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 April 10, 2008
From Yahoo News:
Majority Uncomfortable with Websites Customizing Content Based Visitors Personal Profiles
Level of Comfort Increases When Privacy Safeguards Introduced
ROCHESTER, N.Y.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–A majority of U.S. adults are skeptical about the practice of websites using information about a person’s online activity to [...]
Posted in Identity, ProjectVRM, Vendor Relationship Management | Tagged Identity, privacy, VRM |
By Joe on April 3, 2008
The title says it all, as reported by the Guardian:
BT admits tracking 18,000 users with Phorm systems in 2006
Bummer. I kinda like BT.
Posted in Identity | Tagged BT, privacy |
By Joe on March 20, 2008
Kudos to Assemblyman Richard L. Brodsky in the NY State Assembly for taking on GoogleClick and the rest of the back-end invisible online tracking services.
The NYT reports A Push to Limit the Tracking of Web Surfers’ Clicks:
AFTER reading about how Internet companies like Google, Microsoft and Yahoo collect information about people online and use [...]
Posted in Vendor Relationship Management | Tagged advertising, attention data, clickstream, disclosure, Esther Dyson, New York, New York Legislature, permission, privacy, Richard L. Brodsky, tracking |
By Joe on January 22, 2008
The EU is years ahead of the US in user rights and privacy. For a VRM example, see the UK’s Buyer-Centric Commerce Forum.
Now, according to the Washington Post, an EU judge has pushed the privacy envelope even further, saying “IP addresses are personal data“:
BRUSSELS — IP addresses, strings of numbers that identify computers on [...]
Posted in Identity | Tagged European Union, IP addresses, privacy, project VRM, VRM |
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