Dear Google Org, Amazon and Linden Labs People:

I submit this idea for your consideration:

It has been posted to the Internet via Google docs, its URL is:

http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dcjvvpr5_2frhqm6

ZON Dollars Where the Virtual & Real World Collides for Good in the World:

The idea for ZON dollars has its roots in three things I read as the final moments of 2006 played out:

1. Allision H Fine’s wonderful new book: “Momentum-igniting social change in the connected age.”, which can be purchased at Amazon.
2. Amazon’s new project that uses 37signals Ruby on Rails to build a new application called Unspun , which is based on an application Amazon has called the mechanical Turk.
3.An article called: “What is Second Life?” Of course, the reference to a virtual currency comes directly from Second Life’s “The Linden
dollar”.

I guess the challenge delivered by Allision Fine in her book:
“Momentum” is how do we harness technology and the economy to do good?

ZON dollars is my attempt at doing just that through the creation of a virtual currency that at its core involves both voluteerism and doing good
throughout the world.

ZON dollars can only be earned by:

1. individuals or corporations donating to recognized charities(those that can issues tax receipts) for conversion into ZON dollars, for the sole purpose of motivating people to do good.
through the use of those ZON dollars.
2. doing virtual work through participating companies like Amazon’s Mechanical Turk Service, a portion, determined by the worker goes to
charities in the form of ZON dollars, while the remainder goes to the virtual worker, to be used as they see fit.
3. corporations who are so confident of the worth of their product that they openly invite comparision by consumers, donate ZON dollars
to encourge concensus rankings of their product using Amazon’s new Unspun service. People are encouraged to vote on the best products i
in those categories, and the ZON dollars are distributed to the charity that the sponsoring corporation names when they open the community
concensus on their product category.

ZON dollars can be converted to:

1. real currency for use to purchase goods at Amazon.com or via Google’s new ecommerce system.
2. they can be converted to Linden dollars for use in Second Life.

So I guess those are my inititial thoughts related to the ZON dollar concept, I will now publish this, and also email the concept to the above
named entities that could actually implement the concept, a. Google.org, Amazon’s Unspun & Second Life.

As Allision Fine’s book title says, I wonder if this concept will:

‘ignite social change in the connected age”

Sincerely

Gregers Ritzer-January 1, 2007
By Lifepath Unlimited
Lifepath Unlimited Review

http://spaces.msn.com/members/rayozzie/
By Lifepath Unlimited
Lifepath Unlimited Review

nixMoneyMachine-sticking it to the status quo!

this new category, came about as a direct result of my disgust with a recent headline about Microsoft releasing a product which has been called an iPod Killer! Fuck it, I have had with this kind of BS, where monopolies that don’t have an innovative fiber in their being, watch the market and wade in after an innovator like Apple creates it out of nothing, and then ends up losing it, just because of the monoolie’s sheer size and money reserves!

Microsoft did this against the Mac, then against Netscape! Do we as consumers have to keep supporting greedy monopolies!

I remember when Mosaic first came out and for me the Internet was a place where the little guy could innovate and create a decent living, and in some cases create fortunes based upon creativity, hard work and luck! The iPod Killer headline is so cynical, and it assumes that the only thing the consumer cares about is money, and that the only thing the producer concerns themselves with is money too!

Well how bout this, why don’t we come up with some truly innovative business models that put the power in the hands of the content producer, and in the process create cheaper content, get more people producing digital content, and get more developing nations into the digital economy as well!

Accoring to Robert Young found of Red Hat:

“You can’t compete with a monopoly by playing the game by the monopolist’s rules.”

Well fuck the old models, the old rules and the old approach to operating systems, software and digital content!

I have just had it with this bullshit, and this is what nixMoneyMachine is about, proposing new economic models to stick it to the status quo!

Stay tuned!

from Roland’s new job at Streamline:

  What is the StreamLine blog about?

Sunday, December 14

  Who is StreamLine?

by roland on December 14, 2003 11:42PM (PST)

For now, StreamLine, is basically me! Of course, we have plans to take over the world and recruit other bloggers in the future !

I have many years of experience in both the software development business and corporate and personal blogging.

I have been blogging since 1999! Check out some of my blogs:

• RolandTanglao.com – focused mainly on blogging, RSS and social software like blogs, and Wikis.
  
• VanEats.com – eating in Vancouver, over 200 recipes, restaurant reviews, etc. updated daily since June 2000
  
• Developer.e-xact.com – news, views, and code related to E-xact’s e-commerce and transaction processing Software Development Kits and applications

How to Contact Us

Email Roland AT RolandTanglao.com or call me at +1 604 729-7924

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  What is StreamLine?

by roland on December 14, 2003 10:58PM (PST)

StreamLine is our new one stop blogging shop!

Blogs (also called weblogs) are easily updateable websites that anybody (not just techies) can update with a web browser or through email. They are turning mainstream as a way to share the voice of your self or your organization in an informal, conversational style with the world. Most importantly, they are a great way to build a community and conversation with your customers and make money in the process!

StreamLine handles all aspects of blogging:

• We will set up a blog for you. Our preferred blogging solution is a hosted blog from Blogware and we are an authorized Blogware reseller. We are familiar with Radio UserLand, Manila, MovableType, TypePad, etc., so if for some strange reason you don’t want a Blogware blog we can set you up with whatever you require.
  
• If you need email, a domain name, DNS services or anything else to go with your blog, we will provide that also.
  
• We will teach you how to blog and how you can make best use of blogs and RSS, a new way to syndicate your blog and business process information.
  
• If you need help writing your blog, we can do that too.

StreamLine is not a software development company! We love writing code but would rather minimize writing code and use it only as a means to ‘connect the dots’ and integrate software and services from other companies to make blogging easier for our customers.

Don’t worry if none of the above makes any sense to you. If you are interested in blogging or RSS, call me at 604 729-7924 or email roland at roland AT rolandtanglao.com.

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Making Blogs Different

the following article was posted by Dave Winer, and is important reading for creating a 21st Century approach to grassroots news reporting, gathering and sharing! Jeez, aren’t we all tired of the same old same old, that a handful of technology companies own everything, and no individual or small company can compete!

take a read of the follwoing article of Dave Winer:

At the meeting with Dave Sifry and Kevin Marks last week, we had a long discussion about doing development in the open. I said that it was really important that we do so. I told Kevin, on the drive down to San Jose, that I feel we’re at a turning point in the weblog world, either we’re going to be like every other hierarchy that’s ever been, with secret deals, lots of impediments to progress, eventual stagnation; or we’re going to overcome that. I’ve been through this before, many times. The early days of the Apple II market held great promise, then the IBM PC, then the Mac, then the Web. And so it goes. Nothing ever seems to change. Either you’re in or out, and if you’re out, sometimes you can’t even tell until it’s too late. I don’t want to be part of that. So if Sifry has competitors, I want them to know how to be compatible with me. Same if I have competitors. So what if it helps the other guy. There are worse things. Anyway, with that preamble, Dave and Kevin, check out the category element on this feed. It tells you all you need to know to understand the context. Here’s a screen shot in case that link goes 404 (very likely). 

Dear Google Org, Amazon and Linden Labs People:

I submit this idea for your consideration:

It has been posted to the Internet via Google docs, its URL is:

http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dcjvvpr5_2frhqm6

ZON Dollars Where the Virtual & Real World Collides for Good in the World:

The idea for ZON dollars has its roots in three things I read as the final moments of 2006 played out:

1. Allision H Fine’s wonderful new book: “Momentum-igniting social change in the connected age.”, which can be purchased at Amazon.
2. Amazon’s new project that uses 37signals Ruby on Rails to build a new application called Unspun , which is based on an application Amazon has called the mechanical Turk.
3.An article called: “What is Second Life?” Of course, the reference to a virtual currency comes directly from Second Life’s “The Linden
dollar”.

I guess the challenge delivered by Allision Fine in her book:
“Momentum” is how do we harness technology and the economy to do good?

ZON dollars is my attempt at doing just that through the creation of a virtual currency that at its core involves both voluteerism and doing good
throughout the world.

ZON dollars can only be earned by:

1. individuals or corporations donating to recognized charities(those that can issues tax receipts) for conversion into ZON dollars, for the sole purpose of motivating people to do good.
through the use of those ZON dollars.
2. doing virtual work through participating companies like Amazon’s Mechanical Turk Service, a portion, determined by the worker goes to
charities in the form of ZON dollars, while the remainder goes to the virtual worker, to be used as they see fit.
3. corporations who are so confident of the worth of their product that they openly invite comparision by consumers, donate ZON dollars
to encourge concensus rankings of their product using Amazon’s new Unspun service. People are encouraged to vote on the best products i
in those categories, and the ZON dollars are distributed to the charity that the sponsoring corporation names when they open the community
concensus on their product category.

ZON dollars can be converted to:

1. real currency for use to purchase goods at Amazon.com or via Google’s new ecommerce system.
2. they can be converted to Linden dollars for use in Second Life.

So I guess those are my inititial thoughts related to the ZON dollar concept, I will now publish this, and also email the concept to the above
named entities that could actually implement the concept, a. Google.org, Amazon’s Unspun & Second Life.

As Allision Fine’s book title says, I wonder if this concept will:

‘ignite social change in the connected age”

Sincerely

Gregers Ritzer-January 1, 2007
By Lifepath Unlimited
Lifepath Unlimited Review

http://spaces.msn.com/members/rayozzie/
By Lifepath Unlimited
Lifepath Unlimited Review

nixMoneyMachine-sticking it to the status quo!

this new category, came about as a direct result of my disgust with a recent headline about Microsoft releasing a product which has been called an iPod Killer! Fuck it, I have had with this kind of BS, where monopolies that don’t have an innovative fiber in their being, watch the market and wade in after an innovator like Apple creates it out of nothing, and then ends up losing it, just because of the monoolie’s sheer size and money reserves!

Microsoft did this against the Mac, then against Netscape! Do we as consumers have to keep supporting greedy monopolies!

I remember when Mosaic first came out and for me the Internet was a place where the little guy could innovate and create a decent living, and in some cases create fortunes based upon creativity, hard work and luck! The iPod Killer headline is so cynical, and it assumes that the only thing the consumer cares about is money, and that the only thing the producer concerns themselves with is money too!

Well how bout this, why don’t we come up with some truly innovative business models that put the power in the hands of the content producer, and in the process create cheaper content, get more people producing digital content, and get more developing nations into the digital economy as well!

Accoring to Robert Young found of Red Hat:

“You can’t compete with a monopoly by playing the game by the monopolist’s rules.”

Well fuck the old models, the old rules and the old approach to operating systems, software and digital content!

I have just had it with this bullshit, and this is what nixMoneyMachine is about, proposing new economic models to stick it to the status quo!

Stay tuned!

from Roland’s new job at Streamline:

  What is the StreamLine blog about?

Sunday, December 14

  Who is StreamLine?

by roland on December 14, 2003 11:42PM (PST)

For now, StreamLine, is basically me! Of course, we have plans to take over the world and recruit other bloggers in the future !

I have many years of experience in both the software development business and corporate and personal blogging.

I have been blogging since 1999! Check out some of my blogs:

• RolandTanglao.com – focused mainly on blogging, RSS and social software like blogs, and Wikis.
  
• VanEats.com – eating in Vancouver, over 200 recipes, restaurant reviews, etc. updated daily since June 2000
  
• Developer.e-xact.com – news, views, and code related to E-xact’s e-commerce and transaction processing Software Development Kits and applications

How to Contact Us

Email Roland AT RolandTanglao.com or call me at +1 604 729-7924

Comments: 0  |  Trackbacks: 0  |  Show Details  |  #

  What is StreamLine?

by roland on December 14, 2003 10:58PM (PST)

StreamLine is our new one stop blogging shop!

Blogs (also called weblogs) are easily updateable websites that anybody (not just techies) can update with a web browser or through email. They are turning mainstream as a way to share the voice of your self or your organization in an informal, conversational style with the world. Most importantly, they are a great way to build a community and conversation with your customers and make money in the process!

StreamLine handles all aspects of blogging:

• We will set up a blog for you. Our preferred blogging solution is a hosted blog from Blogware and we are an authorized Blogware reseller. We are familiar with Radio UserLand, Manila, MovableType, TypePad, etc., so if for some strange reason you don’t want a Blogware blog we can set you up with whatever you require.
  
• If you need email, a domain name, DNS services or anything else to go with your blog, we will provide that also.
  
• We will teach you how to blog and how you can make best use of blogs and RSS, a new way to syndicate your blog and business process information.
  
• If you need help writing your blog, we can do that too.

StreamLine is not a software development company! We love writing code but would rather minimize writing code and use it only as a means to ‘connect the dots’ and integrate software and services from other companies to make blogging easier for our customers.

Don’t worry if none of the above makes any sense to you. If you are interested in blogging or RSS, call me at 604 729-7924 or email roland at roland AT rolandtanglao.com.

Comments: 2  |  Trackbacks: 4  |  Show Details  |  #

Making Blogs Different

the following article was posted by Dave Winer, and is important reading for creating a 21st Century approach to grassroots news reporting, gathering and sharing! Jeez, aren’t we all tired of the same old same old, that a handful of technology companies own everything, and no individual or small company can compete!

take a read of the follwoing article of Dave Winer:

At the meeting with Dave Sifry and Kevin Marks last week, we had a long discussion about doing development in the open. I said that it was really important that we do so. I told Kevin, on the drive down to San Jose, that I feel we’re at a turning point in the weblog world, either we’re going to be like every other hierarchy that’s ever been, with secret deals, lots of impediments to progress, eventual stagnation; or we’re going to overcome that. I’ve been through this before, many times. The early days of the Apple II market held great promise, then the IBM PC, then the Mac, then the Web. And so it goes. Nothing ever seems to change. Either you’re in or out, and if you’re out, sometimes you can’t even tell until it’s too late. I don’t want to be part of that. So if Sifry has competitors, I want them to know how to be compatible with me. Same if I have competitors. So what if it helps the other guy. There are worse things. Anyway, with that preamble, Dave and Kevin, check out the category element on this feed. It tells you all you need to know to understand the context. Here’s a screen shot in case that link goes 404 (very likely).