Tag Archives: VRM

iPhone, David Lynch, my little LG, and Users of the Future

Posted on January 8, 2008 by Joe Andrieu

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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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 →

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The hard stuff – VRM Use Cases

Posted on December 11, 2007 by Joe Andrieu

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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VRM: The user as point of integration

Posted on June 14, 2007 by Joe Andrieu

On yesterday’s Project VRM conference call, a piece of the Vendor Relationship Management puzzle snapped into alignment in a flash of insight. It wasn’t something new to the movement, rather it was a realization about the primacy and criticality of … Continue reading →

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VRM & Microformats

Posted on January 19, 2007 by Joe Andrieu

Colin Henderson at BankWatch writes: I had considered microformats might be a method of managing these interactions. Could the consumer requirement I have outlined be brokered by a Microformat? That’s the open question I have. I agree. Microformats should definitely … Continue reading →

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Shopatron redefines Vendor Relationships

Posted on January 19, 2007 by Joe Andrieu

Ed Stevens of Shopatron is re-intermediating retailers into the online sales process. Re-intermediation? It seems to go against the grain of what the Internet means to markets. Distributors. Retailers. Middlemen. All these folks were supposed to be disintermediated, returning the … Continue reading →

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Google Advocates VRM for medical data

Posted on January 12, 2007 by Joe Andrieu

Philipp Lenssen at Google Blogoscoped shares this quote from Google’s Vice President Adam Bosworth [excerpted from original transcript]: So what can be done? We should start at the beginning. Let’s put the patients in charge of their health and medical … Continue reading →

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The ‘R’ in VRM

Posted on December 18, 2006 by Joe Andrieu

Jeremie recently asked “What does the R mean in VRM?” The question I ask myself about VRM though is what does the Relationship mean? Many of the situations that have been proposed for VRM to play a role are Vendor … Continue reading →

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VRM: Make a gesture, create a market.

Posted on November 21, 2006 by Joe Andrieu

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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