Come ye all into the Frogansphere. Let the adventure begin. Frankly, what’s in it for me, the candy-maker, the baker, the man on the street?
To describe your role in the Frogansphere let’s start with STG Interactive’s limited role.
Imagine a community where everyone is welcome to visit (sounds too good to be true). It resembles the Web in that way, and from the end-user’s point of view that’s how we can look at the Frogansphere.
Imagine you want to build a house, a business, set up an association in that community. In the Frogansphere you’re free to do anything (legal) that you like. You can invite as many people as you like, and be as big, small, crazy, conservative, cool, ugly, even as lucrative as you like. You simply need a special address so that the rest of us can find you. That’s the frogans address that you register with STG Interactive. The subscription rate is the same for everybody ($12 per year, $20 for two, plus taxes where applicable, by the way).
The community, the Frogansphere, is built on the Internet. STG Interactive provides the elementary tools at no charge and makes sure that the point of entry stays open to visitors by operating the Main Frogans Network and by making the (free) Frogans Player available to everyone. As a content provider you create frogans of your own and register one or more frogans addresses so that Frogans Player users can marvel at the amazing things that you’ve done.
To be more specific:
What does STG Interactive do?
STG Interactive creates Frogans Technology which is made up of:
- FSDL (Frogans Slide Description Language) for authoring frogans
- The Frogans Player for visiting, displaying and navigating frogans
- FNSL (Frogans Network System Language) for creating frogans networks.
STG Interactive operates the MFN (Main Frogans Network).
- With the Frogans Player anybody can access a frogans on the MFN.
- Anybody who has registered at least one frogans address with STG Interactive can publish a frogans on the MFN.
STG Interactive has set up a frogans address registration affiliation program
- Operated through the Commission Junction platform this program offers commissions on frogans address registrations actuated by affiliates.
What does STG Interactive not do?
(You might think of the following as a list of frogans-biz opportunities ripening on the vine.)
STG Interactive does not create frogans
- Sure, we may do a few demos, but that’s just to help get the ball rolling for everyone else. STG Interactive provides the framework, but not the content. That’s for you to do.
STG Interactive does not publish frogans authoring tools
- We’ll be putting a frogans creation tool online with limited functionality fairly soon: the Frogans Start Service. But again, this is just to get the ball rolling. We’d much prefer that others take the torch. It’s just not our line of work. We’ll do our best to see that software developers have the resources they need for making tools that help the rest of us make frogans.
STG Interactive does not determine the content of your frogans
- Use your frogans to say whatever you want (within the laws of your country). We don’t oblige you to put ads, or anything else in your frogans. Your frogans content is your responsibility and your right, so go crazy.
STG Interactive does not host frogans
- You register your frogans address with STG Interactive, but where you host you frogans is entirely up to you.
STG Interactive does not publish FSDL user guides
- We publish the FSDL Specifications to be as complete and as accurate as possible. Anybody who wants to publish more intuitive explanations (tutorials, books, code examples, FSDL Specification translations, etc.) is free to do so.
STG Interactive will not create a frogans search engine or directory
- Frogans search services can be freely created by anyone on the Internet. Leaving that role to the specialists, STG Interactive will not provide these services to end-users, and will not provide lists of registered frogans addresses to third parties.
STG Interactive does not sell you anything besides frogans address registration subscriptions (or licenses for creating private frogans networks of your own)
- We’re not out for a piece of your action. That’s why frogans address registration fees are the same for everybody, whether you have one, or a zillion frogans addresses, and whether your frogans are visited by the entire world, or by just a few acquaintances.
In short, if the Frogansphere is to grow, it has to be without barriers. STG Interactive provides the addressing service and the format specifications. It’s up to you to decide what you do, and how far you want to go. It’s way cool, so knock yourself out!