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Category Archives: Vendor Relationship Management
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
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Tagged Hans Rosling, Noah Brier, postVRM, project VRM, third world, Tufte, 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
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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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The user is the platform of the future… Doc Searls @ LeWeb3
I love Doc Searls. Few people inspire the future as well as Doc, especially when he is on a tear. Here’s a delightful short (<5 min) romp in an interview at LeWeb3 in Paris about the future of the web … Continue reading
Posted in Identity, Personal Data Store, Vendor Relationship Management
Tagged Doc Searls, LeWeb3, VRM
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The hard stuff – VRM Use Cases
Last week was the Internet Identity Workshop in Mountain View, California, which is, without reservation, the most productive technical gathering I know of. An “unconference,” (facilitated by the incomparable Kaliya Hamlin) it dumps the talking heads for interactive discussions so … Continue reading
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Tagged Identity, IIW, IIW2007b, OpenID, Use Case, User-centric Identity, VRM
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APML, OpenAuth, OpenSocial, VRM, Attention and Intention
Over at On the Pod, Duncan Riley hosts a rambling but intriguing chat about APML and its relationship with the latest Social Network developments: Ashley Angell, Chris Saad (Faraday Media) and Jon Cianciullo (Cluztr) join Duncan Riley to discuss APML, … Continue reading
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Credit Industry needs new integration paradigm… think VRM and Personal Data Stores
Slashdot brings us this article highlighting yet another picture-perfect case for the VRM Personal Data Store: Technical Writing Geek writes with the news that the retail industry is getting mighty fed up over credit card company policies requiring them to … Continue reading
Microsoft & Personal Health Records, Take 1
Microsoft launched its Personal Health Record initiative yesterday, according to the New York Times: The company’s consumer health offering includes a personal health record, as well as Internet search tailored for health queries, under the name Microsoft HealthVault (www.healthvault.com). The … Continue reading
Why Search needs VRM
Much laughter and thanks to Cory Doctorow for a send up of the Googlefuture, Scroogled. I’ll add a subtitle: “Learning to love Google nation.” Cory’s tale noir makes it crystal clear why Search needs VRM-style solutions to deal with user … Continue reading
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