2 weeks, 2 days ago

Hey Gord, Everyone,



The new Berryit is in the works. Stay tuned.

2 weeks, 3 days ago

Hello Gordon,



I use 3.0.1. We are working on a 2.0 version also. Sorry, that's something we need to put on the site.



As to the location of the toolbar, we need to be able to move it. Mine does the same thing (horizontal bar). I'll put that on the to do list.



Berrying sites without a toolbar? It is possible to do that and we could implement it, but you only get the benefit of seeing the Berryit icon (berried sites) when you have the toolbar installed.



I'm working on some better copy for the site to better explain what its all about. I'm torn between going after the techies that want a cleaner web and the rebels who would want to join forces to Berry the Exxon Corp's website out of existence. Maybe the two could co-habitate.



Thanks for the input, if its ok I'll post here with updates. I know there are a lot of people who miss this place and still come back often.

2 weeks, 3 days ago

On August 15, 2008, 7:57 am interviewables said:

Right now what happens once you download and install the toolbar for Firefox is you will be able to join a group. When you join the group you can then Berry a site by clicking the Berryit toolbar icon on the toolbar and make a comment.

Jay,



I'm running Firefox 2.0.0.16 and its not working for me.



What's your personal browser / OS set up?



And there's no general forum for discussion of BerryIt itself on your site (as opposed to the specific groups). So let us know if this CH thread is where you want us to be figuring this out.



For sure, once you've identified what versions of Firefox it works with, document it on your site so not everyone is trying to install it on Firefox 3 (if that's why its not working for some).



And it looks like the toolbar takes up a whole horizontal stretch across the screen. Is it me arranging stuff wrong? Can I make it move to the right or left of an already existing toolbar so I don't waste my precious vertical space?



Good to see this moving forward, wonder what will happen once you start building a meaty DB of bad site info.



-g

2 weeks, 6 days ago

One thing I want to ask about: How to Berry sites whitout the Add-on?



(Is it possible at all? It doesn't look like it...)





P.S. The Add-on isn't working for me [FireFox 3.0.1]

2 weeks, 6 days ago

I joined the website, it looks good; all I want now is an Opera plug-in...

2 weeks, 6 days ago

Hello everyone! Berryit.com is now online and we're looking for a few testers. The site is in its infancy so please excuse the look and feel. Pavel has been working hard to get the Firefox extension working. So, check it out, Berry a few sites and let us know how we could improve.



Right now what happens once you download and install the toolbar for Firefox is you will be able to join a group. When you join the group you can then Berry a site by clicking the Berryit toolbar icon on the toolbar and make a comment. The next time you do a search you will see a berryit icon (a small strawberry) beside the search result in Google that tells you that site has been berried. Others who have joined that group will see the same icon in their search result.



We're still debating what to do next but so far it works pretty well.



Thanks for the help.



Jay (Interviewables)

3 weeks, 2 days ago

On August 7, 2008, 8:42 pm Niemer said:

does anyone??

Hey Niemer,



If you want to head over to VenCorps, that's where the startup activity is taking place...



http://www.vencorps.com/join/chmember/' target='_blank'>http://www.vencorps.com/join/chmember/



It is private so you need your CH credentials to get in.



Let me know if you have any trouble getting in to VenCorps.



And, sadly, I don't know anything about making clothes.



Take care,

-Gord

3 weeks, 2 days ago

i do.....

4 weeks ago

does anyone??

3 weeks, 4 days ago

CH is 'dead'.



About: [Link]



The 'new' CH is http://www.VenCorps.com' target='_blank'>http://www.VenCorps.com

3 weeks, 4 days ago

Hello there, folks behind this forum



I just found this forum and found it a good idea to post business- and development ideas together for commenting.



However, on the first glance the forum looks too chaotic and it is really difficult and slow to browse the ideas.



Development idea:

let me see all the ideas in one long roll. Show the title and short description of each idea, then allow to click each interesting idea for more information. Allow also copy paste for archiving the ideas for later reading / analysis.



Anyway: If I had a good business idea to use by myself, I wouldn't post it here. But if I just need some service not available, I would post the requirements here.



p.s. feedback would be allowed without registration. I don't like to registrate different odd services.

1 month ago

on vencorps

1 month ago

I have yet, to hear from him in weeks. Anyone know where Will is?

1 month, 1 week ago

I do not get that post. What was the point of it?

1 month, 1 week ago

On July 25, 2008, 4:47 am sileaster said:

Beijing, as the capital of china, is well-known all over the world, and people from all over the world gather here to study, do business, to work and to live. It has changed a lot during these years preparing for the Olympic Games. Echinacities introduces many aspects of Beijing, including the climate, the business, transport, culture, food, entertainment and the live there.

I see chinacities-dot-com was taken. We're hoping to limit this thriving discussion forum to talk about startups and crowdsourcing. So the only possible way you could position echinacities in our forums without seeming like a spammer, would be to highlight its interest to entrepreneurs.

1 month, 1 week ago

Beijing, as the capital of china, is well-known all over the world, and people from all over the world gather here to study, do business, to work and to live. It has changed a lot during these years preparing for the Olympic Games. Echinacities introduces many aspects of Beijing, including the climate, the business, transport, culture, food, entertainment and the live there.

1 month, 1 week ago

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3 months ago

Siddey, how's it all going?



I've looked at yahoo pipes before - It's more of a distributed platform but I guess if all of your standard functional libraries were implemented somewhere on the internet it would be getting close.



Popfly I haven't yet done much looking into. It does, however, appear to use Silverlight which is proprietary, and all functionality appears to be client-side.



I'm looking at more of an enterprise system that can be setup on your own server and used to design and develop your own web application (ala; Netbanking applications, mind mapping, etc...). Processing should be able to be set as either server or client side (depending upon requirements), with web standards used client side and either an existing open-source language (PHP for example) or a proprietary language used server side.



As with both Popfly & Yahoo Pipes, however, no programming should have to be done at all. However it should be possible to build your own independent enterprise web application with no reliances (stepping away from mashups here) on external sources.

3 months ago

Hey mate,



Do you mean something focused on visually aggregating miscellaneous online web services / APIs / screenscrapers as found on Yahoo pipes



OR



Something a little more developer focused, with a visual development environment for simplifying the prototyping of web UIs for mashups like Microsoft's Pop Fly?



OR



A little bit of both?

3 months ago

There are plenty of web scripting (and compiled) languages out there for designing enterprise web applications.

There have also been plenty of developments in WYSIWYG-style website development tools.



So... How about a visual programming language 'of sorts' for designing, developing & testing web applications?



Using an object orientated approach, this should make for quite an interesting system for many Web 2.0 business' and applications (rather than relying on more complex ruby on rails, PHP & .NET implementations). Think... of the functions as specific graphical modules, each connected to the next by a visual 'data pipeline'. Static Parameters for the function/module may be edited by clicking on the module and changing its preferences. Dynamic parameters may be input directly from other modules.



In effect you would be designing your application in a similar method to that seen in electrical circuit design. One other similar product would be Pipeline Pilot (by Scitegic) - a Scientific dataflow system that allows connection and sharing of multiple scientific applications (modelling, analysis, etc.)



In addition to the ease of design when developing in such a system (the entire project scope can be viewed visually whilst creating it), additional benefits could include:



- Visual debugging. Running the dataflow with a step at each function and input and output shown in windows.

- The tools for design and development could be also be web-based and stored on the same server allowing developmental access for any location

- Collaboration and version control could be streamlined, with the locking and unlocking of multiple modules. All project data could be stored in XML, with the individual modules being rendered/compiled prior to use in the published project. This would allow a set of tags to be created each time a new version was edited and rendered (along with corresponding rendered copies of each module)

- And oh so much more.



This idea would suit more of an open source project, contributed to by a number of Web 2.0 business' utilising the standard, together forming a consortium of sorts.



So... any ideas, opinions, criticisms, etc?

1 month, 1 week ago

Having just arrived (via a review of Don Tapscott's CH video) I am pleased to see several discussions that orbit around the idea of crowd-sourced opinions to drive viable solutions. Jay Deragon refers to them as 'Socialutions'.



I am determined to create a remedy as well. Perhaps the ASK4 concept has merit in this (and other?) conversations here - you decide, comment, whatever - gsbigger@yahoo.com

http://unettednation...rdpress.com/ask4_is/

and THANKS -

3 months, 3 weeks ago

On May 15, 2008, 12:52 pm interviewables said:But I still have to ask. What's in it for me? What do I get for coming to your site? Why would I donate?

My reasons for creating this site have to do with listening to news on a daily basis. I'm very much into politics. But, for my particular demographic, a lot of news agencies constantly try to slant the news and especially the polls to try and show that this particular demographic thinks differently than I know they really do.



I got to the point where I actually said, "Hell! I'd pay to have my true opinion recorded." And, that was the spark that started POWRUS.



What's in it for you is to be able to tell the world where you stand on every social and political issue we have and, at the same time, get to see where you are in relation to your peers. You can see how you match up against republicans, democrats, independents, blacks, whites, hispanics, catholics, jews, muslims, age, gender, income bracket, education level, and many other categories.



The media has a monopoly on our opinions because nobody can provide a means for us to present them in one place. True to human nature - when there is a big chunk of missing information, people are more than willing to speculate. And, that's exactly what is happening. The media analysts are speculating - and always in their favor - what we think. And, they use dirty tricks to pull it off.



I don't want to be TOLD by the media what people in my demographic group are supposed to think. I want to tell them what I DO think.



That's what's in if for you. The ability to let our elected officials know what's really going on with their constituents. That will help them to do their jobs of representing us much better.



Haven't you ever wondered what the entire country thinks about issues like Gay Marriage, or illegal aliens, or the Border Fence or global warming or the oil shortage or carbon footprints or Terri Schiavo? Personally, I don't care what you think. I believe that we each have a right to our own opinions. That's why the organization is not interested in changing anyone's opinion - only recording that opinion for all to see. And that is the ammunition we need to combat the slanted polls and news stories that are being used a propaganda to push political agendas down our throats!



I think that is more than just worth something - it's something that is desperately needed. It could also be used as a template for the citizens of other countries to use.

3 months, 3 weeks ago

On May 15, 2008, 11:46 am DaveH said:

On May 15, 2008, 10:56 am interviewables said:



I understand the concept and I like it. However, other than donations and government grants, I don't see a way to monetize it.



Now, if you want to switch gears and be a polling site and sell the results, that would be pretty easy to do.



The way i understand the idea, you want constituents to be able to tell their representatives what they think (collectively) and then pass that information along and hopefully be governed by these decisions. Great concept. However, any politician who would do this would be committing political suicide. Only rich white middle aged men have internet connections and so everyone else would be left out in the cold.



Now, if you were just a site that collected opinions, and if you got enough hits, other media would be using your data. Just make sure your information is scientifically collected.

I can see tremendous potential with this. Is powrus.com available?

This is more for letting the crowd know what everybody thinks. Politicians can make use of the site to ask their own polls. After speaking with my own local Congressman, I learned that he does polls constantly. His staff try to call people to find out what they think. But, it's like trying to get people to do homework. Hardly anybody will stay on the phone to answer the questions. A website like POWRUS.ORG allows people to come to us and participate, rather than having someone call and intrude into their personal space.



I DO NOT agree with your assertion that only rich middle aged men have internet connections. There are more than enough people who have computers - of all ages races and income levels - to make this work. After all, it ain't just rich white guys who have FaceBook and MySpace pages.



Donations will be possible and can help pay for the site to keep going. I guess it would still have to function as a nonprofit and have fund drives. But, the primary concept must be kept in place - collect the data and give it away for free.



This is an answer to all of the slanted polls that are published each week by news agencies around the world. It will only represent the people who have answered our questionnaires - it will never presume to speak for the entire country. But, with sample sizes that are in the millions (if everything goes as planned) the results will put the tiny polls to shame.

[quote]I DO NOT agree with your assertion that only rich middle aged men have internet connections. There are more than enough people who have computers - of all ages races and income levels - to make this work. After all, it ain't just rich white guys who have FaceBook and MySpace pages.[/quote]



I was being sarcastic in that comment but that is exactly the backlash you will get from some people. That's politics!





But I still have to ask. What's in it for me? What do I get for coming to your site? Why would I donate?



I like the idea. Have you thought about making this a petition site? Anyone could come to the site, pay a small fee, have their own petition page, and then invite others to sign on. Others who care about a certain cause could sign the petitions and there would be a lot of debate going on. Those for and those against. Now I have a reason to come to the site and I just might see something come from my involvement.



Think about it.

3 months, 3 weeks ago

On May 15, 2008, 10:56 am interviewables said:



I understand the concept and I like it. However, other than donations and government grants, I don't see a way to monetize it.



Now, if you want to switch gears and be a polling site and sell the results, that would be pretty easy to do.



The way i understand the idea, you want constituents to be able to tell their representatives what they think (collectively) and then pass that information along and hopefully be governed by these decisions. Great concept. However, any politician who would do this would be committing political suicide. Only rich white middle aged men have internet connections and so everyone else would be left out in the cold.



Now, if you were just a site that collected opinions, and if you got enough hits, other media would be using your data. Just make sure your information is scientifically collected.

I can see tremendous potential with this. Is powrus.com available?

This is more for letting the crowd know what everybody thinks. Politicians can make use of the site to ask their own polls. After speaking with my own local Congressman, I learned that he does polls constantly. His staff try to call people to find out what they think. But, it's like trying to get people to do homework. Hardly anybody will stay on the phone to answer the questions. A website like POWRUS.ORG allows people to come to us and participate, rather than having someone call and intrude into their personal space.



I DO NOT agree with your assertion that only rich middle aged men have internet connections. There are more than enough people who have computers - of all ages races and income levels - to make this work. After all, it ain't just rich white guys who have FaceBook and MySpace pages.



Donations will be possible and can help pay for the site to keep going. I guess it would still have to function as a nonprofit and have fund drives. But, the primary concept must be kept in place - collect the data and give it away for free.



This is an answer to all of the slanted polls that are published each week by news agencies around the world. It will only represent the people who have answered our questionnaires - it will never presume to speak for the entire country. But, with sample sizes that are in the millions (if everything goes as planned) the results will put the tiny polls to shame.

3 months, 3 weeks ago

I understand the concept and I like it. However, other than donations and government grants, I don't see a way to monetize it.



Now, if you want to switch gears and be a polling site and sell the results, that would be pretty easy to do.



The way i understand the idea, you want constituents to be able to tell their representatives what they think (collectively) and then pass that information along and hopefully be governed by these decisions. Great concept. However, any politician who would do this would be committing political suicide. Only rich white middle aged men have internet connections and so everyone else would be left out in the cold.



Now, if you were just a site that collected opinions, and if you got enough hits, other media would be using your data. Just make sure your information is scientifically collected.

I can see tremendous potential with this. Is powrus.com available?

3 months, 3 weeks ago

Well, I was hoping someone could help me with the questions I have about this. I'm still interested to know if a nonprofit organization can use "the crowd" as part of the business model.

3 months, 3 weeks ago

Can these 2 concepts coexist in the same project? I have what I consider to be a very important idea. Possibly the most important idea I have ever had. In a nutshell, it is an opinion registry website where people can record their opinions on all current social and political issues. I call it POWURS.ORG. It stands for the People's Opinion and Will Registry of the United States. There is already a test website up at that address.







Traditional nonprofit organizations are very cumbersome to start and manage. But, I think this idea is desperately needed ASAP. It doesn't matter who you are or what you think. The goal of the organization is to record WHAT you think and to make that information available, for FREE, to anyone who wants to know. At the same time, your private information is kept private. Only the answers to questionnaires, and your demographic profile, are made available publicly.



I need this to be a nonprofit organization so that our elected officials can recommend it to their constituents. I already spoke with my local congressman, and he loves the idea. Each elected official could have his or her own home page where they can host their own questionnaires.



Also, as an example of why I came up with this idea, consider this actual polling question that I found on the web a few years ago . . .



"Do you want young women to die in back-alley abortions because the right to choose has been taken away?"



This is a slanted question if there ever was one. If a person is truly against abortion, how can they say YES to this? The only way to deal with such a question is to not answer it.



Too many polling organizations try to educate the people who are taking their polls WHILE they are answering the questions. They attempt to slant the answers in their favor. So, if a person were to answer NO to the above question, that answer would be taken as a YES for PRO CHOICE. This means that many PRO LIFE people would be tricked or embarrassed into answering the wrong way.



I don't mean to get bogged down in the actual abortion debate. I just think it is a good example of how questions can be so misleading.



The number one rule of POWRUS.ORG questionnaires is that HOW and WHY a person came to form their opinions does not matter. Only WHAT a person thinks at this moment is important. Because of this, a sizable portion of the site will be dedicated to evaluating the questions themselves to assure that they are not slanted.



So, the collective crowd will police itself and assure that no one group takes over. This means that it doesn't matter what your social or political views are. It also means that my own views do not matter. It only matters that we collect the true opinions of the crowd.



Polling organizations collect their answers in secret and sell the data to the media. POWRUS.ORG will be the, if you will excuse the pun, POLAR OPPOSITE of such organizations. It will require people to work on the questions, produce the answers, support the organization, and we will GIVE the data away for free.



Too many people want to tell us what we think simply because there is no available pool of data that contains that information. This organization will fill that order. We will produce POWRSTATS on all questionnaires breaking down the data by all demographic categories and regions of the country.



But, what I'm not sure about is how such a website could support itself. Nonprofits do not permit advertising, so banner ads would not work. If we asked for donations, that could work, but it doesn't sound like wikinomics.



What do you guys think?

1 month, 2 weeks ago

Very useful info/templates. Good work.







Kenny Beck

http://www.superstarcase.org' target='_blank'>http://www.superstarcase.org

1 month, 3 weeks ago

Spotted this via reddit a week ago. Its some templates and documents that should be useful to anyone starting a business.



If you're an expert on any of these and think they're not up to stuff, post here so people know not to use them. Of course they look fine to me... an "expert" in putting quotes around the word expert.



Summary of doucments...



Non Disclosure Agreement (NDA)

LLC Operating Agreement

Sample Convertible Note

Board of Advisor Agreement

Financial Projections Template

Financial Model Projections for an Internet Company

Application for Employer Identification Number (EIN)

Start Up Pitch Presentation

Business Plan Presentation Template

Business Plan Deck

1 month, 3 weeks ago

On July 8, 2008, 1:39 pm hotlou said:

How do you earn Cambros?

Hotlou, there is a new site called VenCorps we're offering invitations to (please be patient and eventually we'll send you an email with your invite). It is also about levering the wisdom of crowd and launching startups.



That will be more use to you than Cambros.



However, if you own livestock... in particular a cow. I'd be more than willing to trade 5 Cambros for it.

1 month, 3 weeks ago

You no longer can. CH is spinning down.

1 month, 4 weeks ago

How do you earn Cambros?

2 months ago

Just thought I would put it out there. If you want hosting for your start-up site. You can host it with me, without ads if you are a CH member and contact me.

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