web executable??) and voompf...youve got games.

Allows people to install programs on their web based OS with ease. Not just served witha default offering.

Soo your project would consist of.

An operating system.
A packaging method for various applications (example: RPM/MSI...)
The ability for code to be "installed" on a user by user basis.

You can talk for further info on security, the storage of data, how applications will integrate, the saving of state, having it bootable over a network??? huge area to go into.

An example of current offerings have a google for ghost. its a pretty damn fixed thing but what youre bringing to the table is the ability to install and uninstall any applications to that web based OS on the fly.

lottery results predictors, get your lecturer to win the lottery and then youll get all the credit you want I predict.

Good idea but doesnt interest me.  

how about some altruistic bollocks then - normally goes down well at unis etc..

online resorce for blind kids....

basic front end that allows them to use arrow keys to move over a menu (words read out for each menu option (mail, wordprocessor etc..))

basic mail system will allow them to scan over a list of mails (reading out "mail from joe blogs at blogs .com" etc..) then select a mail to be read... at any point a menu option sould allow them to find out where they are... could type a mail where each keystroke is read out etc...

word processor could be compatible with a brail keyboard etc...

just an idea anyway

imdb for music....

because youve mentiond it plenty of times before in the past so you probably have half a dozen ideas for it already

how complex does it have to be ?   guess the website and database are pretty simple really... ?

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because youve mentiond it plenty of times before in the past so you probably have half a dozen ideas for it already

how complex does it have to be ?   guess the website and database are pretty simple really... ?

IMDB for music  = Last.fm.

Sam if you are this indecisive, just take one of the projects the lecturers are offering.

What would be interesting is a video sharing site but not youtube
Create a java video site for high quality video like stage 6 but what your difference/motivation and goal would be to create an underpinning system which will attempt to detect videos through titles, comments as well as other means to avoid copyright material being uploaded as most if not all currently out there can not handle this very well

I just woke up so I will have 100 and 10 ideas in a bit

Sam what else then music interests you?

Ahh there is another, not seen a true imb site for sport in a decent manner

-Go to it enter tigers, get all info on a team and players, make it wiki based so this can be easily kept up to date, photos and media and clips be an important aspect of it with a layout like that of old sports cards of player profiles etc
- Do something in regard to semantic websites

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Quote from: knightyimdb for music....

because youve mentiond it plenty of times before in the past so you probably have half a dozen ideas for it already

how complex does it have to be ?   guess the website and database are pretty simple really... ?

IMDB for music  = Last.fm.

Sam if you are this indecisive, just take one of the projects the lecturers are offering.

What projects? This isnt the UK, you have to actually work at uni in the states (although of course neither compare to a proper job).

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Create a java video site for high quality video like stage 6 but what your difference/motivation and goal would be to create an underpinning system which will attempt to detect videos through titles, comments as well as other means to avoid copyright material being uploaded as most if not all currently out there can not handle this very well

I just woke up so I will have 100 and 10 ideas in a bit

Sam what else then music interests you?

Ahh there is another, not seen a true imb site for sport in a decent manner

-Go to it enter tigers, get all info on a team and players, make it wiki based so this can be easily kept up to date, photos and media and clips be an important aspect of it with a layout like that of old sports cards of player profiles etc
- Do something in regard to semantic websites

A sport IMDB is interesting but does anyone really care ?

a search engine that excludes shops.

Nothing worse than searching for somthing & all the top slots are taken by kelkoo, etc.

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2 words

americans + stats

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Quote from: SamA sport IMDB is interesting but does anyone really care ?

2 words

americans + stats

Thats a good point lol

A website that can emulate another website but alter the code. EG, something that can change the CSS in a frame. Could build on Daves altruistic idea. Could make it so the browser auto reads words out. Ok, so others do that. But also provide options for dynamically changing the website?

Online stock control system for an equipment store? the ConSci store room at uni here is in desperate need of something that can keep track of whats in stock and whats out and by who and for how long etc.