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By Joe Andrieu on January 15, 2012
How do you get a book at Project Gutenberg into your iPad Kindle app? It’s easy. Go to Gutenberg on your iPad and download the “Kindle” .mobi file. It’ll automatically open in the Kindle app. Yay. Don’t worry about instructions for how to get a .mobi file to your iPad Kindle. It’s a bit of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged ebook, gutenberg, ipad, kindle, mobi |
By Joe Andrieu on September 17, 2010
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 share personal information with third- (and fourth-) party service providers on their own terms. Yet [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged PDS, PDX, personal data application, personal data architecture, personal data exchange, Personal Data Store |
By Joe Andrieu on September 7, 2010
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 negotiation stage in the Car Buying Engagement Model, which paints a detailed picture of one [...]
Posted in Information Sharing, Personal Data Store, ProjectVRM, Shared Information, Uncategorized | Tagged Information Sharing, ISWG, Kantara, pRFP |
By Joe Andrieu on April 5, 2010
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 the presentation at around 8:30. Steve’s startup experiences include E.piphany, Zilog, MIPS Computers, Convergent Technologies, [...]
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By Joe Andrieu on January 3, 2010
Several folks (Matt Cutts and John Meyer, among others) have called for a break from our social networking, online everything world. Sure. It’s about time. I sated myself long ago on the digital high of social networking, whether you call it Twitter, Facebook, or something else. We, the Kool-Aid drinkers, will try just about any new [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged digital cleanse |
By Joe Andrieu on January 2, 2010
This last year (2009) was the most challenging ever for me, both personally and professionally. Good times, tough problems, people that transformed my heart, and ideas that changed my perspective. It wasn’t always easy, but each challenge had its own reward. I’m looking forward to writing a bit more this year, opening the conversation up [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 2009, 2010, Azigo, Doc Searls, happy new year, kynetx, project VRM, scanaroo, SwitchBook, the mine!, User Driven Services, VRM |
By Joe Andrieu on July 15, 2008
“Social Graph” is not just a singular noun. “The Social Graph” is a popular misnomer that has plagued the social networking portability conversation ever since Brad Fitzpatrick catalyzed the blogosphere with a vision about the Global Social Graph. But in fact, “The Social Graph” has little real value outside of computer science elegance. Nobody but [...]
Posted in ProjectVRM, Uncategorized, Vendor Relationship Management | Tagged social graph, user centrism, User Driven, Vendor Relationship Management, VRM, VRM2008, VRMWorkshop2008 |
By Joe Andrieu on April 17, 2008
I’m not sure how I found it, but today I discovered a bit of a gem in the blogosphere: ValleyZen. For a quick taste, check out the interview with Drue Kataoka on View from the Bay. It is amazing how a few simple words can have such a profound visceral impact. Drue’s suggestions resonate with [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Drue Kataoka, user centrism, ValleyZen, View from the Bay, Zen |
By Joe Andrieu 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 [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Digital Life, non-digital PDA, PDA, PocketMod |
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