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  • 01:46:40 am on May 16, 2008 | # |
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    Just finished listening to these awesome Ischool presentations: NUJJ

    I. -What is a location -based service for mobile device users?

    Chart of different types of interactions

    Synchronous Asynchronous

    Face to face communication Flyers, fridge magnets
    Graffiti, historical plaques

    II. Local questions and answers

    You want to eliminate time sensitive questions

    III. Travel Planner

    -There are a lot of things you might do to prepare for a trip. It doesn’t really make sense to leave those notes in backpack. What if you could leave yourself a note at the entrance to the louvered, a personal note you wrote for yourself, and a travelogue that is location sensitive? It will be delivered right to your mobile service as you arrive.

    IV. Recommendation service

    -You can leave notes to people who care about it. You get it at the spot where it helps.

    V. Lost & found

    1. Allows user to tie locations to their notes and allows for location patterns
    2. Users may only retrieve public notes from their phones.

    DEMO

    NUJJ refers to a service they describe which is platform agnostic.

    They are using the iphone to demo.

    One of the main problems of the application is scarcity.

    When a user sends out a message it goes out through the twitter stream. NUJJ has a special database that stores all event date. It sends out a query for all nudge data.

    Uses

    Trusted superusers
    Better question classification for local Q&A
    Etc

    VI. Questions

    Is this geo-located twitter? Is this all within network? Can my parents see what I’m doing without being a member?

    Security

    Scarcity and having an ability to filter.
    Requiring it to be social to begin with will be flawed because of the scarcity issues. Delicious works because it benefits me first and there’s a byproduct of helping others. You can’t be all things to all people. Do you find yourself go towards a certain direction?

    Buy Music, Make Money

    I want a song

    Option 1
    Itunes..
    Price $1
    But the song’s under lock and key

    Option 2
    The pirate bay…
    Price $0
    Might feel guild, might need a lawyer
    It’s a no brainer
    Copy music for friends and earn social incentives, for free.

    Current Fixes?

    Existing approaches to fix theses incompatible incentives:
    So-called affiliate models. Think Tupperware.

    Good: Buyer has a steak in how well a song does. It’s nagging.

    Where else can we see economic incentives out in the wild?

    Social incentives to be ahead of the curve: Be cool.
    Financial incentives: Make a killing on Wall Street.
    It’s the same curve as the sale of music.

    They wanted to buy a store that…

    rewards fan for buying the music they love: an incentive to buy legally.

    Appeals to trendsspotters and trendsetters. Give fame in addition to fortune.

    Gives buyers a sense of urgency

    And encourage buyers to be promoters.

    They designed a store where…
    1. a song is sold.

    2. part of the revenue comes from promotion of that song

    Allocating the dollar

    50 cent to the artist/music label
    50 cent goes to all previous buyers

    we want to give early buyers a cut.

    You can make sure that once you buy a song you can keep that cut size. Your income growth is linear.

    Example:

    A new song just came out. Say you’re the 5th person to buy it, so you get the 5th largest slice, which is below a 20th of a cent. It will be 50 cents after 1,000 sales, $5 after 10,000 sales; $50 after 100,000 sales.

    Make your dollar back after 235,000 copies sold. etc.

    How does this compare to a baseline model?

    Baseline is Itunes, Amazon etc.
    Their model has a network effect.

    More value for buyers wit more buyers.
    There is a social effect.
    Tremendous potential value over baseline for good trendspotters.
    There’s fame and fortune for someone who’s good at this.

    What we built:

    Designed to address the usability of such a model?

    Can we make this experience compelling and very simple to use.
    Is this model economically feasible? Is the allocation model adjustable to create incentives. What’s the optimal solution.

    We did this so can easily test things.

    Separation of data, business logic, presentation

    Data model - swappable SqLite “stores”

    Logic - cut allocation engine

    we can swap the allocator and the allocation function.
    if we don’t want to allocate things for music anymore you can allocate slices for this engine and it still works for major changes.

    Economic feasibility and simulation framework

    Simulator
    -works on an actual store instance

    Agents

    simulated customers
    decision-making modules

    Challenges

    performance issues with Django implementation
    Useful framework during next steps

    User interface

    user-driven design

    we conducted competitive analysis
    prototype tests

    Key questions:

    Do they get it?
    Does it work well?

    A store should be fun to explore

    Portal page

    on left, column of new songs
    middle section, songs selling well
    right column has social layer. they show the people who perform best and give them some visibility on the site.

    Page for one song

    description of song, amount, if you buy this song now and performance on the site.

    There is no way to compare how a song is doing on the site
    they experimented with showing the trend of a song. They did a performance indicator using line graphs to make sense of the numbers. When you’re dealing with the small numbers people have a difficult time imaging what it means and what it means over time.

    Break-even point. Buy now and get 0.0475 cents per future copy sold.

    Ex. bipod. They didn’t market it as a four-inch box, they said 10,000 songs in your pocket.

    The Future

    They think they found a way to align the incentives they talked about
    A mode that benefits all stakeholders
    A marketplace where new music is discovered and takes off.

    It encourages legal buying and discourages illegal music sharing and piracy.

    The project started as a page on a notebook.

    they received some feed investment and will make it a startup and launch it as product.

    micro payments
    08:00
    and incentives for news
    08:34
    they are incentivizing jumping on board and taking a risk on music in this case
    it’s a crowd-sourcing model monetizing music
    09:05
    why not news?

    Question and answer

    Music has people can set trends and they are interested in having the economic model flushing out these people with disproportionate influence.

    MD Notes:

    One application that supports multiple points of entry.

    Doctor’s information management
    Hospitals are information rich environment. They are only focused on note capture and retrieval

    They built a mySql database

    Request/response to MD:Notes (PHP), my SQL database (emulates EMR)

    patient modeled in XML
    Schema to map force HL7, mapping transform

    It’s driven by the schedule when someone logins.
    They have different inpatient settings and the services that are available in the hospital. They are ordered in level of acuity.

    once you get the patient level is when you start presenting the patient as xml

    One of the reasons we’re using xml is that we need to be able to have the present not just live in our system but interact with automatic hospital system

    A healthcare messaging standard for system interoperability
    Must be ale to send progress notes fro the EMRI

    Future Work

    integration
    templates
    security
    extending the patient model
    supporting model devices

    Questions:

    It’s a web application
    Why didn’t you look to some kind of mobile application to begin with. They built a voice-prototype and mobile application.

    The possibility of a threaded conversation between doctors. Will there be an ability to comment or thread.

     

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