WikiNomicsOnTrailfire
This is an OpenLetter to the founders of Trailfire.com with notification to the
- CEO of Aboutus.org: G RayKing
- CTO of Aboutus.org: G WardCunningham
Dear John O'Halloran, CEO
Dear Pat Ferrel, CTO
your excellent SocialSoftware, which I use and recommend in different wikis, since years, the friendly community spirit here and on your site and beyond that: several other factors encourage me, to write this public letter.
Other factors:
- the rise of G WikiNomics, G OpenBusiness and the fledgeling G ExtremeOpenBusiness
- the successful wiki project of Aboutus to make an editable catalog of all Websites, establishing friendly synergies by and with friendly connectors.
- the literature of e.g.
- [Grown up Digital] by Tapscott}} , the author of the bestseller Wikinomics How mass collaboration changes everthing.
and
- 2.0 a Strategy Guide by Amy Shuen G Web 2.0 a Strategy Guide by Amy Shuen, which stresses the importance of fostering Webcommunities and how this is done. E.g. He
puts the focus on communities like Facebook with: ".. Facebook is promising economic freedom - third party applications can run adds and sell goods and services to their hearts' content .."
- a World Without Poverty by Mohammad Yunus G Creating a World Without Poverty by Mohammad Yunus successful founder of the G GrameenFoundation, "Bank of the Poor", which earned him the nobel prize. In his book he advocates, that kids should learn how to become entrepreneurs.
- and many others
- the 200 million kids of the G OLPC.org project who will get the resources to catch up with digital standards, and for which we are preparing a G PennyBank.biz
- the study of your investor links
- Our G SocialDomaining project, which aims at the 200 million OLPC-kids
- the innovative free Paypal Storefront widget, which is allowed to be embedded in blogs and community sites, like MySpace, later in FaceBook and many others .. and of course on each site, where the owner can control their own HTML.
- my own observations of successful and less successful community strategies, discussed in the specialized MeatballWiki community
- and now the from me discovered capability of G TrailMarks to embed not only YouTube widgets but also the free Storefront G Paypal Storefront.
As you write in your license terms, that only non-commercial use is allowed, many potential users may be deterred from your otherwise excellent SocialSoftware. This may reduce the chances for Firetrail to really get the broad user base that it deserves and so encouraging other software developers to offer a similar product but with more community friendly licensing as e.g. Google.com,Youtube.com
So I ask you in the name of zillions of possible users, please allow us (at least) a pilot-project of OpenBusiness to use Trailfire for WikiNomics oriented commercial use.
On the page http://www.aboutus.org/WikiNomicsOnTrailfire I have prepared a a screenshot and not yet functionally enabled Trailmark to "get the picture".
If you give green light, we can immediately start with a transaction of initial symbolic 100US$, which G RayKing the CEO of Aboutus.org has pledged.
I make a copy of my feedback in your suggestionbox at in form of this public letter on [[1]], where all links are conveniently resolved.
If you answer here, this helps very much, because it documents your decision. You can have a good feeling, because vandalism here is rare, due to:
- password-protected membership
- a complete version history
- a big enough staff of patrouilling protectors.
Your answer at your earliest convenience would make the author very happy, because he and the staff member MarkDilley has anything prepared to start this venture.
All the best fridemar 16:59, 31 May 2009 (PDT)
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