Our team is as small as can be.

Scott has a degree in Computer Science, and has agreed to be our janitor and CEO, until a new head of the company can be found.  He can code, but can't do it alone.  He needs help. He wants to be COO eventually, but until someone takes over as janitor, he will have to do everything. Scott is very busy generating income to pay his debts and support the company, so anyone who can help him in any way would be great. Scott is also kind of shy, which has led to difficulties for growing the team.

We are planning on taking the company on vacation to Burning Man 2012, where Scott will break out some of his dance moves: http://youtube.com/jazzmann71

If you want to join the team, you have to hold the following values at the core of your being.
Freedom, Fun, and Peace.
If this resonates with you please break the ice and say hello.

We don't have any money yet, so co-founder spots can be earned with some timely volunteer work.

If you like mantras here is ours: Question Everything

Cheers,
Scott
http://twitter.com/wizard_71
jazzann91@g-a-i-a.org
#believer
Express your positions on the topics you value most.
Peace
Family
Money
Laughs
Sex
Security
Freedom
Courage
Pride
Lust
Anger
Fear
An emotional
rating system. Giving you a  few more options than "like".
Secret
Enemy
Public
Enemy
Public
Anonymous
Public /
Coworkers
Friends
Family
All
No Secrets
Broadcast privacy levels.
Work
Answer
User
Culture
Language
Tag
Debate
Question
Are you bored with the thumbs-up utopia?
Peace
Joy
Acceptance

Love
Sadness
Welcome to
www.questioncollector.com
#thinker
#rebel
#jester
http://G-A-i-A.org
What do you think of             ?
 is it any fun?
ever play a social game like eRepublik or empireAvenue?
#witness
#king
#scribe
click play
If there was a really private & neutral ground to share our:
disagreements,
complaints,
politics, and
values
Would you spend time in a sandbox like that?
The Business
For anyone into object / webpage design. These are the root object / page types.
(some geekery required)
User roles based on how you participate.
Cost:
build debate arena
capture audience

Revenue:
brands & institutions subscribe to play
targeted advertising
users buy virtual goods or subscribe for no-adverts
<~ this is our game board/UI
notice how the colors align through the slides
Which do you most resonate with?
Life is political. It is also emotional.

Facebook offers us the "thumbs up" utopia, but really is that enough?

When a company, government, or other organization screws up, where do we go to complain?  What if we don't have the time to stand tall and get into their "handling" machine?  Our "leaders" are only listening to their friends, just like we all do.  Nobody likes a complainer.  Well, we're Nobody and we are here to share your complaint and value it above any corporate or government interest.

There is a gap between what humanity wants and what is being delivered.  We need some quality control and the news media seems to have become just another company.  Maybe this is why, John DeGoia (Georgetown U. President) wrote this article for the World Economic Forum detailing the gap between human values and institutional values.  Maybe not.  Either way his academic take on this problem is very thorough.  I didn't catch any solutions, let me know if you spot one in there. :-)
http://www.weforum.org/pdf/grs2010/report/1-Values-Framework.pdf
Problem
Team
Competition
My competitors include: Facebook, Twitter, and other social networks; Yahoo!Answers, Quora, and other answer focused providers; eRepublik, Zynga, and other social gaming companies; as well as, debate sites. I believe we are different from each of these competitors by combining key ideas from all four in a way that will bring our debates to a new level.

The following chart lists our conceptual product features against the competition.
First, social networks are great for connecting and sharing thoughts and media, but they provide a one way spew of information and create massive amounts of repeat data. We want people to connect around reusable content in a much more focused environment.

Second, answer focused providers are great at providing fact based information, but what about opinions and the questions that people identity with around “unanswerable” or debatable ideas. These competitors have the engines for what we want to accomplish, but have a very different vision of what their customers want. Quora is really cool.  I'm impressed with the technoligy they have built, but I think they are headed in a very different direction than us.

Third, social games are focused on creating entertainment value and are generally regarded by non-game players as a “waste of time”. eRepublik in particular has done a superb job of virtualizing ideas like newspapers, economies, and elections, but they have included many terrible ideas too. These include the division of the world into nations and military components, that are the game’s main driver. Thus they tend to encourage radical nationalism and a very immature form of competition. We want to divide people into virtual roles based on how they participate on the site; create collaborative competitive systems; and virtual elections based on who you know and agree with. Also, by dividing the virtual world into borderless colored kingdoms, rather than states, we hope to create a way for people to understand humanity as a whole and help encourage peace and free discussion across cultures.

Furthermore, privacy is a common issue to all of the competition and they tend to approach it haphazardly. Social networks have gotten a handle on private and public sharing, but lack a way for anonymity (Quora has some anonymous features).  We have an advanced approach for allowing privacy and connection that no competitor I can find has implemented yet.
The Goal

Target Customer
Our initial target users are passionate people who would categorize themselves as a believer, thinker, rebel, or jester.  Checkout this post to see what we mean and let us know which one you are!

http://g-a-i-a.org/business/rebels-jesters-believers-thinkers

Our initial target subscribers are organizations that want to share the social value of their operations with an audience that shares their values.   If they have any detractors, we offer a way to deal with them.  We offer an arena in which they can maximise their reputation or face the fact that they might need to change, if they want the peoples' favor.
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Thanks for checking us out.
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