By Joe on March 20, 2008
Kudos to Assemblyman Richard L. Brodsky in the NY State Assembly for taking on GoogleClick and the rest of the back-end invisible online tracking services.
The NYT reports A Push to Limit the Tracking of Web Surfers’ Clicks:
AFTER reading about how Internet companies like Google, Microsoft and Yahoo collect information about people online and use [...]
Posted in Vendor Relationship Management | Tagged advertising, attention data, clickstream, disclosure, Esther Dyson, New York, New York Legislature, permission, privacy, Richard L. Brodsky, tracking |
By Joe on March 18, 2008
Microsoft Research recently revealed a new interface, called SearchBar, for tracking Advanced Searches. It’s pretty cool. The video is a must see for anyone interested in next-generation search. And the PDF is solid detail well worth the read. [You might also want to see their other Search UI innovations.]
The new SearchBar addresses a lot of [...]
Posted in Search | Tagged advanced search, Jacob Nielson, Microsoft, Microsoft SearchBar, SearchBar, SwitchBook |
By Joe on March 14, 2008
Excellent chat today by Steve Gillmor, Chris Saad, Mary Hodder, Karoli Kuns, Robert W. Anderson, Matt Terenzio, and Bruce Lerner about data portability. They get to the nitty gritty about data portability, licensing, and social networks. Perhaps the best Gang I’ve ever heard.
So, Steve, if you’re listening, take this to the next level and talk [...]
Posted in Identity, Personal Datastore, ProjectVRM, Vendor Relationship Management | Tagged Bruce Lerner, Chris Saad, Gillmor Gang, Karoli Kuns, Mary Hodder, Matt Terenzio, NewsGang, Robert W. Anderson, Steve Gillmor, Steve Gilmor, Vendor Relationship Management, VRM |
By Joe on March 11, 2008
For those of you who are curious about Powerset’s natural language search, here is an excellent, in-depth presentation (~1 hour 10 min) at the 2007 International Semantic Web Conference by founder & CTO Barney Pell.
Worth watching if next-generation search is on your radar.
Posted in Search | Tagged Barney Pell, ISWC2007, Powerset |
By Joe on March 9, 2008
Charitable giving has an intriguing relationship with rational pricing theories. The supply of charitable products is essentially inexhaustible. Price of a charitable gift is not based on supply and demand, with curves meeting at an efficient clearing price.
And yet, there is a competitive marketplace connecting patrons and charities. From schools and radio stations to [...]
Posted in ProjectVRM, Vendor Relationship Management | Tagged charities, Dean Karlan, John List, Nine Inch Nails, Pay-What-You-Want, project VRM, Radiohead, Vendor Relationship Management, VRM |
By Joe on March 7, 2008
Economists often talk of markets as price discovery mechanisms, and the freer the market, the more efficiently those prices can be discovered. In fact, in the absence of all transaction costs, free markets assure the efficient allocation of resources, regardless of initial distribution—that’s the core tenet of Law & Economics as proven by Coase ’60. [...]
Posted in ProjectVRM, Vendor Relationship Management | Tagged coase, demand, eventful.com, markets, pricing, Vendor Relationship Management, VRM |
By Joe on March 2, 2008
I used to carry a small notebook (~2″x3″) with an equally small pen and would jokingly refer to it as my non-digital PDA whenever I took it out in front of fellow digerati. I mostly kept track of to-do items, shopping lists, and inspirations, just stuff.
Forward to 2008 and enter PocketMod. Mash up your design, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Digital Life, non-digital PDA, PDA, PocketMod |
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