The following four questions illustrate something that is missing from the Internet.  If you can answer with one website for all of these, please tell me. I need to start using it ASAP!

Where do you go to fight for what you believe?
For what you think is true?
Where do you go to make fun of serious people?
What is the web address of the site you use to organize your rebellion?

Life is political. It is also emotional. It's filled with laughs and sorrow.  Lust, joy, fear, love, and many more.

Facebook and others offer us the "thumbs up" utopia, but really is that enough?

When a company, government, or other organization screws up where do I go to complain? What if I 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 I'm nobody and I'm hear to take your complaint and honor it.

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. Pres.) 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
Solution
Team
Marketing
Projections
Customer
Status
Competition
Clay Shirky shows us that culture takes a while to come up with quality control mechanisms for new media. Checkout his article at the Wall Street Journal:http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704025304575284973472694334.html

Out solution is a grand arena of debate.  Will you fight? or watch? or referee? What questions will you follow? What answers will you vote for?  In this arena the question is sacrosanct.  The power is in the people's hands and our emotional colors will shine.

If you are familiar with Quora.com they have the basic question engine I want to build.  No duplicate questions, ranked answers, and the social network.  They are trying to be a hub of factual knowledge.  We want to be a hub of opinion.

So what makes this forum different from any other?
A ranking and categorization system that is centered around emotions/values.
A privacy system that makes it easy to participate in the way you desire.
Game mechanics that drive quailty control. Do jobs, earn experience/virtual coin.
Ten different user roles to participate and advance in.

Sound complicated? Perhaps, but we thrive on complexity and are positive we can build it.  Once we have traction, we want to add hierarchies, elections, and a theme engine to advance into other demographics. That's when the fun will really start.

How do we tie it together, so it makes sense? Geometry and color.
Our team is non-existent.

Our founder Scott Lewis is looking for two people with guts to form the triangle of power.  One person who likes the phone, and persuading people to part with their investment money and a coding lead to make infrastructure choices, take leadership of code production, and whip Scott to complete his pieces.

Scott has a degree in Computer Science and is in charge of operations, design, and is a very supportive and creative individual.  He is the utility guy.  He can code, but enjoys database and design work more.  He does what no one else will to make everything happen.  Scott wants to build one thing that makes the world, a lot, more peaceful for everyone.  He's willing to embarass himself and put all his crazy skills at the disposal of this compnay.  Check out his dance moves here:http://youtube.com/jazzmann71

He's also a nut and has been know to say ridiculous things, but he has found his reason for being on this backwards planet and is committed to it’s success, even if it takes him 50 years.  “My exit strategy is death” ~ http://g-a-i-a.org/journal/quoted-thinking

Our design principles are to mirror nature, and make it fun.

Our business principles are to be honest, and direct.

Our marketing principles are to tell a story and infuse it into every aspect of what we do.

PEACE!

http://twitter.com/wizard_71
jazzann91@g-a-i-a.org
Model
After one of Scott's first personal projects was a huge marketing failure, he became very interested in improving in this area.http://g-a-i-a.org/inspiration/my-failures-inspirational

As we've mentioned, we are interested in layering stories into both the company culture, the product, and even our lives.  We want the user to feel like they are participating in a story too, one where they control their character.  We've been following @getstoried who is a great resource for weaving story into business. http://getstoried.com We hope to reveal more of how this works as more lead characters enter and add their story to the mix. We need a CEO/CFO: http://g-a-i-a.org/team/leaders

We've seeded our marketing plan with online dance videos.  As gratitude for music that has moved him Scott has begun to put his amateur dance talent to use.  Checkout this post about his inspiration: http://g-a-i-a.org/journal/shpongolese-spoken

Also, follow us on fb at: http://facebook.com/pages/Golden-Age-Information-Architects/226206111822
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.
I'm fishing for a big fish. Here is the modest, yet ridiculous bait.
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.
Present:
Seeking friends and a seed investment.
Prototype in design.

Jan 2011: Little progress, but vision remains strong.
Oct 2010: Job secured, cofounders working part-time.
Sept 2010: Networking, joined local meetups
Aug 2010: Work search up a notch (so broke), reworking plans.
July 2010: Incorporated! Thanks @markjlongo
June 2010: Regrouped, began work on prototype
May 2010: Failed to quality NVBC, but learned a lot.
Apr 2010: Attended ACETECH Market Entry Program
Mar 2010: Weekly business seminars, worked on business plan
Feb 2010: Entered NewVenturesBC competition (got dumped by my life partner) :-(
Jan 2010: Diagrams creation period, use cases, feature lists, etc.
Dec 2009: Registered business name, explored idea with colleagues.
Nov 2009: Inspired at the Island Tech Conference.
Oct 2009: Domains reserved, began blogging.
Sept 2009: Layoff leads to time to pursue my ideas.
May 2009: Idea documentation and data modeling begins.
Aug 2006: had idea similar to facebook, started using facebook.

We've been mentored some by these two:
Marco Guardigli @mgua
Mark Payne @MapMove

For more checkout http://g-a-i-a.org/team/advisers
QuestionCollector
http://g-a-i-a.org
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.