By Joe on May 12, 2009
8. Improvability
User Driven Services can be improved by users.
A closed system can’t predict and satisfy all the needs of all its users, all the time. Sooner or later, someone will eventually desire a new feature or capability beyond the resources or interest of the service provider. User Driven Services take advantage of that motivation, allowing [...]
Posted in User Driven, User Driven Services | Tagged customization, hacking, improvability, open source, User Driven, User Driven Services |
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 May 11, 2008
At EIC2008 last month, Dale Olds of Novell’s Bandit Project gave me a few minutes and some insight into how Novell (and others) are mixing open source with proprietary software to architect a whole new Identity paradigm online.
I’ve been following the user-centric Identity movement ever since Doc Searls talked me into attending IIW2006b, an unconference. [...]
Posted in Identity | Tagged Bandit, Dale Olds, Higgins, Identity, Identity Meta-System, Kim Cameron, Microsoft, Novell, open source, User-centric Identity |
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