Facebook Application Name:
EventCast (don’t really like the name, but it’s all I got at this point)

20 word description:
Chat, socialize and interact with anyone in the world about a major scheduled event you are watching or participating in.

The 6-second “Elevator Speech”:
An EventCast is a simple basic chat ‘n share application that lets you communicate while any major event is taking place. It allows anyone to connect instantly with a group who have the same interest to be watching or participating in an event.

The “really in depth” description:
The basis of the site is just giving people a centralized place to go during the time of a major event to chat and communicate (think Super Bowl, American Idol episodes, MTV Music Awards, Greys Anatomy episodes, The Oscars, Sport Playoff Games, The Office episodes, Miss America etc). That’s all it is.

Picture this: The Super Bowl is on tonight. You are taking it easy this year and watching it with a small group. You pull out your MacBook then power up your social graph via Facebook on your laptop or cell phone. You click and jump into the official ” ’09 Super Bowl EventCast” app and you’re instantly connected to any of your friends who are logged into Facebook. You also have the ability to bail from your own friends free to float to different rooms with other FB users.

The first commercial comes on — the chat room is blowing up. It’s another hilarious Bud Light commercial that everyone will be talking about tomorrow at work or school. Your buddy from college makes a funny joke about the chimp in the commercial. You then have the ability to digg vote up (thumbs up icon) on any comment or chat messages people send within your room. If it scores enough of a majority “a really complex algorithm” sends the message as a global message imported to other rooms chat feeds in your network — and if it is voted up there it’s placed globally to all the EventCast rooms on FB.

The idea really is simple. A place to hangout with your friends (who live on Facebook already) when you can’t physically hangout — and it’s all centered around major events you’re likely to be watching anyways. It can also serve as a reminder tool for you as a user so you don’t miss things you might be interested in like the The Olympics or The Presidential Debates. The application could send reminders and invitations asking to see if you want to participate. It could text you minutes before its about to start to make sure you don’t miss out.

There are other things you could do like…

• Make an iPhone app that would stream the chat so you could even be at a park, at a bar, in a airport or sitting on your couch and still participate “on the go”.
• Get corporate sponsors to place advertisements throughout the event on the web application itself.
• Have moderators provide “interactive” components/links in real-time to view more detail of any given topic. For example, you can click-through on the e-Trade website to find out more information on the AD they just aired as a commercial. Companies can choose to advertise their event is “being EventCast’ed” LIVE and to log-in for an “interactive experience.”
• Guest chat hosts could also interact with users — for example, sport broadcasters or designated bloggers can give their real-time feedback on their experience on what it’s like to be there. Users can ask direct questions to the people at the event.

So is it stupid? Does it already exist? (if it does, is it executed well?) Is it a decent idea with a lack of focus? One of these days I’ll actually build out one of my ideas. I hope someone beats me to this one…
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