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A Grand Central Value Game
Few people realize that there is nothing new about the Social Graph. Facebook did not invent it – in fact, Graph Theory is a branch of discrete mathematics that was first developed back in the 1700’s...
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The Mashup of Gamification and Collaborative Consumption
I found an interesting article by Kim Gaskins at Sharable.net titled: Where the Game Layer Really Counts: Sharing & Peer Communities. I sensed some resigned frustration from her as she reflected...
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Collaborative Consumption Is Here To Stay
There is a persistent myth that a “financial deficit” is looming to destroy all that fall in it’s wrath. The only deficit is the inability for Money – as we know it – to articulate the value that is...
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Data: The Ultimate Shared Asset
People always ask me how The Value Game will work and how The Value Game will scale, and how The Value Game will make money. These are great questions, albeit straight from the b-school crib sheet;...
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Are We Hard Wired?
Hardwired Control Matrix It has been a challenging month at Social Flights. Our soft launch story was broken by FAST COMPANY, then it was quickly picked up by THE NEW YORK TIMES, BLOOMBERG TV,...
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The Art and Science of Social Sudoku
It’s been a few months since Social Flights entered the market with our February 28th Soft Launch. Since then we have grown at an amazing rate after getting picked up by a series of important news...
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The Human Infrastructure Game
Social media is emerging as a tool that may replace corporate and physical infrastructure of market capitalism. Social Flights is attempting to sort and match people, airplanes, and destinations with...
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Ideas Are The New Currency
‘Tis the season for “The Year In Pictures” – the annual new year pictorial accounting of the events of the outgoing year. Any rational collection for 2011 would include three events; Arab Spring, The...
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The Reality Platform
Today, we do not have a financial problem as much as we have a value problem. The challenges that face our civilization are far too great to be solved on an “Advertising” platform. Whatever happens...
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A Value Game For The Aerobics Instructor
In yesterday’s post, we outlined The Value Game for University Outreach where the graduate was the shared asset and the school administration, the alumni association, the entrepreneurial community, and...
View ArticleThe Social Value Index
The future of money will likely arise from entrepreneurs influencing the social value index with thousands of new business models rather than with some new currency. The ratio between financial...
View ArticleReverse Economics And True Value Social Games
With a high velocity and frictionless payment processing system, the economy should be able to operate in "reverse" just as easily - if not better than - it operates in so-called "forward". Here is...
View ArticleA New Generation of Social Business Methods
A huge amount of anti-social friction is imposed on the consumer in the name of convenience. When combined, these two technologies can vastly reduce the frictions of electronic commerce, reduce...
View ArticleSocial Value is Social Enterprise
The fastest way to unleash the extraordinary value that is contained in communities of experienced, talented, and motivated people is to provide a substrate for them to trade their knowledge assets...
View ArticleSymbionomics And The Space Between Things
Each stage of economic development in human history was derived from the prior stage by integrating the tools developed in that prior stage; The agrarian era, the scientific revolution, the industrial...
View ArticleSocial Stock Exchange
All coupons from all vendors can go into an exchange pool much like a Bond Market rated on a "social value score" and trading at a par value dependent on market forces. The difference is that Value...
View ArticleSocial Currency Derivatives Trading
It is not surprising that social currency will become a hedge instrument for financial currency in markets. After all, nothing economic can happen until people get together to build something. Nothing...
View ArticleWho Needs Anti-Social Travel?
The objective if this venture is to match a fleet of 15,000 private jets to social media networks tribes for efficient door-to-door travel. The start-up is largely founded on the premise that a dismal...
View ArticleFungible Coupons And Collaborative Production
By limiting the number of coupons precisely to the amount of inventory that is subject to liquidation, the coupon becomes a fungible instrument. If the supply is limited, then people will trade the...
View ArticleThe “New Value” Integration Begins
The game starts and ends with money, but all the "New Value" is created inside the game and denominated in social currencies. Entrepreneurs will game the game, the planes will get bigger, the coupons...
View ArticleIdeas Travel Where People Travel
Travel technologies and applications are being sold for incredible sums of money. Every airline merger is big news and every geolocation application is huge business. Travel data is a lightening rod...
View ArticleCrowdsourcing The Brokerage House
Social Flights creates a valuable and unique form of business intelligence defining how much value, in dollars, that people place on their time. This results in a conversion factor between social...
View ArticleThe Value Game Cracks the Monetization Paradox
The Value Game is becoming increasingly generalized as more entrepreneurs seek to learn how to apply it to new economic realities. The first company to launch is Social Flights. Quickly funded, in full...
View ArticleHow To Play The Value Game
The Value Game is a new class of business methods that converts financial currency into social currency and vice versa. The benefits of the Value Game are innumerable since social currency is the...
View ArticleThe Value Game Plays The Valley Game
The Value Game is a new class of business methods designed to specifically create social value. The rules of the Value Game are very simple. The Game Starts and Ends with money but all of the new value...
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