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Context: this fellow (Oli Frost) is something of a social media satirist, having previously built LifeFaker (http://lifefaker.com/ http://lifefaker.com/, a plac
by nneonneo 8y ago
Context: this fellow (Oli Frost) is something of a social media satirist, having previously built LifeFaker (http://lifefaker.com/ http://lifefaker.com/, a place to buy your way to Instagram fame), and Flopstarter (http://flopstarter.com/ http://flopstarter.com/, a Kickstarter clone for terrible ideas).
I found the latest idea pretty funny - actually trying to monetize your data instead of letting companies do it for you is kind of a cute turnabout. In any case, please do view this project as an artistic endeavour - a work of satire.
- saintPirelli 8y agoI wish he had an RSS feed.
- olifrost 8y agohttp://olifro.st/feed.xml http://olifro.st/feed.xml
- saintPirelli 8y agoCheers!
- B1FF_PSUVM 8y ago> instead of letting companies do it for you Yay, it's 1999, and disintermediation is the word. P.S. https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=disintermediation&year_start=1900&year_end=2018&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cdisintermediation%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=disintermediat...
- zehnfischer 8y agoI think it's real data about is actual life though. Kinda blurrs the line
- rdiddly 8y agolifefaker - That one was like staring point blank down the throat of a beast that eats human futility and status-jockeying, and in the darkened distance you can faintly hear the tortured howling of a million lost souls... in other words, mission accomplished!
- X6S1x6Okd1st 8y agoThere are a couple companies that are working in that space: https://datacoup.com/ https://datacoup.com/ https://datawallet.com/#protect https://datawallet.com/#protect A more detailed reddit thread about them: https://www.reddit.com/r/beermoney/comments/8btjah/16_passive_data_collection_apps_comparison_make/ https://www.reddit.com/r/beermoney/comments/8btjah/16_passiv...
- milbow 8y agoI am quite interested in the BAT (Basic Attention Token) project. Using the Brave browser you can either block ads normally or choose to view Brave ads, and the difference with Brave ads is that the viewer gets paid--- in tokens, that is. They can then use the accumulated BAT tokens to send micropayments to platforms and content that they like or peruse frequently. Pretty cool incentive system. And Brave is a really nice browser, at least for mobile.
- tomrod 8y agoI use the brave browser in mobile but have everything blocked. Where can I learn more depth about this?
- supreme_sublime 8y agoYeah, but it begs the question, why would anyone want BAT tokens?
- milbow 8y agoAFAIK, you can't even withdraw the tokens currently. The idea being, you use the BAT tokens to send micropayments to your favorite sites, and then they can do plenty of things--- re-use that BAT to advertise, cash it out via fiat gateway, etc.
- ianai 8y agoSo maybe in the future we accept payment upfront for our privacy or through incideously free services.
- rb808 8y agolol this is great http://flopstarter.com/1dprinter/ http://flopstarter.com/1dprinter/
- jonathanstrange 8y agoIf you could print very light lines and the costs were very low, I'd be interested. As someone who works a lot with handwritten formulas and pencil & paper sketches, I'm constantly annoyed by how strongly lines and squares are printed on paper. It's distracting and there is no need for it.
- ino 8y agoPrint in lighter shades of grey.
- amdavidson 8y agoAs someone who shares the same frustration with normal graph paper, check out a Rhodia Dot Pad.
- bmuon 8y agoJana is doing this by building a browser (mCent) that shows people ads in exchange for tokens that they can use to buy mobile data. It's becoming really popular in India. http://www.mcentbrowser.com/ http://www.mcentbrowser.com/
- dmak 8y agoThis concept is being talked about a lot in crypto area. Bringing data back into the control of the user and providing ways for them to monetize it.
- sytelus 8y agoThis is not a satire. I can easily see a service where people can simple upload their FB data and the service bundles it up in to groups of 10,000 for sell, takes 30% cut and distributes rest of the proceeds. There are tons of folks who have most of their posts public on FB would be willing to do this. There are companies who wants to model users, train/test algorithms would be willing to pay for it.
- Mononokay 8y agoIt's...still satire.
- majewsky 8y agoPoe's law applies.
- blackoil 8y agoHow will it be verified if profile is real or fake?
- John_KZ 8y agoThis is a major problem. There's no guarantee the data is real, and most of the people who have to sell their old data clearly don't have much buying power regardless. But, imagine if they were selling a real-time feed of what they're actually browsing. Imagine if authenticity verification was possible by closed software and hardware (totally not pointing android here). Then the data would definitely be worth something. And the more "clients" you have, the more they're worth.
- blanche_ 8y agoI think you could easily train machine learning algorithm to do that.
- igolden 8y agoLifeFaker cracked me up - thanks for sharing. "Being able to pretend I rode an elephant in Thailand really helped my confidence"