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Category Archives: Personal Data Store
NewsGang talks data portability. Next up: Service Portability.
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 … Continue reading
The VRM Vector
The core of VRM, Vendor Relationship Management, is the vector of activity. Remember vectors? Vectors are multi-dimensional, scalars one dimensional. In high school they explained it by saying velocity is a vector, it contains both the direction of travel and … Continue reading
The user is the platform of the future… Doc Searls @ LeWeb3
I love Doc Searls. Few people inspire the future as well as Doc, especially when he is on a tear. Here’s a delightful short (<5 min) romp in an interview at LeWeb3 in Paris about the future of the web … Continue reading
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Credit Industry needs new integration paradigm… think VRM and Personal Data Stores
Slashdot brings us this article highlighting yet another picture-perfect case for the VRM Personal Data Store: Technical Writing Geek writes with the news that the retail industry is getting mighty fed up over credit card company policies requiring them to … Continue reading
Microsoft & Personal Health Records, Take 1
Microsoft launched its Personal Health Record initiative yesterday, according to the New York Times: The company’s consumer health offering includes a personal health record, as well as Internet search tailored for health queries, under the name Microsoft HealthVault (www.healthvault.com). The … Continue reading
Why Search needs VRM
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 … Continue reading
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A world of claims, not facts
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 … Continue reading
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Netflix going VRM
Blogging from GnomeDex, Dave Winer says Netflix is looking to offer VRM-style data portability: I had some interesting hallway talks, but none more interesting than the one with Kevin McEntee of Netflix about providing a way for users to take … Continue reading
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Google and Microsoft and Personal Health Records
The NYT reports interesting things afoot with major players Google and Microsoft pushing their own visions of the future of health care: If the efforts of the two big companies gain momentum over time, that promises to accelerate a shift … Continue reading
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VRM Banking
Kudos to Wesabe for launching a VRM approach to banking as described by Chief Product Officer Marc Hedlund: Last week, my company, Wesabe (which makes a personal finance community site), launched a REST API that allows anyone to get their … Continue reading
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