The Collaboration
With progress being made on both my end of a bargain and the email replies I’ve been receiving about the future of MooJooBee I am anxious for what is to come more so than ever. I’m trying to keep things quiet as to not create a shocker to everyone. But to those who are our readers, friends, and family, I would like to present to you something I am sure we can all agree on is pretty awesome.
Do you remember the proposal for contributors about this generation needing to be heard? Well, here is a sneak peek at the driving force behind it. My latest creation…
The Collaboration.
I heard that Forbes named the founder of facebook the world’s youngest billionaire at just 23 years old. Yet, he doesn’t actually earn money from the website… technically speaking. Companies are investing into his creation and very very very recently did he actually incorporate ads onto the website.
I have a chance for a low “six figure” partnership if I build this. The figure is certainly not scribed into stone, it’s more of an outlook. The ideology was rooted and watered back when I was messing around with WordPress. Might I add that WordPress is the foundation for facebook (not many know this… or even care to. lol) Facebook is 2-1/2 years old. Moojoobee is almost 4 years old and I believe my skills have grown much since “realmforums.net”… that was a tragedy. And so along came MooJooBee dot com with some people wondering what the heck it meant. What was the true meaning behind this moojoobee word? As stated from the site itself it is written like so:
MooJooBee (mōō-jōō-Bēē) is a shortened version of a word (moomoojoojoobee) that comes from two great minds working together. Ok, ok… it is a made-up word that Barbara and I created. It’s meaning is something humorous and only known by us as well. As a vow between each other we agree that the meaning will never go outside of our relationship. Though, it’s use will.
This is where I’m challenging myself because I read that last sentence and wonder what more could we possibly do to use this term? Over the past few weeks I have been spending some time with a lady in my dad’s church that comes to the house and plays dominoes, talks about her English literary classes that she teaches, and dreams with me about owning some nice big Harley’s some day. Well, I got talking to her about this word, “MooJooBee.” I slept on it a few nights ago and proceeded to do some research online to be surely amazed by one thing. I think I (and Barbara) created a real new word. What? Confused? I was shortly until I furthered my interest of this possible new word.
Wiki says: Collaboration is a structured, recursive process where two or more people work together toward a common goal—typically an intellectual endeavor[1] [2] that is creative in nature[3]—by sharing knowledge, learning and building consensus. Collaboration does not require leadership and can sometimes bring better results through decentralization and egalitarianism.[4] In particular, teams that work collaboratively can obtain greater resources, recognition and reward when facing competition for finite resources.[5]
My question is what defines this phrase, “A collaboration of two or more intellects thinking alike aside from a common goal but achieving the same result at the same time.” (there could be more to it)? That my friends is a MOOJOOBEE! AHAHAHA… *cough*
It’s a definite noun, isn’t it? Now with all that aside I want to get back on track. I have a draft beta design for a media/portal/blogger/network/community page which is more than a social network website. My idea isn’t for the 13-22 crowd that Myspace and now facebook feed upon. The idea is for the 19-29 (possibly 30’s) generation while overlapping slightly, drawing in on higher standards and intellect. Video niche sites like YouTube are fun for a while. MySpace is overly a bad performing website running on an outdated ColdFusion database which appears to be overloaded all to often. The “Oops, an error has occurred and has been forwarded to our technical team for review…” B.S. happens daily and probably to millions of other users, too. Facebook… well, I don’t know much about it, but I do know that Google should keep a very close watch on it because it just may be their biggest threat in the next 3-7 years. They’re all niche sites. Few are successful, most are ripoffs. My idea isn’t like that.
A community where young potential professionals review, report, opinionize, and collaborate on everything with every resource at their fingertips. Videos? Sure, but not as a primary focus of the site. Rating site? Absolutely not. Social network site? No, even though users will have “groups” or even “communities”, there won’t be a way to socially network your profile in a manor that would duplicate these other sites because it’s not about that. I would like to see a profile be set up for public display since you won’t be able to flood it with senseless pictures of glitter images and half naked midgets swallowing fire on Rob’s toilet. That would be a funny sight… Members would be able to leave in-house messages in a profile inbox only if you wish to receive them yourself. Along with email, the MooJooBee collaboration will sync with today’s popular email clients such as GMAIL, Hotmail, Y-Mail… so on and so forth… You’d be able to send and receive from within the site through the site, upload and download. A far fetched idea is to join with XM radio and Sirius Satellite (oh, btw, they are merging, cool huh?) so members can listen to live radio on their computers and download the songs in a quality format as they play. This would most likely require some type of subscription service with the satellite radio companies. Think about it, XM has this to offer as of now: 1-year $11.87/Month 1 Month Free*. Compare that to a typical iTunes 99c download per song deal and you’ll save a HUGE crap load of money with my idea. But will the bigwigs take it? The internet radio with satellite subscription is unlimited and free as is. So you pay a little more and get the chance to download as many songs as you want on your channel.
Oh I could go on and on. Look for me making out with my wife on the cover of Forbes… if she would have me again.
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