[PRE-ANN] Synereo: A fully decentralized social network owned by you

[zxbball]

look at twister,it's great,but no monetization model

[bitdwarf]

Posting to watch.

[spud3861]

Looking good.

[erwin45]

Its not often I'm impressed by anything...especially stuff/projects announced on here.....

I'm impressed.

If this is the real deal, well done!!

Not convinced on the model of AMP's, but from a social engineering and tech side, looks great!

I'll be keeping my eye on it

agree im impressed, watching this closely

[McAndy]

Hi
Dor told me to say hello, so here I am

I also want to elaborate upon a very important concept that may have gone missing in that huge blob of text.
It's not one that makes Synereo awesome from a technical or benefit-for-society perspective, but the one that enables Synereo to become a mainstream platform.

It is our job to make the B2B aspect of Synereo work. Businesses and advertisers are the ones that give AMPs their value.
Our attention is worth a lot of money. And it's being sold to the highest bidder (literally, just google RTBhttp://lmgtfy.com/?q=rtb) without any of the users seeing a dime.
With Synereo's model, we simply remove the eventual beneficiary (publicly traded corporations collecting the revenue generated by advertising) and redistribute it to the users.
This has benefits both businesses and users - just think of the advantages of having advertising money funnelled directly to the target audience. And it's a heaven for non-profits as well, since everyone in the system have AMPs to spend and pay for the distribution of content they care about.

Btw, Dor just finished hosting a panel at Bitcoin TLV with  David Johnston(MasterCoin), Vitalik Buterin (Etherium), Stas Oskin(Counterparty) and others. He will be at the conference all day today and tomorrow - you are more than welcome to walk up and to talk to him with any questions or ideas you may have.

You can also talk to the team & get updates via http://www.facebook.com/synereo and http://www.twitter.com/synereo (yes yes ironic, we know)


Nd

[Zombier0]

Very interesting

[kamronk]

I didn't see the current bounties being offered, will they be up soon? Or possibly are they being held back until the pre-sale is over?

[Bungeebones]

Very interesting. The privacy and the retention of ownership by the content providers are the two goals I like best. I've been working those same concepts within a web directory system but I have some reservations about whether you need your own alt coin though. You may have it right but I haven't seen the light on that aspect. I'm really interested in how it turns out.

So far I've opted for a "pseudo alt coin", instead, that acts like an alt coin within my own system but lacks the transferability of it's own distributed block chain. In other words, it's not totally trustless, nor decentralized YET (but I am heading that way). In response to the decentralizing purists and in perfect agreement of getting as un-hooked from those privacy pimps as we can I borrow a sales concept from some distant sales experience I've had that uses the idea of reducing something "to the ridiculous" to make a point. The idea of my "pseudo coin" is that you only use it for storing small amounts. Don't store up your life savings in it but, instead, quickly get it all the hell out of the system as quickly as possible. Think of it like a Starbucks gift card. You want it for convenience and a little cost savings, that's it. SO I just pegged it to Bitcoin. You can buy in with Bitcoin and you cash out your earnings as Bitcoin but, again, don't let the earnings accumulate or you are doing so at your own risk.

What constitutes the right amount to leave in such a system? Depends on usage right? There were times when I've had a balance remain unredeemed on a Starbucks card for a long time without sweating it because I knew I would get there eventually and then, again, there were times when I was using Starbucks as my office where I was running through the balance a lot quicker.

I am not much of a social butterfly/network person and Facebook never really appealed much to me but I like what you are doing here.

[windpath]

Interesting stuff...

[lolilo]

Looks very nice. Following.

[comando]

This looks very nice. I will follow this thread . btw, did you guys get the logo from F5designStudio?

http://www.f5designstudio.com/#!Synereo/zoom/cbzl/image1mty

[McAndy]

This looks very nice. I will follow this thread . btw, did you guys get the logo from F5designStudio?

http://www.f5designstudio.com/#!Synereo/zoom/cbzl/image1mty

Yeah
We had quite a few iterations, eventually one of their F5's designers helped us create the logo and the visual language used in all Synereo symbols you see now.

Nd

[mishax1]

So your idea is based on the network to function on advertisement, but you miss one huge point, users don't want advertisement. 

How can you call it decentralized and advertise on it at the same time ?

[windpath]

So your idea is based on the network to function on advertisement, but you miss one huge point, users don't want advertisement. 

How can you call it decentralized and advertise on it at the same time ?

From what I have read, the model suggests paying the USER for their attention. I imagine lots of people would be interested in seeing the ads if they are compensated for their time...

[Elokane]

So your idea is based on the network to function on advertisement, but you miss one huge point, users don't want advertisement. 

How can you call it decentralized and advertise on it at the same time ?

From what I have read, the model suggests paying the USER for their attention. I imagine lots of people would be interested in seeing the ads if they are compensated for their time...

... especially if those advertisements are actually interesting to them, as they were pertinent to their fields of interest; to "areas" on the network they've paid much attention to.

[McAndy]

Hi
Just wanted to let you know that you can now follow our progress (as well as read posts by various team members) at http://blog.synereo.com/.

Since taking the project public we've been working on expanding the team and continuing Synereo's development while taking into account the barrage of feedback we receive in the process. Seriously, feedback is important. We want to hear your wants, the do-not-wants and just ideas, things that you consider to be overlooked in both existing social networks and Synereo's specs.


Nd

[xxxgoodgirls]

interesting, watching!

[litecoin111]

When is IPO?

[KrLos]

Interested...

Let's see how this project evolves.

[Valzador]

Great, informative post.

Watching this to see how this goes