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By Joe on January 21, 2010
The question of who owns our data on the Internet is a challenging problem. It can also be a red herring, distracting us from building the next generation of online services.
The term “ownership” simply brings too much baggage from the physical world, suggesting a win-lose, us-verses-them mentality that retards the development of rich, powerful services [...]
Posted in Information Sharing, Intention Economy, Personal Datastore, ProjectVRM, Shared Information, User Driven Services, Vendor Relationship Management | Tagged CRM, data ownership, Doc Searls, Information Sharing, Personal Datastore, privacy, project VRM, ProjectVRM, User Driven, User Driven Services, Vendor Relationship Management, VRM |
By Joe 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 about [...]
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 on August 14, 2009
Respectfully, Doc, I think you underestimate the value of the permatweet.
I’m still haunted by hearing that users get a maximum number Twitter postings (tweets) before the old ones scroll off. If true, it means Twitter is a whiteboard, made to be erased after awhile. The fact that few know what the deal is, exactly, also makes [...]
Posted in Shared Information | Tagged At-Will, At-will information sharing, Creative Commons, Doc Searls, Facebook, flow-by web, Kantara Initiative, live web, On-the-Record, On-the-record information sharing, Shared Information, UD-VPI, UMA, User Driven & Volunteered Personal Information, User Managed Access, YouTube |
By Joe on February 23, 2009
In the ProjectVRM Standards Committee discussions, we’ve talked quite a bit about a “One Night Stand” use case, where a personal datastore is used with an online retailer and all personal data is erased–as much as possible–after the transaction.
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Posted in Intention Economy, Personal Datastore, ProjectVRM, Vendor Relationship Management | Tagged Abhijit Nadgouda, Doc Searls, iface thoughts, Jared Spool, One Night Stand, project VRM, Vendor Releationship Managment, VRM |
By Joe on February 8, 2009
Doc Searls recently brought my attention to a White Paper by Phil Windley, about his company, Kynetx. It does a good job explaining the thinking behind their architecture, and raises some questions that, for me, challenge some underlying assumptions and business choices.
Problem Domain
The distributed nature of the web is a big part of its [...]
Posted in Identity, Intention Economy, Personal Datastore, ProjectVRM, User Driven Search, Vendor Relationship Management | Tagged ad blockers, Adaptive Blue, data rights management, Doc Searls, Glue, information cards, kynetx, MyDex, open source, open standards, OpenID, Personal Datastore, Phil Windley, privacy, r-button, rbutton, relationship services, search map, Skype, structured browsing, SwitchBook, User Driven Search, User Driven Services, VRM, web augmentation, Yahoo Toolbar |
By Joe on January 19, 2009
Alas, a noble experiment has been slayed by the relentless hand of corporate focus. Google has announced its web-clipping scrapbook Google Notebook will no longer be actively developed.
I’ve mentioned Google Notebook briefly in the past, as a tool for helping with user-driven searches (more) — or complex searches as I used to call them. Unfortunately, [...]
Posted in ProjectVRM, Search, User Driven Search, Vendor Relationship Management | Tagged advanced search, Complex Search, Doc Searls, Google, Google Notebook, search map, SearchWiki, SwitchBook, User Driven Search, Vendor Relationship Management, VRM, VRMWorkshop, VRMWorkshop2009, Wikia |
By Joe on July 12, 2008
It is time to give users more control over Search.
At VRM2008 in Munich and at IIW in Mountain View, I started a conversation about User-Driven Search, the premise: what would it mean for users to truly drive their searches?
User-driven is a new term that came out of the VRM community riffing on the meaning of [...]
Posted in ProjectVRM, User Driven Search, Vendor Relationship Management | Tagged Adriana Lukas, Doc Searls, Google, SwitchBook, User Driven Search, Vendor Relationship Management, VRM, VRMWorkshop, VRMWorkshop2008 |
By Joe on June 13, 2008
Pignerol Antoine recently asked some questions about VRM and I thought I’d answer them publicly.
Is VRM really different from social CRM ?
Yes, although exactly how depends on how you define social CRM. Based on my understanding, I would suggest that VRM is first and foremost about providing value for the user with any vendor, as [...]
Posted in ProjectVRM, Vendor Relationship Management | Tagged CRM, Doc Searls, FAQ, Shopatron, user-driven commerce, Vendor Relationship Management, VRM |
By Joe on December 13, 2007
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 and the critical importance of making user-centric open systems the core of a ubiquitously [...]
Posted in Identity, Personal Datastore, Vendor Relationship Management | Tagged Doc Searls, LeWeb3, VRM |
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