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Yearly Archives: 2008
PocketMod: The origami PDA
I used to carry a small notebook (~2″x3″) with an equally small pen and would jokingly refer to it as my non-digital PDA whenever I took it out in front of fellow digerati. I mostly kept track of to-do items, … Continue reading
Tufte would be proud–the world through new (data) eyes
Rarely does presentation of statistical data make me say “wow” out loud. This did. Hans Rosling talking about the state of the world: third world, health, wealth, changes over time. Great data. Great presentation. Worth thinking about. In addition to … Continue reading
Posted in Vendor Relationship Management
Tagged Hans Rosling, Noah Brier, postVRM, project VRM, third world, Tufte, VRM
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Europe continues to lead privacy conversation with IP ruling
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Identity
Tagged European Union, IP addresses, privacy, project VRM, VRM
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The Killer App Proceeds From the User
Alex Iskold of Blue Organizer asks “What is the Killer App?” for the Semantic Web in an article that nicely condenses the current best of class in the major contending promises of what Tim Berner’s Lee has recently dubbed the … Continue reading
Posted in Vendor Relationship Management
Tagged , Intention, natural language, semantic search, semantic web, social graph, user centrism, VRM
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The VRM Vector
The core of VRM, Vendor Relationship Management, is the vector of activity. Remember vectors? Vectors are multi-dimensional, scalars one dimensional. In high school they explained it by saying velocity is a vector, it contains both the direction of travel and … Continue reading
iPhone, David Lynch, my little LG, and Users of the Future
Happy 2008 everyone. A quick thanks to Damien Mulley for this lovely bit on legendary director David Lynch hating on the iPhone: I just got a brand new LG from Verizon with their VCast service and I have to say, … Continue reading
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Tagged David Lynch, Fresh and Easy, iPhone, LG, Tesco, VRM, YouTube
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