By Joe on September 28, 2007
Many thanks to Robin Hunicke for pointing me to this absolutely wonderful reminder of why childhood dreams are so important.
As Robin says, if you haven’t seen it already, take a moment and do. You might start with the Wall Street Journal article about Randy’s “last lecture.”
I’ve not met Randy, but I’m glad Robin introduced me [...]
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By Joe on September 26, 2007
Much laughter and thanks to Cory Doctorow for a send up of the Googlefuture, Scroogled. I’ll add a subtitle: “Learning to love Google nation.”
Cory’s tale noir makes it crystal clear why Search needs VRM-style solutions to deal with user control of query and clickstream data. Google isn’t about to let you fully edit or delete [...]
Posted in Personal Datastore, ProjectVRM, Vendor Relationship Management |
By Joe on September 24, 2007
David Hull recently responded to my post-Information Age article suggesting that we are in fact, just at the end of the beginning rather than the end of the Information Age itself:
I like the article, I like the argument, but I don’t quite like the conclusion. As Churchill said, this is not the end. It is [...]
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By Joe on September 22, 2007
Say goodbye to the Information Age. It’s already over.
Ok, not over, completely. These things take time. You don’t just end an “Age” in an instant. But take a look around you and you’ll start to see the beginnings of the end, just about everywhere.
The last Great Age, the Industrial Age, started sometime around the invention [...]
Posted in ProjectVRM, Search, Vendor Relationship Management |
By Joe on September 20, 2007
In case you haven’t already heard it elsewhere, Dave Recordon has announced that Six Apart is opening its social graph.
Kudos to Dave & the rest of the team at Six Apart for opening up the data silo.
There remain several access rights management issues around reusing one’s social graph, but getting [...]
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By Joe on September 19, 2007
Thanks Jamie Rubin for a nice little video:
Difficult jobs
My job is always challenging and difficult but it’s nothing compared to what this guy does everyday. I have no idea where this video comes from but it’s fascinating.
(via B.L. Ochman)
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By Joe on September 18, 2007
But is perhaps missing the biggest nail of all.
I’ve been enjoying Marc Andreessen’s blogging since he started. Always well written, often insightful, and tapping a wealth of Internet and entrepreneurial experience, his posts are at the top of my reading list.
One of his latest maps out the power of platforms, especially as they apply to [...]
Posted in ProjectVRM, Vendor Relationship Management |
By Joe on September 18, 2007
On the Social Network Interoperability list, Danny Ayers recently pointed to a great post, “The World is Now Closed” by Dan Brickley, with the following quote:
[[from Dan Brickly:] So what am I getting at here? I guess it’s just that we need these big social sites to move away from making teen-talk claims about how [...]
Posted in Identity, Personal Datastore, ProjectVRM, Vendor Relationship Management |
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