-
Notifications
You must be signed in to change notification settings - Fork 31
Service Ideas
Somewhere people could write anonymous articles for Marks
A paid publishing service where you draft an article and then publish it by marking it (paying for it), subsequent marks on it get split between you and the provider, it's a revenue stream for both, where spam and bad articles cost money, and writers gain reputation if successful, reputation which is also money.
It would allow people the option to post controversial articles without necessarily using their name
Authors can claim an article later if they want by signing their identity with the private key of the mark used to publish it.
Perhaps someone has a problem that they want to make public but can't be personally associated with the article.
Another example is that it could also provide secure blogging for whistleblowers and people reporting in disrupted regions, and provide a revenue flow for them since readers would support them by marking their efforts. Even if they couldn't spend the marks on the ground, they could at least pay for more secure reports and services like anonymous email/servers and gain reputation.
When you find a cache you scan a QR code, the QR code is a bitmark payment request with the amount left empty. The finder would then give the placer a quantity of Marks, to say they had found it, and also to act as an instant review.
Client can already do it, just click 'request payment' and print the QR code, put it in a cache you are done, on the geocaching site you simply enter an address as the id of a geocache. Some modifications to the websites may need to be made, but they are minor.
The review is reputation and also a small payment, which reimburses the geocacher and encourages his actions, to place another geocache and fill it again.
You could mark a restaurant that you enjoy by scanning their QR code when you pay your bill.
You could have a site that has trending places in your area based on the amount or frequency of marks.
Find out where the good places to eat are, and it's something that business owners have an incentive to add, it's free promotion. Which could lead to them accepting marks as full payment for meals or whatever they sell.
This way it starts out like they're participating in a system that promotes their business. Which might eventually lead them to using marks as currency.
Think that the bill is split into two addresses, one to the company and one to the server, your bill and tips are then both in the block chain, and the tips to the server are their review/reputation
To start with it could just be a printable badge for servers, "Mark My Service" with a QR code, that is very simple and would work, then as companies see their staff getting tips, they may consider taking payment with Marks too.
Micro services for people can be created which accept marks as payment.
- Anonymous email providers, with a modified send button which says "Mark and Send"
- Secure file uploading, or image hosting
- Private server instances to be used on demand
Corporations often offer loyalty rewards to customers, rewards could take the form of Marks, which give the customer both Reputation and Money. Marks may also be used as a form of cashback.
Physical Marks or Mark Gift Cards may need to be created, a redeemable card (plastic wallet) preloaded with a quantity of Marks, perhaps refillable as a loyalty card.
Cards such as these, or physical objects which have been markified, armed with an amount of marks in some way, may be given as corporate gifts.
Often confectionery producers run competitions, where you find a code inside the wrapper and log on to the website to find out if you had one.
These codes could be swapped for private keys, where each one can be added by the customer to claim a number of Marks which have been allocated to that key.
Alternatively the existing model could be kept which has branding benefits for the company, but instead of giving away a free candy bar they give away marks to the value of the prize.
Within technical communities Beer has long been synonymous with reputation, to give someone a beer, or owe them a beer, is to give them reputation and promise to give them a small financial reward in the future, often in the form of a beer.
getMarked may be branded alternatively to look like a small beer icon, consider such a thing on a community forum like BeerAdvocate, users could give each other reputation + beer money with a single click.
Institutional momentum is to stick to the last decision made, so Marking should be secure, well defined, and documented before targeting existing service providers, if they deny it first time they will probably keep denying us.
Any service anywhere which uses a reputation system, or a mirco transaction system under the hood, can be modified to use Marks instead.