The Social Venture
Commons
Empowering peer-production of the world we want.
★http://svcommons.com
➡http://shldlss.com
➡http://thread.io
Wednesday, March 25, 2009

the Social Venture Commons
Initiated November 18th, 2009
Launched thread.io March 23rd, 2009
Developing a new system for distributed
collaboration and collective intelligence
Partnering with public benefit catalysts to:
iteratively develop practical applications
implement developed applications that amplify their impact
Raising $1m to build capacity and scale system
Empowering peer-production of the world we want
Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Contributing Team
Core team
Michael Lewkowitz, Igniter (startup/vc ‘s ocial-xyz’ guy)
Joseph Dee, Architecture (web science, agency, social techie)
Dan Williams, Developer (hard core craftsman coder)
Key contributors
Matt Nish-Lapidus, Interface (UX specialist)
Peter Flaschner, Design (Web dev and design awesomesauce)
Ryan Coleman, Communications (Startup, community, and viz)
Taylor Davidson, Strategy (Mobile, investment, startup guy)
Tim Scollick, Developer (Interface developer)
Guidance and
Encouragement
Wednesday, March 25, 2009

The current context
Reach
Globally
Change
Do With
More Less
Makers
Act
Locally
A public benefit pressure-cooker.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Emerging Potential
Dynamic
Innovation
Social Pub
Web li
Me c M ic
???
s s a ro -
ge s
Mass
A new foundation for:
Distributed Mobilization
Change Do Stuff
Makers #darkTO (shelter)
Collaboration #mumbai (disaster)
#TweetupHeatup (clothing)
s
-le s
Freeform
People on
is s i p at io n
m
Pe r rt ic i
Fundraising
Seeking Pa
Meaning #hohoto ($25k + 2t food in 18d)
#daneila ($16k in 1wk)
#t westival ($250k)
...and collective intelligence.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Essential Elements
Account Public Micro-message
• unique • unrestricted • sms compatible
• verified accessibility (4B subscribers)
@Igniter: Working on #svc preso: http://thr.io/svc
In-line tagging Links
• links objects by topic • link to ANY online object
• permission-less participation • weaves threads through web
• threads any place you type
Public micro-messages and permission-less participation.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Re-orienting the Web
Contextual
Search
•Public Web
...@Account...
•Walled Gardens
...#Topic...
•Local Data
...http://Object...
Aggregation
Contextually
rich threads
Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Presencing threads + objects
...@Account...
Presence:
Being aware of - and
communicating with -
that which
surrounds you.
...#Topic... ...http://Object...
“Presence is the new dial-tone”
Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Related Spaces
Crowd-sourced collaboration Public Micro-messages
Core
Distinctions:
+ platform independence
+ human pre-filtering
+ permission-less
participation
+ focused on public
benefit
Search
We are: “Threading Twitter... Weaving the Web”
Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Related Activity
Public updates and the Twitter phenomenon
Twitter growing 1382% per year
Facebook opens up status updates (175m users)
Pierre Omidyar starting up Ginx (Twitter links application)
Foundations and public-benefit organizations
embracing the ‘s ocial-web’
1.6M non-profits in North America
5th largest sector in the world, employing 4.5% of the
population
“A profound shift in the way we engage the public”
“New opportunities to ser ve the community”
Wednesday, March 25, 2009

The Social Venture
Commons
Michael Lewkowitz
michael@svcommons.com
http://svcommons.com
519.200.3034
@igniter
Wednesday, March 25, 2009