Comments on: Are shared units of wealth still relevant in a world of open data? http://lebleu.org/blog/2010/04/21/are-shared-units-of-wealth-still-relevant-in-a-world-of-open-data/ Thoughts on the future of money Wed, 04 Sep 2013 05:52:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.42 By: Dominic Canterbury http://lebleu.org/blog/2010/04/21/are-shared-units-of-wealth-still-relevant-in-a-world-of-open-data/comment-page-1/#comment-1116 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 07:49:20 +0000 http://lebleu.org/blog/?p=339#comment-1116 Hi Guillaume,
I saw your post and I thought you might be interested in this.
For a whole year, I'll be living entirely on a community currency – the Dibit.
I'll use the currency to cover everything from food to rent to health care.
I think the project will do a lot to show people exactly how far you can go on a secondary currency.
Here's a link if you'd like to read more: http://dibspace.wordpress.com/2010/04/16/living…

Dominic

]]> By: Guillaume Lebleu http://lebleu.org/blog/2010/04/21/are-shared-units-of-wealth-still-relevant-in-a-world-of-open-data/comment-page-1/#comment-1115 Thu, 22 Apr 2010 19:32:57 +0000 http://lebleu.org/blog/?p=339#comment-1115 Yes, I think it is possible we might see a payment-related activity (Facebook has in the past been testing the idea of making microdonations to content posted by friends).

But in a way, my point is: it's not needed since we can rely on “Mark as Liked” or “Mark as Favorite” – which are more meaningful – to then compute how to direct our energy (in the case of flattr.com, how to split our monthly $ commitment).

Reusing the existing Twitter functionality “Mark as liked” and computing automatically a fixed $ amount sounds like a great idea.

]]> By: Jussi Rytkönen http://lebleu.org/blog/2010/04/21/are-shared-units-of-wealth-still-relevant-in-a-world-of-open-data/comment-page-1/#comment-1114 Thu, 22 Apr 2010 12:49:23 +0000 http://lebleu.org/blog/?p=339#comment-1114 Do you think these activity streams could also be combined with more traditional money (before we finally get rid of it)? I love the idea of Flattr (http://flattr.com/) and i'm hoping that in the future microdonations will be the driving force behind internet productivity.

I'm also building a new web app for Twitter, with the idea that for each tweets users read they have to respond, wheter they “liked” it, don't find it interesting, or simply have “read” it, removing it from the stream of “new tweats”. This information is used to valuate tweets based on who has written them and what content they have (things like hashtags), and in the future show “liked” content higher and “uninteresting” content lower in the stream.

I'm also playing around with the idea, of how this could be great platfrom for giving microdonations. If the system learns who has produced which content (based on semantic syntax, like /by @user), you could use it like Flattr, dividing, lets say 10€/month, to creators of content that you have liked.

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