MiiU.org
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Name | MiiU.org |
|---|---|
| Website | miiu.org |
| Description | Visual database for resilient people, places, and things |
| Operating Analogy | Anti-Facebook that empowers super-users & pays the crowd |
| Video Resources | John Robb on Open Ventures vimeo.com/... |
| Founder(s) | [more info needed] John Robb typepad.com/... Shlok Vaidya shloky.com/, David Rauschenbach rauschenbach.us/... |
| Control | currently JR & SV provide leadership, mentoring, backend platform upgrades > driven by user suggestions/requests, MEANWHILE tribes are self-organizing to create & curate content |
| Revenue sources | Google AdSense contextual ads, Amazon Associates affiliate ads |
| Revenue distribution | 10% > founders w/ cap @ $120k/ year, ?% > tech costs, ?% > seed new open ventures, 80% (?) to participants allocated w/MMO gaming software according to contribution. Currently: all Amazon affiliate revenue is available to page creator/maintainer(s) |
| Who can participate | anyone, wiki-style |
| Learning Curve | moderately easy |
| Entry threshold | become a user; learn mediawiki; create pages & upload photos; link your Amazon affiliate account to ads on your pages; future: link your (eg: PayPal) account to MiiU username for venture-wide revenue sharing |
| Platform/User Interface | mediawiki (same software that Wikipedia is built on) |
| Transparency | |
| Looking for | Page builders/curators, pageview promoters |
| Succession: What if Founders get bored...or die? | tbd |
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