Re: [projectvrm] App.net has exceeded $500k, 10k users goal

[Kaliya < >]

Diddo... its centralized...that IS the issue...not just the business model. 

I just met with Evan Prodromo (fearless leader of the Federated Social Web 
efforts - two summits on the topic in two years, leader of the W3C Community 
group) on Saturday afternoon and by the end of this week we will hopefully 
have confirmed that the Federated Social Web will meet on October 22nd (with 
Evan leading the invitation process and programming choices for the day - 
presentations from existing efforts, promising protocols, talking about 
critical issues) and then that group community flowing into IIW.  

I see it as complementary we have three major sub communities of IIW meeting 
in depth on Monday to make the most out of Open Space time Tuesday to 
Thursday. 

We are also talking to the WEF folks about how that community actively 
participates at IIW...

AND now that I just spend the day in London with Markus presenting to an 
investment fund who is very keen to engage in supporting a diverse range of 
efforts...I'm keen on working with known investors/potential investors in the 
space how they also connect/self organize at/around IIW. 

- Kaliya




On Aug 13, 2012, at 6:06 PM, Doc Searls wrote:

> See Dave Winer on this:
> 
> http://scripting.com/stories/2012/08/13/anotherUseFor50.html
> 
> Specifically,
> 
>> app.net is still based on a centralized model, and I happen to believe 
>> that a decentralized approach is the only one that works long-term. It's 
>> the only way to preserve freedom of speech, and to allocate costs fairly 
>> to the people who use the most resources. And to provide a variety of 
>> tools and environments to satisfy a wide variety of use-cases.
>> 
>> So I'd like to put an alternate idea out there. 
>> 
>> A microblogging server that's a simple install on EC2 or Rackspace or any 
>> other easy cloud-based server. 
> 
> Would that be Status.net?
> 
> Doc
> 
> On Aug 13, 2012, at 12:42 PM, Jim Bursch 
> <
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>  wrote:
> 
>> When I logged in this morning I saw that App.net has well exceeded its 
>> goal to raise $500k from 10k users.
>> 
>> It will be interesting to see what comes next.
>> 
>> I'm on board as a developer. Any other VRMites out there who are members? 
>> Perhaps we can get organized and see what we can do to bring VRM 
>> principles and practices to the App.net community/platform.
>> 
>> I have posted the #VRM hashtag on the alpha stream: https://alpha.app.net/
>> 
>> For more info on this App.net thing, go to http://join.app.net
>> 
>> -- 
>> Jim Bursch
>> 310-869-5340
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