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 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 June 14, 2007
On yesterday’s Project VRM conference call, a piece of the Vendor Relationship Management puzzle snapped into alignment in a flash of insight.
It wasn’t something new to the movement, rather it was a realization about the primacy and criticality of what we are doing and how to communicate it. It has always been a part of [...]
Posted in Personal Datastore, ProjectVRM, Vendor Relationship Management | Tagged Personal Datastore, point of integration, ProjectVRM, User Driven, User Driven Services, Vendor Relationship Managment, VRM |
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