My friend owns a sporting goods shop and is a huge enthusiast of all sports. His sporting goods shop does well and is also a type of meeting place and lounge for people who participate in different leagues of different sports from around the city. Every type of sports team and league from Football teams, Bowling leagues, Billiards leagues, rugby teams, poker buddies, Golf leagues,

Hey Jawhar, I know that you’re in school Studying Information technology. How would I take this idea and turn it to a web site where people from all over the world can interact based on the sports that they enjoy.
That sounds really cool. What you should do is create a site within your store site where People can interact, Post and share pictures/videos ask for advice and sell their used sports equipment to each other. It would be what is called a web 2.0 Company. A Web 2.0 company is a company that has its foundation set in the web: The internet is its main platform and all other steams of the business stems from that main platform.
Within that platform the user controls their data. I believe this to be one of the most important aspects of and Web 2.0 site.
What do you mean by that? Control their data?
A great example would be how on facebook you only see the post of who you have accepted as friends. This would be similar in the way that if your part of the foot ball and bowling community you wouldn’t see post for rugby.
That’s interesting.
It would almost be like Facebook and EBay combined but sports would be the concentration. Now the next important aspect would be that as more people join the systems start to improve due to the shearing of Ideas or collective intelligence. The more people use the site the easier it will be to use. The foundation and growth of the site is self is built on the participation of the sports communities. Of course being part of any community is free and there will be upgrades that you can figure out at a later date to keep the cost down for the user as well as for yourself. You are creating a space for people to interact, almost like an online sports bar that has a few TVs that are showing every sport that people are interested in. This is to just get you started. Do more research on web or enterprise 2.0 companies to get a deeper understanding of what you are getting yourself into but I think you have a great Idea.
Thanks. You really helped me out. I’ll do some more research tonight. Talk to you later. Bye.
See ya.