http://blog.joeandrieu.com My personal space Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:15:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://blog.joeandrieu.com/2010/01/21/beyond-data-ownership-to-information-sharing/ 10. Duty of Care User Driven Services look out for their users' well-being. If a service is truly acting in our best interests, it will take appropriate measures to protect us from dangers resulting from our use of the service. User Driven Services continually work to minimize user exposure to liability, risk, and ... http://blog.joeandrieu.com/2009/05/14/user-driven-services-10-duty-of-care/ 9. Self-managed Identity User Driven Services let users manage their own online identity. Unless we control our identity online, we risk unnecessary exposure to identity theft and unwanted correlation of online activity. At the same time, online services increase the risk of attacks when using the same identifier for multiple functions. User ... http://blog.joeandrieu.com/2009/05/13/user-driven-services-9-self-managed-identity/ 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 ... http://blog.joeandrieu.com/2009/05/12/user-driven-services-8-improvability/ 7. User Generativity Users contribute to User Driven Services. User Driven Services build on active, engaged participation in value creation. Users should be empowered to augment, annotate, and contribute to the underlying service as much as possible. By enabling users to pro-actively co-create the service experience—and to share that co-created value ... http://blog.joeandrieu.com/2009/05/10/user-driven-services-7-user-generativity/ 6. Self Hosting User Driven Services can be hosted on users' own machines. If we can’t host our own services, we become beholden to those who can. This creates an artificial barrier to portability, limiting user choice and allowing service providers to charge unnecessarily high costs for their services. User Driven Services ... http://blog.joeandrieu.com/2009/05/09/user-driven-services-6-self-hosting/ 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: ... http://blog.joeandrieu.com/2009/04/24/the-great-reconfiguration/ Digg's DiggBar and VideoEgg's new Twig are clobbering each other in the ongoing battle of web augmentation services, a class of user driven services. In Attack of The Frames: VideoEgg Introduces The Twig Ad Bar, Erick Schonfeld blasts the new Twig Ad Bar and DiggBar for not playing well together.  And ... http://blog.joeandrieu.com/2009/04/17/techcrunch-blasts-digg-for-bad-digital-citizenry/ A functional model for best practice Identity implementations. The Identity Quartet is a framework for online services that allows users to express their Identity on their own terms. When I use the term "Identity", I refer to the set of identifiers used in reference to users in online services. At the December ... http://blog.joeandrieu.com/2009/03/12/the-identity-quartet/ There is a low grade market war going on in web augmentation services, part of a huge shift in how developers and users perceive the web. The Web used to be about pages, then applications, followed by mashups. Today the interesting action is in augmentation. The leading edge of the Web first ... http://blog.joeandrieu.com/2009/03/01/netizen-developer/