Ned's Dead Project?

I want to thank @dr-frankenstein for the heads up on this.

Do you recall when @ned mentioned that he had a vision for another interface? This was going to be one that really took the industry by storm. Sadly, due to the circumstances with Steemit Inc, it appears that project is dead.

There were a couple of filings that, perhaps, give us some insight.

Providing a website featuring technology that enables users to earn points for posting content; computer services, namely, providing customized on-line web pages and data feeds featuring user-defined information, which includes blog posts, new media content, other on-line content, and on-line web links to other websites, and providing a search engine based on natural language queries on a global computer network;

https://trademarks.justia.com/881/40/gather-88140720.html

https://trademarks.justia.com/881/40/gather-88140722.html

The project appears to be called Gather. Both the website and the wallet are now trademarked. It looks like Steemit Inc is the current trademark owner.

This was obviously something that was started months ago by the filing dates.

So was Gather the project that Ned talked about before the financial situation with Steemit Inc came to light? Looking at the trademark filings, it makes sense. The timing certainly lines up.

It appears from the discussions on some of the Discord shows that they are going to focus resources to Steemit.com to improve that sight. Will it include some of what Ned was envisioning with Gather? Or is that idea totally dead?

Then again, this could be for something totally different although the description does read like it is for a social media interface with cryptocurrency integration.

What are your thoughts?

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