Tag Archives: Doc Searls

Fourth Parties are agents. Third Parties aren’t necessarily.

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Joe Andrieu

Fourth Parties is a powerful, but sometimes confusing term. In fact, I think Doc recently mischaracterized it in a recent post to the ProjectVRM mailing list. Normally, I wouldn’t nitpick about this, but there are two key domains where this … Continue reading →

Posted in ProjectVRM, Vendor Relationship Management | Tagged Doc Searls, fourth parties, Platform, ProjectVRM, Vendor Relationship Management, VRM | 2 Comments

Beyond Data Ownership to Information Sharing

Posted on January 21, 2010 by Joe Andrieu

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 | 22 Comments

A fresh breath

Posted on January 2, 2010 by Joe Andrieu

This last year (2009) was the most challenging ever for me, both personally and professionally. Good times, tough problems, people that transformed my heart, and ideas that changed my perspective. It wasn’t always easy, but each challenge had its own … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 2009, 2010, Azigo, Doc Searls, happy new year, kynetx, project VRM, scanaroo, SwitchBook, the mine!, User Driven Services, VRM | Comments Off

Ephemera and Permanence — Tweets for Life

Posted on August 14, 2009 by Joe Andrieu

Respectfully, Doc, I think you underestimate the value of the permatweet. I’m still haunted by hearing that users get a maximum number Twitter postings (tweets) before the old ones scroll off. If true, it means Twitter is a whiteboard, made to … Continue reading →

Posted in Shared Information | Tagged At-Will, At-will information sharing, Creative Commons, Doc Searls, Facebook, flow-by web, Kantara Initiative, live web, On-the-Record, On-the-record information sharing, Shared Information, UD-VPI, UMA, User Driven & Volunteered Personal Information, User Managed Access, YouTube | 3 Comments

One Night Stand worth $300 Million

Posted on February 23, 2009 by Joe Andrieu

In the ProjectVRM Standards Committee discussions, we’ve talked quite a bit about a “One Night Stand” use case, where a personal data store is used with an online retailer and all personal data is erased–as much as possible–after the transaction. … Continue reading →

Posted in Intention Economy, Personal Data Store, ProjectVRM, Vendor Relationship Management | Tagged Abhijit Nadgouda, Doc Searls, iface thoughts, Jared Spool, One Night Stand, project VRM, Vendor Releationship Managment, VRM | 2 Comments

Kynetx takes on Structured Browsing

Posted on February 8, 2009 by Joe Andrieu

Doc Searls recently brought my attention to a White Paper by Phil Windley, about his company, Kynetx. It does a good job explaining the thinking behind their architecture, and raises some questions that, for me, challenge some underlying assumptions and … Continue reading →

Posted in Identity, Intention Economy, Personal Data Store, ProjectVRM, User Driven Search, Vendor Relationship Management | Tagged ad blockers, Adaptive Blue, data rights management, Doc Searls, Glue, information cards, kynetx, MyDex, open source, open standards, OpenID, Personal Data Store, Phil Windley, privacy, r-button, rbutton, relationship services, search map, Skype, structured browsing, SwitchBook, User Driven Search, User Driven Services, VRM, web augmentation, Yahoo Toolbar | 1 Comment

Farewell Google Notebook, Move over SearchWiki, We need a Search Map

Posted on January 19, 2009 by Joe Andrieu

Alas, a noble experiment has been slayed by the relentless hand of corporate focus. Google has announced its web-clipping scrapbook Google Notebook will no longer be actively developed. I’ve mentioned Google Notebook briefly in the past, as a tool for … Continue reading →

Posted in ProjectVRM, Search, User Driven Search, Vendor Relationship Management | Tagged advanced search, Complex Search, Doc Searls, Google, Google Notebook, search map, SearchWiki, SwitchBook, User Driven Search, Vendor Relationship Management, VRM, VRMWorkshop, VRMWorkshop2009, Wikia | Comments Off

Towards User Driven Search

Posted on July 12, 2008 by Joe Andrieu

It is time to give users more control over Search. At VRM2008 in Munich and at IIW in Mountain View, I started a conversation about User-Driven Search, the premise: what would it mean for users to truly drive their searches? … Continue reading →

Posted in ProjectVRM, User Driven Search, Vendor Relationship Management | Tagged Adriana Lukas, Doc Searls, Google, SwitchBook, User Driven Search, Vendor Relationship Management, VRM, VRMWorkshop, VRMWorkshop2008 | 9 Comments

Answers to a few questions about VRM

Posted on June 13, 2008 by Joe Andrieu

Pignerol Antoine recently asked some questions about VRM and I thought I’d answer them publicly. Is VRM really different from social CRM ? Yes, although exactly how depends on how you define social CRM. Based on my understanding, I would … Continue reading →

Posted in ProjectVRM, Vendor Relationship Management | Tagged CRM, Doc Searls, FAQ, Shopatron, user-driven commerce, Vendor Relationship Management, VRM | 2 Comments

The user is the platform of the future… Doc Searls @ LeWeb3

Posted on December 13, 2007 by Joe Andrieu

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 | 2 Comments