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Jeremy Zawodny joins VRM (perhaps unknowingly)
Jeremy Zawodny of Yahoo!, recently asked Where to buy unlocked GSM mobile phones? perhaps unknowingly following in the footsteps of VRM (Vendor Relationship Management) pioneer Doc Searls. I’m a big fan of Jeremy’s blog, even if that is where he … Continue reading
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Company XYZ Releases Google Killer
This post from Google Blogoscoped is just too funny to ignore. Of course, SwitchBook‘s technology really is going to change everything. It is, after all, about “Complex Search,” which is so much more than just “Search.” 😉 Seriously, I think … Continue reading
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Internet Identity -> Reputation Networks and more
Effective, distributed, and automated third-party Identity systems will touch and change just about everything on the Internet. (Tip of the hat to Kim Cameron for the proposal and work behind that link.) For the last few months I’ve been exploring … Continue reading
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VRM: Make a gesture, create a market.
What do you get when you turn proprietary data silos inside out? Users in control. Doc Searls has been advocating VRM for a while (here too). What’s nice about his thinking — in addition to the open source/open standards approach … Continue reading
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Tagged personal RFP, Vendor Relationship Management, VRM
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GoogleAdvice from Seth Godin
In a conversation about the potential market lock-in of Google at Abe Burmeister‘s blog, Dave Chiu introduced me to a great presentation Seth Godin made to Google early in 2006, explaining that it was marketing, and not technology, that made … Continue reading
How Identity Can Enable A People-Centered Internet
Understanding Identity through Function This is the second of a regular column on Identity for the People Centered Internet. In the first column, I introduced the idea of Functional Identity as a way for ordinary people to discuss identity, with … Continue reading
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Beyond Data Ownership to Information Sharing
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Information Sharing, Intention Economy, Personal Data Store, ProjectVRM, Shared Information, User Driven Services, Vendor Relationship Management
Tagged CRM, data ownership, Doc Searls, Information Sharing, Personal Data Store, privacy, project VRM, ProjectVRM, User Driven, User Driven Services, Vendor Relationship Management, 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
Leaving the Information Age
Say goodbye to the Information Age. It’s already over. Ok, not over, completely. These things take time. You don’t just end an “Age” in an instant. But take a look around you and you’ll start to see the beginnings of … Continue reading
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