IPFS was created by Juan Benet, who later founded Protocol Labs in May 2014.[4][9] According to its website and that of the World Economic Forum, Protocol Labs is "an open-source research, development, and deployment laboratory for blockchain technology" that "creates software systems that tackle significant challenges" and whose goal is to "make human existence orders of magnitude better through technology."[9][10] Protocol Lab's projects include IPFS, Filecoin, libp2p, Multiformats, IPLD, and SourceCred. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterPlanetary_File_System#Protocol_Labs (more)

see (2020-06-27) Ways To Nudge Future

Friends with Benefits is the ultimate cultural membership powered by a community of our favorite Web3 artists, operators, and thinkers bound together by shared values and shared incentives ($FWB). To join FWB, you must hold $FWB cryptocurrency tokens. This means that everyone in the community is literally invested in the community’s success and gets to participate in the upside of the value we create together. https://www.fwb.help/ (more)

The Optimistic DAO: Aragon Govern + Aragon Voice + Aragon Court. Over the last few months, we have been working hard to rationalize Aragon into a complete open-stack solution that takes advantage of the low fees and frictionless DAO management offered by Optimistic Governance. (more)

see Friends with Benefits

Vinay Gupta: Can the World Computer Save the World? Part 1: Wicked Problems. We all know the world is burning (climate change). (more)

blockchain version of Global Brain?

key Greenhouse Gas, Carbon Emissions, CO2)

Uniform Resource Locator (more)

FWB Season Three: Creative Cooperation. Friends with Benefits has become the web3 home for the creative class. Bound together by shared values and shared incentives ($FWB), Friends with Benefits started as a private Discord server populated by our favorite creatives and has since evolved into a global community. (more)

Drew Coffman: CRYPTOPILLED. At the beginning of this year I knew next to nothing about the world of web3 or crypto. Six months later, I quit my job to take a full-time position in the industry. (more)

Future #54: Where we don’t talk about the metaverse. (more)

John Hanke: The Metaverse is a Dystopian Nightmare. Let’s Build a Better Reality. As a society, we can hope that the world doesn’t devolve into the kind of place that drives sci-fi heroes to escape into a virtual one — or we can work to make sure that doesn’t happen. At Niantic, we choose the latter. We believe we can use technology to lean into the ‘reality’ of augmented reality — encouraging everyone, ourselves included, to stand up, walk outside, and connect with people and the world around us. (more)

lie says tabs killed the Web. Look to the past to know what the genesis did correctly, and find what modern web browsers are doing wrong. (more)

DAO creation stack https://aragon.org/ (more)

Some companies make money from Advertising via Spam Email (UCE - Unsolicited Commercial Email). (more)

see Dark Agile - Scrum is the biggest/worst source of this.

15 Ways the World is being Transformed by DAOs. It’s difficult to understand just how revolutionary Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) are unless you’ve attempted to navigate financial regulation, set up a payroll or establish a charity. (more)

Aragon Acquires Voting Project Vocdoni to Flesh Out Decentralized Governance Stack. Aragon Association, the stewards of a protocol that makes for the easy creation of decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), has announced its acquisition of voting project Vocdoni from Estonia-based Dvote Labs Oü. (more)

'Decentralized Court' Aragon Hit With Flurry of Resignations. Twelve staffers involved in the Aragon Network announced their resignations Thursday because of its apparent lack of financial transparency. (more)