CEO Jarrod Dicker's Weekly Update July 31, 2018
A Path to nLightnment
In May we announced Po.et Development Labs (POEDL), an official
initiative to support emerging products and platforms that leverage
the Po.et Network. The announcement was covered in various trades
(pasted at bottom for reference) and highlighted one key component of
Po.et's strategic focus; to enable and attract new and existing
companies to build on top of the Po.et protocol. Today, the first
POEDL partner Inkrypt made a major announcement with their application
nLIGHTn. I've pasted it below for all to see:
"Back in May, we launched Po.et Development Labs as a way to support
projects that believe in Po.et’s vision and expand the number of ways
to engage with content on the Po.et Network. Inkrypt, the first
project to be welcomed into Development Labs, is building a
distributed media-hosting platform focused on providing journalism
around the world with censorship resistance. Inkrypt seeks to create a
comprehensive media ecosystem for Web 3.0 by becoming a one-stop shop
for content aggregation and distribution and by partnering with
synergistic protocols like Po.et for service integrations such as
cryptographic content attribution and licensing.
Inkrypt’s mission is to not only eliminate the single-to-few points of
failure in media hosting and devolve the deep concentrations of
network power that currently acquiesce to or are subverted by
malicious actors who seek to manipulate the flow of information, but
also to create a journalist-led governance model to monitor content in
an ethical fashion.
As part of its greater effort to empower publishers and make
journalism truly free, Inkrypt is launching its very first product
offering, nLightn, which is a decentralized application for
journalistic publishing that combines a peer-to-peer, encrypted
storage protocol with an anonymity overlay that ensures comprehensive
front- to back-end censorship resistance. The Harvard-based team
conducted the very first live demo of the DApp on July 19, 2018, at
the Distributed 2018 conference in San Francisco.
In the coming weeks, the Inkrypt team will deploy nLightn with
freelance and citizen journalists in censorship-prone geographies,
such as Syria, Iraq, Pakistan and Turkey.
We’re thrilled to have Inkrypt as part of the Po.et family and hope
that you’ll keep an eye on them as they work to usher in a new era of
freelance and citizen journalism that will not only inform and empower
citizens of censorship-prone geographies, but also facilitate the
production of valuable content for global consumption."
This is the first of many innovations built in partnership with Po.et.
I am going to focus solely on POEDL for this update even though there
are many more things happening at Po.et right now. Why? Because in the
next few weeks, we will be giving more granular expectations for main
net launch, new partner acquisitions, new product updates to the
protocol and much more. These will release as their own updates
because they are BIG news. The work Inkrypt is doing is an excellent
example of how earlier adopters are thinking about the platform to
help strengthen their offering in partnership with a like minded
technology and cause. This is just the beginning, and there are many
other developments happening on Po.et today. Stay tuned for updates
while we're heads down building the platform you all deserve.
JD
POEDL:
https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/319634/poet-announces-inkrypt-anticensorship-project.html
https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/22/po-et-launches-lab-for-developers-to-build-apps-on-publishing-blockchain/
https://www.nasdaq.com/article/this-decentralized-media-hosting-service-aims-to-challenge-censorship-cm967217
https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-media-trends-0f657410-6347-41f5-a829-4b327da57f54.html
Topic: [ANN] Po.et - digital creative assets timestamped onto the blockchain - page 7. (Read 40012 times)
July 31, 2018, 02:46:52 PM
July 31, 2018, 10:23:24 AM
Po.Et Development Labs Partner Inkrypt Launches nLIGHTn!
https://blog.po.et/development-labs-partner-inkrypt-launches-nlightn-a3fc90b736ff
July 27, 2018, 09:46:42 AM
how does po.et manage licensing for individual artworks? why not erc 721? How much you guys see Poe going?
Hey xybersurfer
Po.et provide you a proof that you were able to timestamp a certain content through the Po.et protocol.
Po.et uses the Bitcoin blockchain to ensure that the file’s hash is permanently stored in an immutable data structure without the need for a central time-stamping authority. The POE itself is an ERC-20 token since it allows to leverage the good compatibility with exchanges and access to a larger development community. ERC-721 tokens are used for other purposes which not necessarily support Po.et protocol. As of now, Po.et remains ERC-20.
July 26, 2018, 05:39:26 AM
Proof of Effort: Putting Effort Over Results
A lot of people ask me, “Who are Po.et’s competitors?” This is a common and, in fact, fair question, especially as Po.et is an emerging technology in a new space. But what’s amazing about this space (that is, the blockchain and crypto space) is that it’s not about competition, it’s about collaboration.
https://blog.po.et/proof-of-effort-putting-effort-over-results-c0cf58785ce0
A lot of people ask me, “Who are Po.et’s competitors?” This is a common and, in fact, fair question, especially as Po.et is an emerging technology in a new space. But what’s amazing about this space (that is, the blockchain and crypto space) is that it’s not about competition, it’s about collaboration.
https://blog.po.et/proof-of-effort-putting-effort-over-results-c0cf58785ce0
July 25, 2018, 10:59:57 PM
how does po.et manage licensing for individual artworks? why not erc 721? How much you guys see Poe going?
July 25, 2018, 04:52:47 PM
how po.et can benefit hokders despite being a utility token? any news or update progress from the team?
Check it out, here is the latest news form the team https://blog.po.et/weekly-update-from-jarrod-july-17th-2018-7e41b2a13820
July 25, 2018, 04:13:54 PM
how po.et can benefit hokders despite being a utility token? any news or update progress from the team?
July 25, 2018, 02:12:38 PM
CEO Jarrod Dicker's Update - July 25th, 2018
Putting Effort Over Results
A lot of people ask me, "Who are Po.et's competitors?" This is a common and, in fact, fair question, especially as Po.et is an emerging technology in a new space. But what's amazing about this space (that is, the blockchain and crypto space) is that it's not about competition, it's about collaboration.
At Po.et, we're paving a two-way street; the opportunity to leverage Po.et's technology on-platform and off- as well. We are building a web of interoperability, a web of collaboration. And many in this space agree, which is why this isn't a rat race to the bottom, it's a cooperative climb to the top. We win when we all get there. And the early foundations of Po.et will be the stepping stones not just for our marketplace and reputation signals, but for many who are building on Web 3.0 at large.
We believe in transparency. That's why we're building on a blockchain and that's why the incentives tied to crypto economics are critical to its overall success. But you don't NEED a blockchain for
transparency — this is true. However, we do NEED a blockchain for dynamics tied to transparency in order to reveal a decentralized consensus on information. What does a universal immutable ledger of all of the world’s information look like? How do we move beyond basic categorical means to find the most informative and most important? That is driven by decentralized transparency that moves towards the overall notion of reputation. But how do we measure that?
Today, many question what is true and what
is not true. This isn't something that's necessarily great for society, especially for the media and journalism business, but it's the world we live in. Now, more than ever, it's important to have third-party verification for transparency to expose the information behind the information. We are no longer comfortable letting the fox guard the henhouse and those who practice ethical creative standards believe in working toward a transparent system that shows not just the results of their work, but the effort that they put into it. There is much we can learn from these standards, and build a system of exposure based on this set of criteria that is exposed to consumers. How can we, together, build a default list of behaviors that is exposed to a consumer in order to reveal the ingredients that go into a work? It’s not black and white. But like everything else we consume, the more information around its components the better.
This is what we're building at Po.et; the nutritional label for the web.
We want to put value back on the effort and not the results. In media specifically, the definition of success is predominantly on the results. How viral did a story go? Did it drive acquisitions? Did a consumer come in through this story and go elsewhere? However, the value of the creator and the brand is the reason why a consumer engages a work in the first place. The very thing we can’t yet identify and reveal is the real value of a work. So what are the key components that would help reveal the efforts and value that go into a work? This can be a written word, or a piece of music or art; basically, anything valued and tied to a creator's IP. I asked Twitter what it thought some signals should be as it pertains to journalism and the responses were interesting.
Some recommendations included:
1) Time spent
2) Number of sources
3) Fact check/accuracy percentage
4) Number of verified source claims
5) Hosting brand and URL
6) Investors
7) Updates/changes
Author & Author History
& more
You can see the entirety of the conversation here: https://twitter.com/jarroddicker/status/1021383017317781505. What's clear is that we know that there is value in a creator's work. And we recognize what "premium" is but we, as consumers, don't actually see what "premium" is. What if there was a way to expose the efforts in premium and put the value on that input instead of the output?
Premium is what happens before a creator hits publish.
Enter Po.et.
As you know, we have spent the past few months building toward mainnet and updating features to support attribution, claim types, search and discovery and more. You can dive deeper into Eric's update
here: https://blog.po.et/july-2018-po-et-engineering-progress-report-ead91299140c. These protocol-level implementations will enable creators of every capacity to leverage the products being built on the Po.et platform as well as those companies leveraging the protocol for their own operations in different sectors of the space. These features will benefit consumers in a variety of ways but the biggest component of the works will be its effort and utility toward reputation. How can we drive beyond a web of recency and relevancy and into the new world of reputation? I obsess over this, and to save us all time I'll just link to the latest blog post coverage of our development of a bridge to a better web: https://blog.po.et/building-the-bridge-to-a-better-web-e2c257e475a5.
What else? We're rounding out alpha partnerships and edging closer toward a mainnet release. We spent the last three weeks in Nashville, San Francisco, Philadelphia and Washington D.C. meeting with top media and agency executives about Po.et. We're keynoting Turner Broadcasting's executive event on blockchain technology today, joining Comcast's Techstars Mentorship on Friday and finalizing plans for the alpha launch next week.
As always, please follow our progress on GitHub, Telegram, Twitter and everywhere else. We're screaming from the rafters so you all can hear us.
Putting Effort Over Results
A lot of people ask me, "Who are Po.et's competitors?" This is a common and, in fact, fair question, especially as Po.et is an emerging technology in a new space. But what's amazing about this space (that is, the blockchain and crypto space) is that it's not about competition, it's about collaboration.
At Po.et, we're paving a two-way street; the opportunity to leverage Po.et's technology on-platform and off- as well. We are building a web of interoperability, a web of collaboration. And many in this space agree, which is why this isn't a rat race to the bottom, it's a cooperative climb to the top. We win when we all get there. And the early foundations of Po.et will be the stepping stones not just for our marketplace and reputation signals, but for many who are building on Web 3.0 at large.
We believe in transparency. That's why we're building on a blockchain and that's why the incentives tied to crypto economics are critical to its overall success. But you don't NEED a blockchain for
transparency — this is true. However, we do NEED a blockchain for dynamics tied to transparency in order to reveal a decentralized consensus on information. What does a universal immutable ledger of all of the world’s information look like? How do we move beyond basic categorical means to find the most informative and most important? That is driven by decentralized transparency that moves towards the overall notion of reputation. But how do we measure that?
Today, many question what is true and what
is not true. This isn't something that's necessarily great for society, especially for the media and journalism business, but it's the world we live in. Now, more than ever, it's important to have third-party verification for transparency to expose the information behind the information. We are no longer comfortable letting the fox guard the henhouse and those who practice ethical creative standards believe in working toward a transparent system that shows not just the results of their work, but the effort that they put into it. There is much we can learn from these standards, and build a system of exposure based on this set of criteria that is exposed to consumers. How can we, together, build a default list of behaviors that is exposed to a consumer in order to reveal the ingredients that go into a work? It’s not black and white. But like everything else we consume, the more information around its components the better.
This is what we're building at Po.et; the nutritional label for the web.
We want to put value back on the effort and not the results. In media specifically, the definition of success is predominantly on the results. How viral did a story go? Did it drive acquisitions? Did a consumer come in through this story and go elsewhere? However, the value of the creator and the brand is the reason why a consumer engages a work in the first place. The very thing we can’t yet identify and reveal is the real value of a work. So what are the key components that would help reveal the efforts and value that go into a work? This can be a written word, or a piece of music or art; basically, anything valued and tied to a creator's IP. I asked Twitter what it thought some signals should be as it pertains to journalism and the responses were interesting.
Some recommendations included:
1) Time spent
2) Number of sources
3) Fact check/accuracy percentage
4) Number of verified source claims
5) Hosting brand and URL
6) Investors
7) Updates/changes
Author & Author History& more
You can see the entirety of the conversation here: https://twitter.com/jarroddicker/status/1021383017317781505. What's clear is that we know that there is value in a creator's work. And we recognize what "premium" is but we, as consumers, don't actually see what "premium" is. What if there was a way to expose the efforts in premium and put the value on that input instead of the output?
Premium is what happens before a creator hits publish.
Enter Po.et.
As you know, we have spent the past few months building toward mainnet and updating features to support attribution, claim types, search and discovery and more. You can dive deeper into Eric's update
here: https://blog.po.et/july-2018-po-et-engineering-progress-report-ead91299140c. These protocol-level implementations will enable creators of every capacity to leverage the products being built on the Po.et platform as well as those companies leveraging the protocol for their own operations in different sectors of the space. These features will benefit consumers in a variety of ways but the biggest component of the works will be its effort and utility toward reputation. How can we drive beyond a web of recency and relevancy and into the new world of reputation? I obsess over this, and to save us all time I'll just link to the latest blog post coverage of our development of a bridge to a better web: https://blog.po.et/building-the-bridge-to-a-better-web-e2c257e475a5.
What else? We're rounding out alpha partnerships and edging closer toward a mainnet release. We spent the last three weeks in Nashville, San Francisco, Philadelphia and Washington D.C. meeting with top media and agency executives about Po.et. We're keynoting Turner Broadcasting's executive event on blockchain technology today, joining Comcast's Techstars Mentorship on Friday and finalizing plans for the alpha launch next week.
As always, please follow our progress on GitHub, Telegram, Twitter and everywhere else. We're screaming from the rafters so you all can hear us.
July 25, 2018, 01:04:15 AM
Hello dev's.
I hope that the project will perform all that has been estimated!
I hope that the project will perform all that has been estimated!
July 25, 2018, 12:56:17 AM
CEO Jarrod Dicker interviewed at Distributed, check out the video here : https://smartereum.com/25224/po-et-review-how-po-et-plans-to-take-over-the-media-space-and-compensate-content-creators-interview-with-po-et-ceo-jarrod-dicker/
July 24, 2018, 06:53:42 PM
Could poet solve the problem on youtube when people abuse the copyright strikes? And what are poet used for?
July 24, 2018, 04:49:43 PM
Just read your "Regulation Can’t Fix Digital Content Attribution" article and I gotta say that I love it – a very refreshing perspective, even if a bit controversial!
Thanks for the support. Join us on Telegram for all the latest! https://t.me/poetofficial
July 24, 2018, 02:32:03 PM
Just read your "Regulation Can’t Fix Digital Content Attribution" article and I gotta say that I love it – a very refreshing perspective, even if a bit controversial!
July 24, 2018, 08:47:59 AM
Partnerships will be released together with main net in the future? How well have all the PR events gone
Partnerships can be announced at any time. Stay tuned for Jarrod's weekly update later today.
July 24, 2018, 02:20:35 AM
Partnerships will be released together with main net in the future? How well have all the PR events gone
July 23, 2018, 01:25:38 PM
project Po.et want to make a note of the most digital media assets of institutional and globally can be verified, I think this is very useful and can secure our assets from hackers
July 23, 2018, 01:18:00 PM
how will main net help poe? What issue is it going to solve? Would like to understand more. It's great main net is being worked upon, but what exactly is it???
right now we're on the bitcoin testnet - mainnet simply moves that publishing will move to the bitcoin mainnet. Think of it like when you are developing a website you have your testbed server where you do all your configurations and tests and then when you're ready to launch, you move it to a production server
July 23, 2018, 08:27:31 AM
how will main net help poe? What issue is it going to solve? Would like to understand more. It's great main net is being worked upon, but what exactly is it???
July 17, 2018, 12:24:53 PM
5) When Mainnet? In June, we were tracking fewer than 100 total to-do items for mainnet. In July, we’re tracking 174. We’re making healthy progress toward a mainnet beta launch in the coming months. Months.
Can the team give an indication for the release? Will it be 2018 or early 2019?
Can the team give an indication for the release? Will it be 2018 or early 2019?
Hi Dvd1989, there is no date to give at this moment. The po.et team is working hard to get the mainnet out, but in order to work effectively they are not setting a deadline on it.
Thanks for your interest and support!
July 17, 2018, 12:17:45 PM
5) When Mainnet? In June, we were tracking fewer than 100 total to-do items for mainnet. In July, we’re tracking 174. We’re making healthy progress toward a mainnet beta launch in the coming months. Months.
Can the team give an indication for the release? Will it be 2018 or early 2019?
Can the team give an indication for the release? Will it be 2018 or early 2019?
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