Look for activity at over at MusicMobileGlobal.com during the next few months. More on that, and a whole lot more on music in general, are coming soon here as well.
http://www.ratemycop.com/
I am a strong advocate for this site. I have seen police act outside their duty to protect and serve on innumerable occasions.
Being an economist, I understand incentives and human nature. If the risk of punishment for defecting from their civil duties is low – with the benefit being high – it makes logical sense that officers will defect.
This could keep the officers more honest and maybe even improve some of their demeanors. I’ve seen police officers abuse their authoritative power one too many times!
Although I understand the concern that misinformation may arrise (if a cop gives someone a ticket or inconveniences them personally enough to warrant that individual’s condemnation – this person could make up information), I still think that profiles which show patterned adverse behavior can be used to supplement complaints that have not been fully investigated by internal affairs.
Overall, this is a very good thing for freedom. This is the internet age where information is instantaneously available – age old institutions need to adapt and QUIT trying to exist externally.
America should be the premier nation ensuring freedom on the internet. It’s impractical for government to believe it can control information flow the way it was able in the past. There are too many mediums of transfer currently available.
Get Real.
I posted this on Fred Wilson’s blog about 2 weeks ago before I went to Europe. His topic was discussing free web models.
I made the assumption that users were a cost of input just like factory workers since in web 2.0 sites the users add a large portion of the value (or at least keep the site functional).
Y-axis: value of service (insert your marketing effort here)
X-axis: trade off between ‘rent on privacy’ and ‘$ cost of service’ (i used a percent scale since I didn’t fully figure out a way to have them expressed in the same unit)
The constraint I called the convenience rate, which then allowed for different indifference curves to be drawn tangent to it depending on user preferences.
The multiple business models on the web would fit in between the x-axis scale.
The model is basic and there’s a lot more I can flesh out, but that’s because it’s still in infancy; for a poor reason.
Unfortunately, my proposal was turned down. My professor told me to try another topic he knew more about – like sports betting.
I’ll scan in a picture for the model soon.
So I looked at my facebook profile and realized I was now from Long Island, AL. I scrolled down and noticed the rest of my profile was intact – it wasn’t one of my hysterical friends.
I had Long Island, NY listed as my hometown – it’s a geographic location which I felt provided more insight about where I come from rather than having Franklin Square.
Now facebook forces you to pick from a predefined list. I can no longer be from Long Island, NY.
They may be trying to index users off their hometowns to leverage a discovery device. Time will tell.
*** Edit: Here are comments I made.
I was thinking that by indexing hometowns they could use it as a way to leverage their data.
If all parts of a profile could be cross section analyzed there would be tremendous potential for discovery of “friends you never knew you had… or services you never knew you would enjoy…”
However, I doubt they could appropriately cross section the whole profile to create substantial leverage until the semantic web has advanced further along.
The hometown thing could just be as simple as cutting out classmates.com. There’s several ways to go with it.
an example of discovery would be:
as mobile progresses – it could introduce you to people from your hometown who live near by and engage in similar tasks.
Information and disinformation are readily available all over the internet. I truly believe that access to all information as a collective should be free. However, it’s the provided focus that should and needs to be monetized – these models will offer the greatest competitive advantage.
There are multiple ways to monetize the focus of information – providing a platform for educational vehicles that gives them incentive to provide a specific focus in an organized format is a winner.
Remember, it’s not what you know, it’s what you consider. That’s the recipe for successful decision making.
