The website looks nice but is a bit vague on how it is supposed to work. Nevertheless, competiton is good.

yep, however the main website is http://www.synereo.com/ and their blog is https://blog.synereo.com you will find all the information you will need there.

then again there is http://www.synereo.com/learn-more/

@wekkel, Ripple says Blockchain is too slow for banks, read our take on it > https://steemit.com/steemit/@blockrush/blockchain-too-slow-for-banks-ripple-blockrush

I'm pretty sure it's no Steem killer. Steem has already been proven and established itself.

Synereo has the ecomomics right, but it approaches the problem from an entirely different angle. Steem is an whole new ecosystem of it's own, while Synereo acts more like a layer on top of existing ecosystems. In fact, Synereo and Steem could be a powerful thing used in combination!

About self-voting; Dan acnowledged the fact that you can't stop self-voting if you can't prove individuality. People can just create two accounts and vote for themselves. Thus, self-voting was taken into account in designing the ecomomics of Steem. I'm pretty sure that's the case with Synereo too, as they are incredibly smart people.

A factor in favor of Steem is that it organically shows up in search engine results. That is a powerful marketing strategy and is only starting to show it's power. The execution was also very fast in the beginning, and Steem already has quite some ecosystem of development and applications.

I'm invested in Synereo, and beleive in their ability to make it work. There will be space for even more such networks, because it's not a zero-sum game.

Nice article. Thanks!

Good points @idealist!

Agreed. I waited forever for Synereo to finally release a product. And when they finally did, it was a piece of junk. I do hope they improve it in the future so there are more decentralized social platforms out there.

Surely the alpha and beta user experiences are crap, but I beleive in the underlying economic model. The fact that the UX sucks gives the people who can see the fundamentals some advantage, which will be gone once the UX is awesome :-)

True. The part that just annoyed me was the hype and the limitations on what services you can use it on for now. I think it's just youtube right now?

@financialcritic, can you please let know of your comment on our post which is in response to Ripple's comments about Blockchain being too slow or banks? > https://steemit.com/steemit/@blockrush/blockchain-too-slow-for-banks-ripple-blockrush

Done!

IDK, just sounds like a less elegant version of the Steemit system. The last thing I personally want is any "Affiliate link" based versions of the Steem concept. The best part about Steem is how there aren't any affiliate links or commissions, which we already saw fail in the case of TSO.

With TSO, we saw the platform collapse under the weight of affiliate link spamming.. why will Wildspark be any different?

@heymattsokol, good point about having to carry around an affiliate link, however they could cloack it with a short link or even with not visible link.

However when it comes to affiliate marketing there are millions of people who love it. Just check how all Facebook group are full of it. Amazon, Click Bank and Google thrive on affiliate marketing. Who would not want to share their potential multi-millionaire viral affiliate link of Justin Bieber's new album, or the next Harry Potter?

Finally, affiliate marketing is not only another way to monetize the platform, like Steemit the main way would be to be the original content creator and not the promoter.

@heymattsokol, please tell us what you think of our response to Ripple's comment about Blockchain being too slow for banks > https://steemit.com/steemit/@blockrush/blockchain-too-slow-for-banks-ripple-blockrush

Wild Spark is targeted to independent journalists, artists and bloggers, something which seem missing on Steemit. Steemit just seem to be an alt-social media platform for cyberpunks and get rich quick dreamers

This statement seriously underestimates and misunderstands what steem and steemit are.

Synereo has a taste for beautiful and responsive interfaces meaning the interface of WildSpark would be better than that of Steemit in terms of design and accessibility of functions. Average users will be drawn to the intuitive and beautiful of Wild Spark than Steemit, whose interface seems too classic for modern social media.

Steemit is one app within the steem economy. Steem and steemit's beauty are in it's utility, free tx's, community, growth, consensus mechanism, ability to scale, proven tech...... I could go on :) Wild Spark, as far as I can tell, does not offer a fraction of this and is reliant on existing platforms rather than it's own merits.

Steemit lacks management and often relies on the voluntary efforts of members to manage it. Products such as @SteemitBoard, @Smarkdown.kitty, @screename, @bestof and @cheetah are all initiatives of voluntary Steemians.

The steem economy's incentive structure is such that hundreds of entrepreneurs, developers and investors are building for it.....it is viral. This is a strength, not a weakness. Although Steemit.inc are doing the majority of the core development, that could change over time......steem has a built in mechanism for managing evolution and it has proven to be extremely effective, DPOS and witnesses.

Wild Spark's business appeal could attract investors and top executives to make it become a full fledged mainstream social media, giving it a more professional structure than the casually voluntary development structure of Steemit.

It's all well and good to attract businesses and investment, but if your product is not as good as the competition, network effect will most likely kill it off and you'll be building an empty room.

Steemit is becoming too difficult for newbies/minnows and Steem Power has ensured that only whales win, whereas on Wild Spark everyone will have equal opportunity to make it.

I'm sure you didn't mean it but that was rather patronising! :) There is a learning curve involved in any new technology, certainly with something as unique and versatile as steem. If you think only whales have benefited, then you haven't really looked at what is going on. Tell that to the thousands of Indonesian, Venezuelan, South American and African Steemians. Tell that to anyone with aspirations of publishing. Tell that to the flourishing artist and photographic Steemians. Tell that to everyone who got paid to do what they were doing on other social media platforms for free. Tell that to the rapidly increasing steem distribution. Tell that to anyone who was looking for somewhere to publish that could not be censored.

Wild Spark could have a better marketing campaign than Steemit, which has absolutely no marketing campaign.

Good for Wild Spark. To say that Steem has no marketing is again to misunderstand the viral and organic growth it is experiencing today. There are many community efforts to market steem and it's capabilities, I'm running one myself called Giving Steem. If you mean marketing coming from Steemit.inc, they are doing some things.....however, I hope they will do more soon. I suspect they are working on something monumental for when Steemit leave beta shortly.

There seem to be no support for self upvoting on WildSpark, meaning users focus more on upvoting the contents of others as compared to the selfish culture of self upvoting on Steemit!

Self upvoting is an artifact of the incentive structure and though it will likely always be present, it can be moderated through adjustments to the reward algos or by the evolving culture within the community.

Steemit's main founder @Dan is now consumed with work on EOS, his new ambitious project that stuck both Gold and lightning, meaning Steemit is loosing the attention of its primary visionary.

Steem nor steemit need dan to be able to develop. He has left steem in very capable hands whilst he continues, as he must, as he should, with building out the tools we all need to secure life, liberty and property for all.

I hope my feedback is of some use. I welcome competition, however, as it stands, I don't believe Wild Spark represents competition to Steem at all.

Based respsonse.
I am not as well versed in Steemit, it's economy and potential, but intuitively had similar thoughts.

Thanks for sharing!

We like the way to addressed most of the concerns we raised @benjojo! However we believe that Wild Spark really has the potential to take away lots of users from Steemit.

Part of the reasons why most users prefer social media over conventional forum sites is because of the simplistic users interface and Wild Spark could beat Steemit in that context.

When we say Steemit is becoming difficult for new minnow, we mean it. The evidence is clear and obvious as there are countless Steemian minnow support programs there are. Infact, most newbies even take advantage of this and create posts promising that they will help and reward all newbies who upvote and follow them!

Then again when it comes to organization and management, have you noticed what happened to blackheart and forum.digitalpoint.com? These are great but without strong corporate management they become some kind of darksite for spammers.

The Steemit concept of "get rich by posting" has drawn in so many spammer to produce low quality content to Steemit mainly through plagiarism as people simple copy and paste anything from anywhere and do actually get paid for it. There is no double that @cheetah may be the hottest bot on the net right now. However on Wild Spark things could be different as the Wild Spark is themed to be a main Stream social media network and Synereo could actively work to get journalists, artists and blogger to join through marketing strategies - eventually getting originality content creators to the network and hence promoting quality original content.

Then again when it come to @Dan leaving Steemit, seriously it is not good. All the successful ventures we know of including Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook and Ethereum thrive on their founders. Even in the case of Bitcoins, it was the early co-founder who kept it alive, not the last generation corporate giant who got involved after Bitcoin became digital Gold!

Despite these reason, there is not evidence to prove that Steemit is going down to Wild Spark, however it would be good if Steemiams, particularly whales and developers would note the challenges facing Steemit and help Steemit Inc make Steemit what it should be.

I believe Synero's current proposition is nothing new and affiliate marketing will not produce the quality content you think it will. Affiliate marketing is something that steem could implement if it chose too.

There is already quality in abundance and as understanding and culture begins to change, with steem becoming more distributed, it will only increase over time.

You must be one hardcore Steemian @benjojo! #SteemitForever!

Lol! I certainly am. I don't think anyone would argue that steem and steemit is a first. Social media on a blockchain at the heart of a rapidly expanding social media economy with it's own social media value network. It has done incredibly well and it's utility in the blockchain space is virtually unparalleled. Not so easy to brush aside I would think. Though I wish Synereo the best of luck. Rather than trying to win the race for riches, if we concentrate on building systems with integrity because of what will change for human being the world over and because of the legacy we will leave, then competition will only speed up the process.

Well put Ben! Personally, I have to see this WildSpark thing and play with it first hand to assess it... too much snake oil exists in the space right now to really tell what a project or product is without actually using it.

Thankfully with Steem, that's easy to do. :)

@robrigo, can you tell us your comment on our response to Ripple's comment about Blockchain being too slow for banks? > https://steemit.com/steemit/@blockrush/blockchain-too-slow-for-banks-ripple-blockrush

And here I was about to send you this link. Ya bastard, already on top of it . . .

"He has left steem in very capable hands whilst he continues, as he must, as he should, with building out the tools we all need to secure life, liberty and property for all."

>with building out the tools we all need to secure life, liberty and property for all.

Do you really believe that ?

I wouldn't have said it if I didn't. His innovations are possibly the difference between mass adoption and no mass adoption, evolution and stasis, robust integrity and quasi integrity.

What do you believe?

I believe if stinc doesn't hire competent UX/UI and branding and marketing people, it won't matter HOW good the tech is.

When your homepage to the Joe Public global user says "Welcome to the Block Chain" in 100px high letters and not "Hello, warm greetings to the worlds best new social platform that can pay you to be awesome" or some kind of actual user friendly non-developer authored MESSAGE, we might have a shot in the dark and not a minute sooner. "beta for life, yo" is not an answer. (and the home page is only a snowflake on this ugly iceberg to which I'm sold out and committing 100% of my otherwise fairly valuable time)

Really liked the basics of the system built here, however, as the initial sparks and "WOW" factors die down I have began to notice things.... bad things. It does seem WildSpark plans to address these issues in a positive, proactive manner.

Steemit....
If We Could Just Do Something About It's Configurations Which Favour the "Royal" and Bury the "Plebs"....
Not to say there are not thousands and thousands of decent, ethical, moral folks doing good things within the system.
Yet IS to say there are many who are taking advantage of it's flaws (and the flaws seem not to be addressed; not only not addressed, encouraged and strengthened with the recent Hardfork/unrestricted self-upvoting/abuse of flagging/lack of any fail-safes to prevent bots from abusing ALL of us for the advantage of one [it's owner/etc.]).
Here's my example/explanation - and remember, these tactics will only work if the Accounts are Whales (seemingly the only REAL reason to invest any money in the steemit system as it stands, as the underlying goal of these tactics is to stock and then drain the rewards pool filled by those investing/not using these tactics).
Modelled after following and observing the Whale @craig-grant for less than a week (the Network is strong in this one.....).
BUYER BEWARE
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So I can sleep tonight
Despite what I've seen today.
I found you guilty of a crime, of sleeping at a time
When you should have been wide awake."
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Interesting. But a Steemit Killer?

A different concept all together. With view of investment, advertising, reward distribution and content creation.

Instead of laboring every point, as some have been addressed in other comments, these thoughts are about content.

The principle of link sharing. Does Wild Park see itself as an aggregator or existing content on different platforms rather than a original content creator?

Is it not likely that this concept will attract all those people who are merely copy/pasting other people's content to make a quick buck?

Content Content Content

Steemit's emphasis is on original content creation in any genre imaginable.
Wild Park, with its link affiliation, invites to share Other People's content, rather than creating original work. How does this par with copyright laws?

I don't see Wild Park as a competitor but as a complimentary external platform. Why not promote one's own content elsewhere?

One last thought. I am reluctant to use or promote main stream platforms such as FB, YT, Twitter etc. These monopolies have become politicised beyond value-add.

Thanks for reading. 😎

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Good thinking @robocop!

however do not miss the fact that everyone could be a content creator on Wild Spark - no one is restricted to only promoting content.

Oh yes, agreed. My point is that non-original content creators will be drawn to the platform in swarms, while Steemit frowns upon copy/paste or no value-add link submissions.

I think Wild-Park may well co-exist nicely with Steemit.

Oh, it's globocop - not robocop. Not so much into transhumanism... 🤖

ch @globocop

haha @globocop, well noted!

@globocop, tell us of your opinion on our response to Ripple's comment about Blockchain being too slow for banks > https://steemit.com/steemit/@blockrush/blockchain-too-slow-for-banks-ripple-blockrush

Here are my unconventional thoughts:
https://steemit.com/steemit/@blockrush/blockchain-too-slow-for-banks-ripple-blockrush#@globocop/re-blockrush-blockchain-too-slow-for-banks-ripple-blockrush-20170708t155416202z

ch @globocop

That's WildSpark.

Wild-park is the sub-network of NSFW content ;)

A little competition is actually a great thing, to be honest! Steemit is still in development and so they can also improve their user interface and add new features. I guess we don't need @Dan for that to happen.
In the end, the community of the platform needs to decide and right until now I've got the feeling, that this community is the greatest I ever met. So I wouldn't be to afraid about this (:

thanks @cobalus. a little competition might encourage Steemit to evolve.

@cobalus, please tell use your comments about your opinion on our response to Ripple's comment about Blockchain being too slow for banks > https://steemit.com/steemit/@blockrush/blockchain-too-slow-for-banks-ripple-blockrush

I just did, enjoy the comment (:

thanks @cobalus! stay tuned for another intriguing report tomorrow!

I'm looking forward to it (:

The one thing i foresee with wildspark will be the mad rush, gold grabbing mentality, like those we see on steemit. Wildspark doesnt seem to have a solution for the spammers with low value content. But i would definitely say that wildspark value proposition has the potential to uproot steemit.

Whatever the strength of steemit can turn into a weakness. On the contrary, wildsparks strengths can also become its weakness.

Whether wildspark or steemit will prevail, its all down to the execution!

You are right @dali.soh! Time will tell us more!

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Thank you for this article!

@paul.atreides, you should check this > https://steemit.com/steemit/@blockrush/blockchain-too-slow-for-banks-ripple-blockrush

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I wrote a post about why it won't: https://steemit.com/steemit/@crypto.girl/why-wildspark-won-t-be-a-steemit-killer

Read your response, @crypto.girl. @BlockRush is not here to scare anyone off Steemit, we are just reporting on a potentially worthy competitor to Steemit. #SteemitForever!

@crypto.girl, what is your take of our *response to Ripple's comment about Blockchain not being fit for banks? > https://steemit.com/steemit/@blockrush/blockchain-too-slow-for-banks-ripple-blockrush

"The Year 2017 has seen Blockchain technology threaten to overcome major industries including finance, communication and social media."

Please do not with the vague, general, comically extreme overstatements.

Nobody even has numbers for the combined value of those three astronomical-sums-of-money industries (with whatever other valuations are vaguely gerondingly "including" in that statement), or if they do, cryptocurrency market capitalization isn't even an infant fart next to them.

All that said, I'll explore the proposed technology.

@earthbound, you would love this > https://steemit.com/steemit/@blockrush/blockchain-too-slow-for-banks-ripple-blockrush

I'm bookmarking that. Meanwhile, I've investigated Wildspark, and I'm in. Too late for the beta at the start of this month, apparently :/

In particular, the posts at the Synereo blog are lucid and compelling.

Is there any way you can arrange a beta invite? :) Pick a private channel and I'll give you my email, and sign anything you want against my PGP key: https://steemit.com/pgp/@earthbound/my-public-pgp-key

I can imagine success for AMP and STEEM.

I wouldn't say Dan's focusing on newer projects would hurt steemit too much - that's just the way he operates, he moves on to new projects sort of prematurely

thanks for the comment @josephd, would you minding telling our your comments on our proposal about how a Blockchain powered internet could resolve net neutrality while making the internet free for everyone? > https://steemit.com/steemit/@blockrush/how-steemit-inspired-free-internet-can-resolve-net-neutrality-blockrush

I found this article from 9 months ago!

https://steemit.com/life/@jpiper20/anyone-invested-or-interested-in-amp-synereo-please-read-possible-stolen-bitcoin

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Wildspark has A LOT to prove. Wildspark looks extremely user friendly, simple, and FAST. I haven't heard any beta users say anything bad about it. The user base is growing fast. The potential growth is just HUGE. In a few more weeks everyone will be able to see for themselves whether this simple browser extension really is the "Facebook killer" or "steemit killer".

Actually, it's @smackdown.kitty =) But thanks for the mention!

thanks for the correction @the-ego-is-you, the article has been amended!

@the-ego-is-you, would you mind reading our proposal about how a steemit powered powered blockchain could make the internet free while also resolving net neutrality? > https://steemit.com/steemit/@blockrush/how-steemit-inspired-free-internet-can-resolve-net-neutrality-blockrush

I read it and upvoted =)

We have many of the same ideas. You're welcome to join us in the Cooperative Agorism channel on Steemit.chat if you want to talk about similar concepts or link your posts there. =)