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 April 26, 2009
Our world is continually becoming more and more user driven.
From cable TV to YouTube, from newspapers to blogs, from Wal-Mart to eBay, from Ma Bell to the Internet, the shift from centralized, structured systems of authority to emergent, collaborations between individuals has been reshaping our political, social, and economic world for generations. This is a [...]
Posted in Intention Economy, User Driven Services, Vendor Relationship Management | Tagged Internet, ProjectVRM, User Driven Services, Vendor Relationship Management, VRM, World Wide Web |
By Joe on April 24, 2009
The Internet is undergoing a major reconfiguration.
No longer is it sufficient for companies to package a value proposition on their website and then drive traffic to it through ads, search engine optimization, and reciprocal links. Today companies must find ways to provide a value proposition wherever the user might be: on Facebook and Twitter, on [...]
Posted in ProjectVRM, Search, User Driven Search, User Driven Services, Vendor Relationship Management | Tagged IIW, IIW2009a, ProjectVRM, User Driven, User Driven Search, User Driven Services, VRM, VRM Workshop 2009, VRM2009, VRM2009a |
By Joe on February 12, 2009
Last week we used a prototyping technique that has changed the way I look at development: paper prototyping.
I had heard a bit about this before and it sounded great… but there’s always such a drive to just start coding! Before I reach Carolyn Snyder’s excellent Paper Prototyping, I hadn’t realized what I was missing.
The key [...]
Posted in Search, User Driven Search, Vendor Relationship Management | Tagged carolyn snyder, development, paper prototyping, programming, ProjectVRM, search map, SwitchBook, User Driven Search, VRM |
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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