iBooks Author (iBA) was an e-book authoring application by Apple Inc, released in early 2012, only available for macOS, and discontinued in 2020.[2]... Documents created by iBooks Author could only sold for a fee if they are accepted by and distributed by Apple,[3][4] but authors also had the option to distribute their work elsewhere for free.... iBooks Author was discontinued on July 1, 2020, with Apple suggesting Pages as a replacement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBooks_Author
Daniel Krupka: Polkadot (DOT) Review: Worth It? What You NEED To Know!!* What Dr. Gavin Wood is perhaps most famous for however is creating Solidity, the coding language used to build smart contracts on Ethereum. (more)
CB Insights Research: Blockchain Funding Is At An All-Time High — Here's What's Driving The Boom. Investors poured more money into blockchain companies in H1'21 than they did over the course of any full year in history (more)
Zora is a marketplace to buy, sell and trade limited-edition goods. All of these goods are launched as tokens (NFT).... The Decentralized Auction Protocol for NFTs on Ethereum. https://zora.co/manifesto
Outlier Ventures has an Open-Metaverse-OS Whitepaper. (more)
Jacqueline Garavente on CryptoKitties. I’ve been beating the drum on digital pets and economies of scale for digital assets for a while at USV. I really thought (and still think!) that would be the killer use case for Augmented Reality. Alas, AR has been pushed aside to make way for its hotter and more elusive cousin, crypto. This time, it comes in the form of CryptoKitties. (more)
ConsenSys is a blockchain software technology company founded by Joseph Lubin.. Joseph Lubin founded ConsenSys in early 2015 as a software foundry to develop decentralized software services and applications that operate on the Ethereum blockchain...ConsenSys is involved in many different projects and services for blockchain uses and applications. (more)
A cryptocurrency wallet is a device,[1] physical medium,[2] program or a service which stores the public and/or private keys[3] for cryptocurrency transactions. In addition to this basic function of storing the keys, a cryptocurrency wallet more often also offers the functionality of encrypting and/or signing information. Signing can for example result in executing a smart contract, a cryptocurrency transaction (see "bitcoin transaction" image), identification or legally signing a 'document' (see "application form" image). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptocurrency_wallet
MetaMask is a software crypto wallet used to interact with the Ethereum blockchain.[1][2] It allows users to access their Ethereum wallet through a browser extension or mobile app, which can then be used to interact with decentralized applications... MetaMask was created in 2016 by ConsenSys. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetaMask
Venture capitalist focusing on the Metaverse (2020-21)
WebAssembly (sometimes abbreviated Wasm) is an open standard that defines a portable binary-code format for executable programs, and a corresponding textual assembly language, as well as interfaces for facilitating interactions between such programs and their host environment.[2][3][4][5] The main goal of WebAssembly is to enable high-performance applications on web pages, but the format is designed to be executed and integrated in other environments as well, including standalone ones. WebAssembly (i.e. WebAssembly Core Specification (then version 1.0, 1.1 is in draft[9]) and WebAssembly JavaScript Interface[10]) became a World Wide Web Consortium recommendation on 5 December 2019,[11] alongside HTML, CSS, and JavaScript... In November 2017, Mozilla declared support "in all major web browsers",[39] after WebAssembly was enabled by default in Edge 16.[40] The support includes mobile web browsers for iOS and Android. As of July 2021, 94% of installed browsers support WebAssembly... WebAssembly is supported on desktops, and mobile, but on the latter, in practice (for non-small memory allocations, such as with Unity game engine) there are "grave limitations that make many applications infeasible to be reliably deployed on mobile browsers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebAssembly (more)
Matthew Ball: A Framework for the Metaverse. We need to think of the Metaverse as a sort of successor state to the mobile internet. (more)
What is EOS? An Intro to the Entrepreneurial Operating System. Traction touts the Entrepreneurial Operating System® (EOS®), and outlines six key business components: Vision, People, Data, Issues, Process and Traction®. To be successful, Gino Wickman contends, companies need to define and align these core components. (more)
Economy not constrained by physical goods. Could be within a Virtual World, Computer Game, or elsewhere. (more)
An interesting thread on the Design of Virtual World Market Economy systems. Designing Virtual Worlds by Richard Bartle talks a bit about designing economies. I've only skimmed it, but it is a well regarded resource. Ted Castranova's Synthetic Worlds hits on many of these topics as well. As an economist, he has done some of the best work on understanding economies in virtual worlds.
Tinderbox is an app (http://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/) from East Gate. Used to be called Ceres. (more)
John Herrman: Are We in the Metaverse Yet? Crypto people say they’re building it. Gamers might already be living in it. The art world is cashing in on it. Web veterans are trying to save it. But what is it? (more)
Layer 1 vs Layer 2: Where’s the Next Block Party At? Several layer 2 solutions have been proposed for Ethereum, each with its own trade-offs. Plasma was an early solution enabling high-throughput payments but doesn’t support the smart contracts so vital to defi, nor do state or payment channel solutions similar to Bitcoin’s Lightning Network. (more)
Gavin Wood: WebAssembly Is the Future, EVM Is Right Now. The EVM is what enables Ethereum to run smart contracts, the innovation it’s known for popularizing (more)
This is the publicly-readable WikiLog Digital Garden (20k pages, starting from 2002) of Bill Seitz (a Product Manager and CTO). (You can get your own pair of garden/note-taking spaces from FluxGarden.)
My Calling: Reality Hacking to accelerate Evolution by increasing Freedom, Agency, and Leverage of Free Agents and smaller groups (SmallWorld) via D And D of Thinking Tools (software and Games To Play).
See Intro Page for space-related goals, status, etc.; or Wiki Node for more terse summary info.
Beware the War On The Net!
Current:
- head of product for an early-stage boot-strapped company
- founder FluxGarden for Digital Garden hosting
- wrote Hack Your Life With A Private Wiki Notebook Getting Things Done And Other Systems ASIN:B00HHJA5JS
My Coding for fun.
Past:
- Director Product Managment, NCSA Sports
- CTO/Product Manager at a series of startups: MedScape, then Axiom Legal, then Living Independently, then DailyLit, then AEP...
- founded Family Financial Future, personal-financial-planning nagware for parents
- consulting
- founded Teamflux.com, a hosting service for wiki-based collaboration spaces.
- founded Wikilogs.com, a hosting service for WikiLog-s (wiki-based weblogs).
Agile Product Development, Product Management from MVP to Product-Market Fit, Adding Product To Your Startup Team, Agility, Context, and Team Agency, (2022-10-12) Accidental Learnings of a Journeyman Product Manager
Big Levers, Theory of Change, Change the World, (2020-06-27) Ways To Nudge Future; Network Enlightenment, Optimistic Near Future Vision; Huge Invention; Alternatives To A College Degree; Credit Crisis 2008; Economic Transition; Network Economy; Making A Living; Varieties Of Info Technology Jobs; Generative Schooling; Product Oriented Unschooling; Reality Hacker; A 20th Century Economic Theory
FluxGarden; Network Enlightenment Ecosystem; ThinkingTools Interaction as Medium; Hypermedia Pattern Language; Everyone Needs Their Own ThinkingSpace; Digital Garden; Virtual ThinkingSpace; Thinking Tools Companies; Webs Of Thinkers And Thoughts; My CollaborationWare History; Wiki Proliferation; Portal Collaboration Roadmap; Wiki For GroupWare, Overlapping Scopes Of Collaboration, Email Discussion Beside Wiki, Wiki For CollaborationWare, Collaboration Roadmap; Sister Sites; Wiki Hack
Personal Cloud; 2018-11-29-NextOpenInfrastructure, 2018-11-15-BooksVsTweets; Stream/Flow Vs Garden/Stock
Social Warrens; Culture War; 2017-02-15-MindmapCultureWarSocialMediaEconomy; Cultural Pluralism
Fractally Generative Pattern Language, Small Tribe, SimplestThing, Becoming A Reality Hacker, Less-Bullshit Living, The Craft; Games To Play; Evolution, Hack Your Life With A Private Wiki Notebook, Getting Things Done, And Other Systems
Digital Therapeutics, (2021-05-26) Pondering a Mental Health space, CoachBot; Inside-Out Markov Chain