Comments on: The Next Big Thing? http://www.markstaples.com/2009/08/26/the-next-big-thing/ Ruminations and observations about software, technology, and beer. Wed, 23 Nov 2011 04:32:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mark http://www.markstaples.com/2009/08/26/the-next-big-thing/comment-page-1/#comment-15261 Mark Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:50:09 +0000 http://www.markstaples.com/?p=118#comment-15261 I also think citemine is an exciting idea! I'm happy to forgive bugs in a "very beta" site - and I trust that because you've released early, that you'll release often! My questions about citemine are just that - questions. I'm not sure if being a zero-sum game is necessarily bad, and I'm not sure if being a pyramid/ponzi scheme is necessarily bad either. (Of course perhaps citemine is neither!) <a href="http://limingzhu.posterous.com/a-research-paper-ponzi-scheme" rel="nofollow">Liming is hoping</a> maybe it is a ponzi scheme and that he can get in early on it. :-) I like playing games, but when I'm learning to play a new game, I want to understand the ramifications of the ruleset. I also think citemine is an exciting idea! I’m happy to forgive bugs in a “very beta” site – and I trust that because you’ve released early, that you’ll release often!

My questions about citemine are just that – questions. I’m not sure if being a zero-sum game is necessarily bad, and I’m not sure if being a pyramid/ponzi scheme is necessarily bad either. (Of course perhaps citemine is neither!) Liming is hoping maybe it is a ponzi scheme and that he can get in early on it. :-)

I like playing games, but when I’m learning to play a new game, I want to understand the ramifications of the ruleset.

]]> By: Ricky http://www.markstaples.com/2009/08/26/the-next-big-thing/comment-page-1/#comment-15260 Ricky Wed, 26 Aug 2009 04:55:24 +0000 http://www.markstaples.com/?p=118#comment-15260 Hey Mark, thanks for blogging about Citemine. You're right, there are bugs, and many important features lacking. We're working on improving the site, and also formally proving some of the properties of this particular market (e.g., the "truthfulness" of the mechanism, in mechanism design parlance), and answering some of the questions you've posed. What's exciting for us is the excitement that scientists who are familiar with Citemine have expressed about the underlying idea. We've got to work a bit harder on the execution side, obviously. Hey Mark, thanks for blogging about Citemine. You’re right, there are bugs, and many important features lacking. We’re working on improving the site, and also formally proving some of the properties of this particular market (e.g., the “truthfulness” of the mechanism, in mechanism design parlance), and answering some of the questions you’ve posed. What’s exciting for us is the excitement that scientists who are familiar with Citemine have expressed about the underlying idea. We’ve got to work a bit harder on the execution side, obviously.

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