The Interledger Community 🌱: Vivid IoV Labs

JAM session 13: Mat from MG.Social on building ad free social media business models, token launches and more

Ben Marshall — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 10:18:24 +0000

A bonus JAM episode! Mat joined us from MG.Social – an ad free social network with blockchain monetization powered by Coil and Xumm.

We covered Mat’s background, what MG.Social hopes to be and everything from tokenomics to user retention.

See the rest of our series on Web Monetization

Looking for Dev Support?

Check out our post here

Developer support & consultancy available at Vivid IoV Labs

Ben Marshall — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 19:34:44 +0000

Hi all,

Due to funding constraints we have brilliant full stack developers with extensive development experience who we do not want to lose before our next projects commence later in the year.

We are therefore looking to share costs during the summer by assisting with any software development projects.

Things we can help with:

Web Monetization integrations
Smart contracts
General software development and consulting for both front end and back end (eg. platform development, small projects, proof of concepts)

We are flexible in terms of how this could be approached and project scope. If you are in need of some development help, please get in touch with details at info@vividiov.com

Freemitization — Grant Report #2 (Final)

Ben Marshall — Sat, 22 May 2021 10:50:07 +0000

This post is a final update on our progress on the Grant for the Web project: Freemitization

Progress on objectives

The details of each aspect of the project are included below in the Key Activities section, however in the interest of brevity here is a TL;DR for our progress:

Open source modules for Web Monetization Revenue Sharing and freemium-style Video Ad Serving are available
JAM Podcast: Web Monetization Series completed with 12 episodes, including an episode with the GftW team
UX Report for Web Monetization published
Vivid IoV Labs are now planning to become a Web Monetization Service Provider

Key activities

As previously stated we received the grant to work on four areas; advancement / integration of Web Monetization technology via the creation of two Web Monetization focused modules and development of the Peerkat platform, a user research project and promoting the technology through educational materials via the various marketing channels.

You can see all of our objectives in this post

1. Web Monetization

Milestone update:

[✅ Done] i. Integrate XRP tipbot, gather technical information about ILP and advertising implementation
[✅ Done] ii. Work with Web Monetisation testing various ways to serve ads to non web monetized users
[✅ Done] iii. Create, user test and iterate prototyped solution for serving ads with a number of users from each target group. Build out once acceptance criteria are passed through defining wireframes for user journeys (happy/unhappy paths) and accessibility requirements.
[✅ Done] iv. Finalise the freemium module and release to developers, begin design and development on redistribution of payments
[✅ Done] v. Gather feedback from developers and improve on freemium module, Implement first iterations of redistribution model
[✅ Done] vi. Finalise redistribution module, release to user and developers for testing
[✅ Done] vii. Make any improvements, fix bugs based on testing

We have received positive feedback so far and have held encouraging discussions with Metagov and Matt Mankins at Mozilla about our Web Monetization Revenue Sharing module. These are ongoing conversations, but we are hopeful that we will be assisting with integrations and developing the modules further in the future.
Relevant links: Freemitization website, Open source modules: Revenue Sharing and Freemium Video Ad serving
Check this post for demo walkthroughs
Please reach out to us on here or at info@vividiov.com if you would like to discuss our Web Monetization modules/developing.

2. Peerkat Platform

Milestone update:

[✅ Done] i. Define and develop MVP for all tiers of service, incl. Digital analytic requirements and onboard initial testers (whilst grouping them into target user groups and profiles in accordance to GDPR)
[✅ Done] ii. Collect feedback from alpha testers and fix bugs, develop additional features, work on integration with Uphold Wallet
[✅ Done] iii. Enhance user profile page (based on qual/quant data) and integrate social features
[✅ Done 🔄 Changed] iv. Optimise onboarding process to streamline user acquisition including referral mechanism
[❌ Not Complete] v. Integrate freemium module into platform for further usability testing, add UI elements to improve UX
[✅ Done] vi. Test and implement gamification of platform with user voting
[✅ Done] vii. Develop task and reward system in app to entice continued use

The Peerkat mobile platform went live in Q1 2021 and we have had 36k new users, 47k sessions and 219k page views
So far we featured the first half of our Web Monetization podcasts as content in the platform (to market WM to a new user base) and had 1,718 total views

3. Community and marketing

Milestone update:

[✅ Done] i. Establish partnerships with key supporters
[✅ Done 🔄 Changed] ii. Create content plan for following 6 months, release one podcast and two educational blogs
[✅ Done 🔄 Changed] iii. Run workshops for user experience, release one podcast and two educational blog
[✅ Done 🔄 Changed] iv. Collate and synthesise findings from user experience workshop and share with ecosystem by publishing findings, release one podcast and two educational blogs, plan Christmas content competition
[❌ Not Complete 🔄 Changed] v. Run Christmas content competition, plan new year grant giveaways. Optimise content distribution channels, release one podcast and two educational blogs
[✅ Done 🔄 Changed] vi. Release one podcast and two educational blogs, distribute grant giveaways, Web Monetization webinar
[✅ Done 🔄 Changed] vii. Release one podcast and two educational blogs, content creation & distribution webinar

Stats for our various channels:

Twitter posts - 237k impressions on Peerkat account, 72k on Vivid
LinkedIn posts - 6.5k impressions
YouTube stats - 1.6k impressions
Peerkat WM-related video views - 46k impressions
Vividiov.com company website visits (including Web Monetization blogs, podcast homepage and ux report) - 3.1k new users, 6.5k page views
Freemitization website visits - 187 sessions
Open source module downloads - total downloads (not unique) according to npm data: 271 for video ads module, 1744 for revenue sharing module

Other notes:

Podcast homepage
Greg talked at MozFest, Akita/Skittish hangout, Ballet Rising podcast, Benzinga Crypto Show (913 views)
Vivid and Peerkat social followings have grown to 1,655 for Peerkat Twitter followers, 120 Twitter followers and 84 LinkedIn followers for Vivid

4. User Experience Research Report

Milestone update:

[✅ Done] i. Secondary research and synthesise into themes to identify gaps in knowledge for primary research of target user groups.
[✅ Done] ii. Design primary research based on what we want to learn from secondary research using quantitative user feedback from MVP (survey) and qualitative (user interviews), to understand user acceptance and additional needs/features. Synthesise insight to deliver opportunities for the project team by personas.
[✅ Done] iii. Plan, design and conduct user tests for Web Monetization
[✅ Done] iv. Plan, design and conduct tests

UX Report
The five most important themes we took from the research were:
Most common theme – more Web Monetization Service Providers needed for ecosystem to thrive!
Web Monetization is a nascent technology and requires an increased engineering effort
Likewise, increasing the awareness and the marketing investment for Web Monetization should be a high priority
More flexibility for payment streaming controls and options such as tipping and donation tools are required by users Users really like the technology, however the entire ecosystem needs developing
The survey findings generally backed up our assumptions that we had held going into the GftW project. This has encouraged us further to keep testing and developing our ideas as we strive to create brilliant user experiences, and we are excited at the prospect of becoming a service provider.

What community support would benefit your project?

Visit the Freemitization site for a demo of our open source modules for Web Monetization Revenue Sharing and Freemium-style Video Ads. Please get in touch if you would like to discuss our Web Monetization modules/development further
Read the Web Monetization UX Report
Check out the JAM Podcast, including the recent GftW episode

What’s next?

We will press ahead with our plans to integrate an “Earn” feature into our mobile platform Peerkat to aid user retention and to commercialise this product.
Begin early testing of our Web Browser Extension where users will be able to earn crypto while surfing the web, please sign up to our mailing list on our website if you are interested in getting your hands on this first!
Continue research and refine UX design to enhance our Web Browser Extension and become a Web Monetization service provider.
Develop our concept of establishing a crypto learning website to join up the user journey between our mobile experience and web extension experience.
Please join us on our journey by following @vividiov on Twitter

Relevant links/resources

Vivid IoV Labs website
Freemitization website
Open source modules: Revenue Sharing and Freemium Video Ad serving
JAM Podcast Web Monetization Series, GftW episode
Web Monetization UX Report

JAM session 12: Grant for the Web spending $100m to make the internet a better place!

Ben Marshall — Mon, 17 May 2021 16:07:29 +0000

JAM session 12: Grant for the Web spending $100m to make the internet a better place!

Check out our final episode of our first season of the JAM Podcast, where Erika and Chris from Grant for the Web join Greg to discuss how the fund works, exciting projects, community engagement, next steps & more grants...

See the rest of our series on Web Monetization

The Web Monetization UX Report released by Vivid

Ben Marshall — Fri, 14 May 2021 07:37:40 +0000

Vivid IoV Labs are pleased to publish the Web Monetization UX Report, the research was conducted during Q1 2021 with support from Grant for the Web.

The report is intended to help the Web Monetization community understand their users needs and inform the development of the next generation of brilliant user-focused web monetised products and content.

Click here for the full report

Please check out the report and we would love to hear from you if you would like to add to the report with your own research or if you have general feedback on the findings.

5 Key Takeaways

Most common theme – more Web Monetization Service Providers needed for ecosystem to thrive!
Web Monetization is a nascent technology and requires an increased engineering effort
Likewise, increasing the awareness and the marketing investment for Web Monetization should be a high priority
More flexibility for payment streaming controls and options such as tipping and donation tools are required by users
Users really like the technology, however the entire ecosystem needs developing

Just A Meme Podcast (Second Batch)

Ben Marshall — Thu, 13 May 2021 17:14:11 +0000

The second batch of podcasts are live across YouTube, Web Monetized link, Anchor, Apple and Spotify:

JAM#8 Antonio from Kendraio

JAM#9 Uchi from AfricaHacks (and now Coil)

JAM#10 Joshua from Metagov

JAM#11 Janet and Sam from Widget

JAM #12 Grant for the Web team special

Erika and Chris will be joining Greg to conclude our Web Monetization series, the podcast is being recorded today and we will post it on here in the next few days.

It should be a great episode reflecting on the programme to date and looking forward to what Grant for the Web has in store in the future, be sure to check back soon for it…

Thank you!

Thanks to all of our great guests, thank you also to those who reached out or have been following the series, we appreciate the support and hope you continue to follow the Just A Meme pod in the future!

Web Monetization modules for revenue sharing and video ads published by Vivid IoV Labs

Ben Marshall — Fri, 07 May 2021 16:51:03 +0000

Freemitization – the combination of revenue sharing and freemium-style video advertising for Web Monetization – has been finalised and published by Vivid IoV Labs.

Our technical lead, Ike Iwumene, compiled the following video demo walkthroughs for each module:

Freemitization Video Ads

Connecting video or live streaming content to Web Monetisation, enabling freemium style ad-free video or live streaming for Coil users (and other future Web Monetization providers).

Freemitization Revenue Sharing

Pooling and revenue sharing for Web Monetization by adopting a probabilistic model for content revenue. This can be implemented by content creators for redistributing the streamed revenue to other users in the value chain such as collaborators, social sharers and moderators, incentivising the content engagement and discoverability for creators.

Feedback

If you have any feedback or would like to get in touch about these Web Monetization modules please comment below or you can message us via our feedback form.

Freemium x Web Monetization = Freemitization!

Ben Marshall — Mon, 08 Mar 2021 09:47:56 +0000

Project overview

Freemitization is a live streaming experiment targeting mass adoption by combining freemium business models and Web Monetization.

Project team

The startup formed from the winning team of UCL and Ripple’s Block-Sprint 2019. Vivid IoV Labs are focused on consumer-facing applications of micropayments and creating a more inclusive internet by leveraging web 3 technologies.

More about the team

What we are doing

Freemitization demo site - currently under construction! This is our dev site with our open source modules for freemium ux and revenue sharing for web monetized content.

Peerkat - our live streaming project, the video-on-demand version is accessible via the ThunderCore blockchain app.

Just A Meme - our podcast series is live and we have had some great chats with a bunch of brilliant builders and creators in the Grant for the Web community.

The Web Monetization UX Report (coming soon) - our own primary research and collating research from around the ecosystem to help inform the development of the next generation of brilliant user-focused web monetized products and content.

What community support would benefit your project?

We would be grateful for your support and involvement by 1) checking out our podcast series with a variety of fellow GftW grantees all about Web Monetization, 2) completing our Web Monetization Survey if you are a Coil user, 3) giving us a follow on Twitter. Thank you!

Check out our podcast
Complete the Web Monetization Survey
Follow us on Twitter

Link Round Up!

Company Website
JAM Podcast
The Web Monetization Survey
GftW Mid-Term Grant Report

Highlight other projects

Please check out a few of our friends!..

Casey Herd
Hessel at the Free Music Archive
Benny - print on demand income
Adam at gFam

The Web Monetization Survey

Ben Marshall — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 17:34:05 +0000

Thanks very much to everybody who has got involved and completed the Web Monetization Survey - for those who have not yet or missed the first posts about it, we would be grateful if you could please take part in our survey via the link below:

The Web Monetization Survey

The results will be collated and published by Vivid IoV Labs at our website and shared via the relevant channels with the support of the Grant for the Web.

The Web Monetization Survey - get involved!

Ben Marshall — Tue, 16 Feb 2021 18:06:10 +0000

Calling all Web Monetization Users!

Please help by completing the Web Monetization Survey…

As part of our project we are conducting a user experience survey on behalf of the community to find out more about Web Monetization Users and what they really want.

The results will be collated and published by Vivid IoV Labs at our website and shared via the relevant channels with the support of the Grant for the Web.

Please help the community by completing the survey at the link below and sharing the survey with other Web Monetization Users:

The Web Monetization Survey

We will also be collating secondary research from fellow grantees and the wider ecosystem. Stay tuned for more info on this or get in touch if you want to contribute to the Web Monetization UX Report. Thank you!

Freemitization — Grant Report #1

Greg Hannam — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 09:09:13 +0000

This post will be an update on our progress on the Grant for the Web project: Freemitization.

Progress on objectives

I go into detail for every aspect of the project below in the Key Activities section however in the interest of brevity here is a TL;DR for our progress:

-- Demo of freemitization module Demo Recording
-- Initial build of revenue sharing via smart contracts (Demo coming soon)
-- Release of alpha Peerkat platform on the ThunderCore Hub (Blog post coming soon)
-- Created a UX survey “The Web Monetization Survey” to collect primary feedback from WM users (Final review in progress)
-- Arranged, recorded and released our JAM podcast sessions ready for our content marketing campaign - see our post
-- Began researching and developing ideas on becoming a Web Monetization service provider (More details coming soon)

Key activities

As previously stated we received the grant to work on four main areas; advancement / integration of Web Monetization technology via the creation of two Web Monetization focused modules and development of the Peerkat platform, a user research project and promoting the technology through educational materials via the various marketing channels.

You can see all our objectives in this post

1. Web Monetization

Milestone update:
[✅ Done] i. Integrate XRP tipbot, gather technical information about ILP and advertising implementation
[🛠 In Progress] ii. Work with Web Monetisation testing various ways to serve ads to non web monetized users
[🛠 In Progress] iii. Create, user test and iterate prototyped solution for serving ads with a number of users from each target group. Build out once acceptance criteria are passed through defining wireframes for user journeys (happy/unhappy paths) and accessibility requirements.
[🛠 In Progress] iv. Finalise the freemium module and release to developers, begin design and development on redistribution of payments
[📋 To do] v. Gather feedback from developers and improve on freemium module, Implement first iterations of redistribution model
[📋 To do] vi. Finalise redistribution module, release to user and developers for testing
[📋 To do] vii. Make any improvements, fix bugs based on testing

i. Research phase

Our first idea was to use XRP Tipbot again to build some sort of crypto aspect into our platform before we worked on the Web Monetization part. However, we came to the decision to postpone this for two reasons;

The XRP Tipbot is an experimental product and we feel it is unlikely to be developed and supported further unless it is acquired,
we realised tying ourselves to Twitter logins through the tipbot wasn't a feasible long term strategy so we opted to use a different model with a focus on interoperability.

ii. Development of Web Monetization

After the early works phase, we began to implement the technology. We encountered a number of challenges on the technology side namely;

Development and testing resources.

One of the issues we had to think about is how we can mock the events. It would be great if there was an example of how to do so in the documentation. We were able to find two great resources to replicate Web Monetization; Web Monetization simulator and monetize. We used these two modules to implement our own mocking module.

Error events

We also needed a way to catch Web Monetization event errors. The example on the webpage test Web Monetization is good, but we are also implementing a similar approach in our freemitization module.

We registered new events such as monetizationstart-error and monetizationprogress-error to catch when errors occur.

We also investigating two more events called monetizationreceipt-proof and monetizationreceipt-error, to explore other cases where third party verification services are being used to confirm payment receipts.

Non-active webpage

Our use case requires active monetization to prevent video adverts. When a page is not active for example if the user is on another tab or application, the Web Monetization payments stop.

We are exploring the use of creating a new event called monetization-paused to handle this case in the interim, although a more native solution would be preferred.

ILP resources

We have come across some older articles and examples which are no longer supported, it would be good to have a clearer view of ideas which are no longer being pursued and things that do not work anymore.

iii. Freemitization prototype system

The first phase of work has led us to produce a prototype system, a demo of which can be viewed here: Demo Recording

iv. Finalise the freemium module and release to developers, begin design and development on redistribution of payments

Whilst the Freemium module isn’t ready to go we are confident we will have something relatively soon. We have already made progress into redistribution of payments using a smart contract to do this. We are aware of some scaling issues with this approach so will look to minimize those as we continue developing a solution.

2. Peerkat Platform

Milestone update:
[✅ Done] i. Define and develop MVP for all tiers of service, incl. Digital analytic requirements and onboard initial testers (whilst grouping them into target user groups and profiles in accordance to GDPR)
[✅ Done] ii. Collect feedback from alpha testers and fix bugs, develop additional features, work on integration with Uphold Wallet
[📋 To do] iii. Enhance user profile page (based on qual/quant data) and integrate social features
[📋 To do] iv. Optimise onboarding process to streamline user acquisition including referral mechanism
[📋 To do] v. Integrate freemium module into platform for further usability testing, add UI elements to improve UX
[📋 To do] vi. Test and implement gamification of platform with user voting
[📋 To do] vii. Develop task and reward system in app to entice continued use

i. Define and develop MVP for all tiers of service, incl. Digital analytic requirements and onboard initial testers

We set out to build a live streaming platform, and that does still remain the case, however we realised prior to starting the Grant for the Web project we would have a cold start problem i.e. no users. In order to gain users, we first partnered with the ThunderCore team that has a DApp store with 100k monthly active users. We released an alpha version of our app to this community of crypto enthusiasts.

One key part of an alpha (or beta onwards) is to gather usage data and see where things drop off. In this regard we opted for Mixpanel and Google Analytics.

Here is our Master Dashboard for the information we get from Mixpanel.

And our google analytics

While the alpha has had a good start we now need to focus on content and retention, but these will come with further development.

ii. Collect feedback from alpha testers and fix bugs, develop additional features, work on integration with Uphold Wallet

As above, with the launch we can now begin testing with alpha users and collecting data.

To start we have asked a basic question of what type of content the users would like to see more of, and here are the results:

This gives us a good steer to focus what content we look to bring into the platform sooner.

We are currently assessing the Uphold integration, which may be put on hold for a while longer as we focus on the Web Monetisation area.

3. Community and marketing

Milestone update:
[✅ Done] i. Establish partnerships with key supporters
[✅ Done 🔄 Changed] ii. Create content plan for following 6 months, release one podcast and two educational blogs
[✅ Done 🔄 Changed] iii. Run workshops for user experience, release one podcast and two educational blog
[✅ Done 🔄 Changed] iv. Collate and synthesise findings from user experience workshop and share with ecosystem by publishing findings, release one podcast and two educational blogs, plan Christmas content competition
[📋 To do 🔄 Changed] v. Run Christmas content competition, plan new year grant giveaways. Optimise content distribution channels, release one podcast and two educational blogs
[📋 To do 🔄 Changed] vi. Release one podcast and two educational blogs, distribute grant giveaways, Web Monetization webinar by Ike Iwumene
[📋 To do] vii. Release one podcast and two educational blogs, content creation & distribution webinar

i. Key supporters and partners

Prior to Grant for the Web we had already secured our main partnership with the ThunderCore Hub DApp store. This is and will continue to be a cornerstone of user adoption strategy for the foreseeable future while we iterate on the product to get to version 1.0.

We have a number of other partners and collaborators that have been involved during this process and are ongoing, these include; UCL CBT, Encode Club, Mousebelt.

Otherwise, we are continuing our outreach to more content creators, particularly in gaming and crypto to see if they would be interested in reaching a new audience. In this regard we are in early stage talks with a number of e-sport outfits to collaborate on bringing exciting new content and experiences to the platform.

Changes to objectives

Podcasts and blog content - Since writing the Grant application we decided that a better approach for our content marketing strategy would be to generate more podcasts, interviewing a greater number of grantees and guests and focus our energies on promoting that content through the various social channels rather than producing blogs. It took awhile for us to get the correct platforms set up in order to release the social media content. That’s now in full swing.

User workshops - These workshops were intended to bring a group of people in a room together to work through Web Monetization onboarding. This has proven more difficult to facilitate than anticipated and therefore got changed to focus more on the user interviews detailed in the UX report, and research gathered by the survey.

Content competitions - We had to change many of the milestones above as we missed getting the platform out in time for a christmas content competition.

Further to this we are not yet in a position to fully embrace user generated content on the platform. There are many obvious legal and regulatory headaches with allowing any content onto a site. We have been working with a team to clear some of these up, however it looks like we may not be able to achieve this competition idea in the way we envisage.

Grant Giveaways - with the above competition on hold it may also be that the grant giveaways will need to go on hold to. These were initially intended to award the competition winners for the best / top rated pieces, however we are yet to build these functionalities.

4. User Experience Research Report

Milestone update:
[✅ Done] i. Secondary research and synthesise into themes to identify gaps in knowledge for primary research of target user groups.
[🛠 In Progress] ii. Design primary research based on what we want to learn from secondary research using quantitative user feedback from MVP (survey) and qualitative (user interviews), to understand user acceptance and additional needs/features. Synthesise insight to deliver opportunities for the project team by personas.
[📋 To do] iii. Plan, design and conduct user tests for Web Monetization
[📋 To do] iv. Plan, design and conduct tests

i. Groundwork secondary research

We completed secondary research pulling together articles and reviews of the current Web Monetization system. We can add a number of works from other grantees, and will release these as part of our UX report.

ii. Design primary research based

Working with UX specialists to refine our primary user research report and we are almost ready to launch our survey. In the survey, we ask questions about the current Web Monetization ecosystem and how we can improve it.

We have secured a number of collaborators for the ux report where we will compile the best research to date and present as a graphically designed webpage.

This will become extremely useful research for the Web Monetization community and ecosystem of projects to learn from the findings. We hope it will help inform the development of the next generation of brilliant user-focused web monetized products and content. The results will be collated and published by Vivid IoV Labs at https://www.vividiov.com/ & relevant channels with the support of the Grant for the Web.

We are still in the process of defining and setting up user interviews.

Communications and marketing

Our main objective so far has been to release the podcast, with this started we can begin the content marketing campaign to amplify the posts.

In a separate series of posts I will run through our stats month by month so we can track the progress of our efforts.

What community support would benefit your project?

Four things that would be incredibly useful:

1. Contributors

Request for any contributors to "The Web Monetization UX Report"- please get in touch to register interest in contributing to our WM UX Report, community effort and contributions will be credited to the author, along with our survey results we will be collating and presenting all of the research as a public webpage.

2. Fill a survey

Filling in our UX Survey as soon as it is live - the more comprehensive study, the better this will be for the ecosystem/participants to learn and benefit from.

3. Spread the good stuff

Please like, subscribe and comment on any you watch as it'll let the algo's know we're doing good stuff and get the word out faster!

Web Monetized Link || YouTube || Anchor || Spotify

4. Be a guest

We need more podcasts guests! We are interested in talking to all of the Grant for the Web community. From looking through the Grantees list there are some amazing projects and we believe each one of you guys has something great to share. So if you would like to be on the podcast hit the "Podcast Me" button on the side of this post or sign up here

What’s next?

With the release of the podcast we now have a core of content with which we can use to leverage the various strengths of the social platforms to effectively get the word out. I will go into how we intend to do this in a deeper dive post coming soon to the forum.

Our plans for the next couple of months remain largely unchanged in that we will play catch up to hit the rest of our proposed milestones, whilst continuing to build on our momentum gained so far!

We have also begun to research how to best support the Web Monetization ecosystem going forward and have identified several issues. One of the most pressing we feel able to answer is the lack of Web Monetization service providers. As such we are in early conversations with our partners to refine this idea and should have something coming out about it soon.

Additional comments

Drop us a line on any of the above, always happy to jump on a call to help the community grow.

Hope this post was semi-coherent and somewhat easy to follow, felt like a lot of info to get across when I started 😅.

Relevant links/resources

Freemitization Demo

Web Monetization simulator
monetize
test Web Monetization

Podcast Post
"Podcast Me"
Web Monetized Link || YouTube || Anchor || Spotify

Just A Meme Podcast (First Batch)

Greg Hannam — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 14:17:19 +0000

Hi all,

We are super excited to announce the launch of our podcast Just A Meme (JAM for short) where we look at building and using better business models for the internet.

There will be more to come but here is our first season(ish) featuring many of the Grant for the Web grantees.

I'll do a brief intro below but you can find the episodes here:

Web Monetized Link || YouTube || Anchor || Spotify

Please like, subscribe and comment on any you watch as it'll let the algo's know we're doing good stuff and get the word out faster!

How you can help!

We are interested in talking to all of the Grant for the Web community. From looking through the Grantees list there are some amazing projects and we believe each one of you guys has something great to share.

So if you would like to be on the podcast hit the "Podcast Me" button on the side of this post or sign up here

Why Just A Meme

First off thought it would be good to explain the name!

One of the cofounders came up with the idea (based on the phrase it was all just a dream - the blockchain ecosystem has many ethereal qualities sometimes) and we all liked it as a nod to pop culture in tech, specifically blockchain and crypto where the meme game is especially strong.

A core component of some crypto businesses community outreach is meme generation - see Near, DeFi in general.

Meme’s also seem to have this way of making stuff a bit more light hearted and that’s what we are going for to help make it more accessible for non-crypto fan.

You can get my brief intro here to the series: Web Monetized Link / YouTube

Now for the episodes...

The Episodes To Date

Casey at Ballet Rising

First up was Casey joining us from Ballet Rising. We spoke about what the future holds for Ballet, and how people can monetize performing arts through micropayments.

All episodes here: Web Monetized Link || YouTube || Anchor || Spotify

Their Grant for the Web project is described as:

Ballet Rising
Producing Web Monetized videocasts, short films, feature articles, and interviews that showcase how global cultures are reshaping the ballet world. The performing arts, especially dance, typically rely on live, in-person audiences to showcase their work and to monetize artistic creation. Online, most performing arts groups offer their content for free. We believe that Web Monetization technology presents an opportunity to revolutionize the performing arts industry, bringing arts to broader audiences than could ever attend theatres and providing new streams of income for creators and performers.

Check out more from Casey and the team here:
Ballet Rising ► https://balletrising.com/

Will and Dulce from Immers-Space

Will and Dulce then joined us from a snowy USA. Their company, Immers Space is building a truly decentralised metaverse.

The Metaverse is a serious hot topic. While it's very early days, I believe we have some crucial design decisions needed to be made that could shape the next decades (see Ready Player One for a pessimists view).

All episodes here: Web Monetized Link || YouTube || Anchor || Spotify

Their Grant for the Web project is described as:

Immers Space: Experience the Immersive Web Together
Immers Space is helping to create the metaverse: a cross-platform and decentralized social network for the Immersive Web. It embraces open standards, enables self-ownership of data and content, and creates alternative business models for content creators that protect user privacy.

Check out more from the team here:
Immers Space ► https://web.immers.space/

Hessel from The Tribe of Noise

Next up, from the Netherlands, we had Hessel join us from The Tribe of Noise where they are trying to help independent artists to make money.

All episodes here: Web Monetized Link || YouTube || Anchor || Spotify

Their Grant for the Web project will integrate Web Monetization into the platform while leading a community discussion about how creators and users can benefit from Web Monetization tooling built on open and sustainable web standards. The PR is here.

Check out more from Hessel and the team here:
Tribe of Noise ► https://www.tribeofnoise.com/
Free Music Archive ► https://freemusicarchive.org/

Adam on building gFam Live

Adam, from 'straya (aka Australia) now based in Oregon, is the founder of gFam.live the next version of Instagram allowing creators to monetize their content in exciting new ways

All episodes here: Web Monetized Link || YouTube || Anchor || Spotify

Their Grant for the Web project builds on the platform and is described as:

Building gFam, a Web Monetization application designed for consumers to directly support creators, on a platform without advertising nor fees. Creators can post a short story of their day, their thoughts, their creative processes, their training, their adventures, or their struggles along with a selfie/photo… which can then be tipped on by their fans/friends/audience. Tips are transactions solely between the consumer and creator on posts or comments. Creators can also receive micropayments when Coil Subscribers spend time on their posts. The web application uses the XUMM payment mobile application that runs on the XRP ledger to process and settle the tip payments in real-time.

Check out more from Adam and the team here:
gfam.live ► https://gfam.live/

Andrzej from Enclave Games

A while back I spoke with Andrzej from enclave games. We had a great chat about looking at using web monetization to bring new revenue streams to indie gaming

All episodes here: Web Monetized Link || YouTube || Anchor || Spotify

You can read about their project here

Check out more from the team here:
Enclave Games ► https://enclavegames.com/
Js13k ► https://js13kgames.com/

Benny from Consistent Me

Lastly Benny swung by the recording studio (a zoom call) from Thailand. Benny's blog Consistent Me is the home of working on a New Approach to Sharing Knowledge on Websites Enabled by Web Monetization

All episodes here: Web Monetized Link || YouTube || Anchor || Spotify

Their Grant for the Web project is described as:

Building and experimenting with a new approach to sharing knowledge on the web, enabled by Web Monetization, that will allow users to have full access to a creator’s shared knowledge, paying them in a pay-as-you-use manner.

Check out more from the team here:
Benny's landing page ► https://benediktkick.com/
Benny's blog ► https://consistentme.com/

Stay Tuned

That's it for this post. As always we would love to hear from you, please do not hesitate to get in touch in the comments or message us.

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JAM session 13: Mat from MG.Social on building ad free social media business models, token launches and more

A bonus JAM episode! Mat joined us from MG.Social – an ad free social network with blockchain monetization powered by Coil and Xumm.

See the rest of our series on Web Monetization

Looking for Dev Support?

Developer support & consultancy available at Vivid IoV Labs

Freemitization — Grant Report #2 (Final)

Progress on objectives

Key activities

1. Web Monetization

2. Peerkat Platform

3. Community and marketing

4. User Experience Research Report

What community support would benefit your project?

What’s next?

Relevant links/resources

JAM session 12: Grant for the Web spending $100m to make the internet a better place!

JAM session 12: Grant for the Web spending $100m to make the internet a better place!

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The Web Monetization UX Report released by Vivid

Vivid IoV Labs are pleased to publish the Web Monetization UX Report, the research was conducted during Q1 2021 with support from Grant for the Web.

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Just A Meme Podcast (Second Batch)

The second batch of podcasts are live across YouTube, Web Monetized link, Anchor, Apple and Spotify:

JAM#8 Antonio from Kendraio

JAM#9 Uchi from AfricaHacks (and now Coil)

JAM#10 Joshua from Metagov

JAM#11 Janet and Sam from Widget

JAM #12 Grant for the Web team special

Thank you!

Web Monetization modules for revenue sharing and video ads published by Vivid IoV Labs

Freemitization – the combination of revenue sharing and freemium-style video advertising for Web Monetization – has been finalised and published by Vivid IoV Labs.

Freemitization Video Ads

Freemitization Revenue Sharing

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Freemium x Web Monetization = Freemitization!

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The Web Monetization Survey

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Freemitization — Grant Report #1

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