Kenlighten - A social network for knowledge seekers and providers
uma kane
I am writing to share with you about a unique social knowledge network
- Kenlighten http://www.kenlighten.com .
At Kenlighten you can register for a free account and create online
tutorials in your area of expertise by uploading your ebooks,
presentations, articles, videos, audio files. You can also use the
Kenlighten Presentation tool to make online presentations. Put your
price on your tutorial and earn or give it away for free. Further, you
can create online communities, network with other members and learn
from other members.
So do visit http://www.kenlighten.com and subscribe for your free
account. And yes, do not forget to invite your friends, family and
acquaintances who you think will benefit by joining Kenlighten and
being connected to you.
Regards,
Uma
Robert Maas, http://tinyurl.com/uh3t
off-topic in this newsgroup. Instead of posting it here, you should
have summarized the idea of the new service and asked (here) which
newsgroup would be appropriate for posting it, and then posted the
actual advertisement in that other newsgroup. I suspect
alt.internet.services might have been such an appropriate
newsgroup. Meanwhile, since you posted here, I'll reply here.
> From: uma kane <uma.k...@gmail.com>
> I am writing to share with you about a unique social knowledge network
> - Kenlighten http://www.kenlighten.com .
> At Kenlighten you can register for a free account and create online
> tutorials in your area of expertise by uploading your ebooks,
> presentations, articles, videos, audio files. You can also use the
> Kenlighten Presentation tool to make online presentations. Put your
> price on your tutorial and earn or give it away for free. ...
What is the procedure for enforcing that people have to pay for
posted content, if the author chooses to "earn" rather than "give
it away"? How does the "earn" option compare with how
http://TinyURL.Com/NewEco will do contract work?
> So do visit http://www.kenlighten.com and subscribe for your free
> account. ...
OK, I went there, found a login form and a new-account form, and
link to TOS:
File that you are currently viewing
Linkname: Terms of Use
URL: http://www.kenlighten.com/terms.php
The following is prohibited:
* use automated scripts to collect information from or otherwise
interact with the Service or the Site;
This means, among other things, that if you don't like their
navigation and prefer to write your own semi-automated client-side
navigation script, that's forbidden. http://TinyURL.Com/NewEco by
comparison doesn't prohibit automated client-side scripts, it
merely charges labor time for each server-side script-run,
typically about 10 milliseconds each, limited to 100 ms worst case,
and requires you to replenish your labor account from time to time
by providing a service in return, so if you run an automated
client-side script that performs hundreds or thousands of
server-side script-runs in a batch you will probably exhaust your
account balance in the middle of a script and be denied access
until you manually provide a service. But if you are willing to
provide several minutes of service in advance to build up your
account balance, you then would be allowed to run a script that
visits tens of thousands of NewEco's pages without interruption. I
don't prohibit client-side scripts. I just want equal labor in
return, to protect my site against spambotnets who might try to
flood my site with **hundreds**of**millions** of consecutive
service requests and do *nothing* of value in return.
Also prohibited:
register for more than one User account, register for a User
account on behalf of an individual other than yourself, or register
for a User account on behalf of any group or entity;
http://TinyURL.Com/NewEco doesn't prohibit this either. I don't
really care if you create ten different accounts, perhaps to better
manage ten different services you use, to keep them separate from
each other. Of course since labor credits are accounted separately
on each account, labor you perform on one account can't be
transferred to another account, so it's probably better for you to
do everything under one account to avoid fragmenting your credits
and having some of your accounts exhaust their credit at a critical
time.
Also prohibited:
* impersonate any person or entity, or falsely state or otherwise
misrepresent yourself, your age or your affiliation with any person
or entity;
http://TinyURL.Com/NewEco doesn't even maintain information about
who you really are, all accounts are by default essentially
anonymous (except for IP number and timestamp which can be tracked
back through the client-side ISP in case of any attempted criminal
activity) so this point is moot. However, I do plan to provide a
way to identify yourself by posting your photo and links to other
people who are real-life acquaintances of you, such that each
person testifies as to the correct photo and name of each such
linked acquaintance. Thus if there is a chain of such links from
one person to another, each can reasonably trust the photo and name
posted by the other person. I fully expect each user to maintain
two accounts, one anonymous account for most purposes, and ane
account which is part of the real-life acquaintance-link network,
for other purposes such as romantic matchmaking. Since the LinkII
service will *not* show you anyone's photo+name etc. unless and
until you are also a member of LinkII and there's a chain of links
from you to that person, it will be virtually impossible to
impersonate somebody undetected, and all discovered impersonations
will promptly result in discovery of a *known* person who has
falsely linked to a bogus person, allowing that *known* person to
be prosecuted and/or sued for any fraud that gets committed by the
fake persona.
How do you intend to detect fake personals on your system and
thereby protect your other users from what the fake personas do on
your system or elsewhere after getting introduced through your
system?