Author Archives: Joe Andrieu

Towards a node.js Auto-Tweeter

Posted on November 9, 2011 by Joe Andrieu

I’ve been intrigued by node.js as a platform for highly-scalable server applications written in javascript and finally found a super simple application I wanted to try with it: an auto-tweeter that would let me schedule future tweets to my own … Continue reading →

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Trust Me… Things Change.

Posted on April 22, 2011 by Joe Andrieu

Trust is complicated. But for some reason, online trust mechanisms assume it is outrageously simple. For example, firewalls imply that once you’re in the network, you’re trusted. It’s baked into the framing of the problem. Similarly, Trust Frameworks assume that … Continue reading →

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Fourth Parties are agents. Third Parties aren’t necessarily.

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Joe Andrieu

Fourth Parties is a powerful, but sometimes confusing term. In fact, I think Doc recently mischaracterized it in a recent post to the ProjectVRM mailing list. Normally, I wouldn’t nitpick about this, but there are two key domains where this … Continue reading →

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World Economic Forum and Personal Data as an Asset Class

Posted on April 10, 2011 by Joe Andrieu

At this last week’s Personal Data Deep Dive in Palo Alto, I had a chance to talk with some of the folks working with the World Economic Forum about their recent report Personal Data: The Emergence of a New Asset Class. … Continue reading →

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Constellations of Privacy

Posted on April 10, 2011 by Joe Andrieu

Privacy issues dominate the global debate about protecting the rights of individuals online. Yet, the conversation almost entirely misses a vital point: public or private isn’t a black or white choice and it never has been. Sociologists have long recognized … Continue reading →

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Facebook as Personal Data Store

Posted on December 20, 2010 by Joe Andrieu

With over 150 million people using Facebook Connect every month at over 1 million websites, Facebook has ushered in a new era, as the world’s largest personal data store. Personal Data Stores Personal data stores allow individuals to share online … Continue reading →

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Personal Data Stores, Exchanges, and Applications

Posted on September 17, 2010 by Joe Andrieu

Words matter. In the last few years, we in the VRM community have been using term “personal data store” as cornerstone concept.  We all understood we were talking about the same thing: a VRM approach for allowing people to use … Continue reading →

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Looking for feedback on pRFP and Information Sharing

Posted on September 7, 2010 by Joe Andrieu

At the VRM+CRM workshop last month, we (the Kantara ISWG) released two papers for comment. One on the Personal Request For Proposal (pRFP) Engagement Model and the other the Information Sharing Report. The first is a look at a the … Continue reading →

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Asymmetry by Choice

Posted on August 24, 2010 by Joe Andrieu

Perhaps the most powerful form of asymmetric information is missing from JP Rangaswami’s post addressing whether the web is making us dumber. I agree with the core point of JP’s article, but I think he oversimplifies the argument on asymmetry … Continue reading →

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Steve Blank at the Pescadrome in Santa Barbara April 14, 2010

Posted on April 5, 2010 by Joe Andrieu

Steve Blank, Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur and author of Four Steps to the Epiphany, will be presenting at the Fishbon Event Lab, Wednesday April 14 in Santa Barbara. The Event Lab starts at 7ish with a potluck barbecue, followed by … Continue reading →

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