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Yearly Archives: 2007
John Battelle and Eric Schmidt on Data Silos
Phillip Lenssen at Blogoscoped points to this excellent interview of Eric Schmidt, Google CEO, by John Battelle. Of particular note, at the tail-end of the interview, is the unequivocal assurance by Schmidt that Google will “never trap user data.” Score … Continue reading
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Mindshare is more emotion than economics
Jim Bursch gives an interesting analysis of his economic model for mindshare. MyMindshare is Jim’s company, a marketplace for buying and selling attention, or as Jim calls it, mindshare. I’ve criticized MyMindshare’s premise before because it looks a lot like … Continue reading
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The nature of conversations
It’s been a while since my last blog post. Curiously, that delay changed my mental model for conversations, especially online conversations. Understanding conversations is, I think, one of the first steps to creating something amazing with VRM. Re-inventing the online … Continue reading
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Reversing Mass Media
Dave Winer (via Chris Carfi): “It was a mistake to believe that creativity was something you could delegate, no matter how much better they were than you, because it’s an important human activity, like breathing, eating, walking, laughing, loving.” Actually, … Continue reading
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The Rule of the Burden of Value
When revising working systems, it is important to increase value for everyone involved. I think this goes to the heart of how we can make VRM work. Maxim: Everyone wins. One of the exciting things is that there are lots … Continue reading
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Relationships are how you express them
At the recent VRM developers meeting, I posited an idea: Relationships only exist to the extent that we express them. Except for incidental relationships, every relationship that we care about manifests itself in our world in the form of expressions … Continue reading
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Paradoxes need split personalities
One of my friends once said I was the most “up-tight laid-back guy” he knew. It’s true. On the same topic, I’ll often veer wildly from one side to the other depending on the context. I’ve found this flexibility can … Continue reading
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VRM Process
Chris Carfi at The Social Customer Manifesto recently posted a thought provoking romp into the future of VRM: Accompanying this visual, he writes: So, the two big questions: Q1: Who controls the interactions between vendor and customer? Q2: Are the … Continue reading
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The Google Future
Robert X. Cringely paints an intriguing picture of our future… well, perhaps we should call it Google’s future, since they own it: Google will become our phone company, our cable company, our stereo system and our digital video recorder. Soon … Continue reading
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VRM & Microformats
Colin Henderson at BankWatch writes: I had considered microformats might be a method of managing these interactions. Could the consumer requirement I have outlined be brokered by a Microformat? That’s the open question I have. I agree. Microformats should definitely … Continue reading
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