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Author Archives: Joe Andrieu
NewsGang talks data portability. Next up: Service Portability.
Excellent chat today by Steve Gillmor, Chris Saad, Mary Hodder, Karoli Kuns, Robert W. Anderson, Matt Terenzio, and Bruce Lerner about data portability. They get to the nitty gritty about data portability, licensing, and social networks. Perhaps the best Gang … Continue reading
Pricing for Charities: Pay-What-You-Want and VRM
Charitable giving has an intriguing relationship with rational pricing theories. The supply of charitable products is essentially inexhaustible. Price of a charitable gift is not based on supply and demand, with curves meeting at an efficient clearing price. And yet, … Continue reading
Posted in ProjectVRM, Vendor Relationship Management
Tagged charities, Dean Karlan, John List, Nine Inch Nails, Pay-What-You-Want, project VRM, Radiohead, Vendor Relationship Management, VRM
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Pricing, Markets, and Demand, VRM style
Economists often talk of markets as price discovery mechanisms, and the freer the market, the more efficiently those prices can be discovered. In fact, in the absence of all transaction costs, free markets assure the efficient allocation of resources, regardless … Continue reading
Posted in ProjectVRM, Vendor Relationship Management
Tagged coase, demand, eventful.com, markets, pricing, Vendor Relationship Management, VRM
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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
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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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