Say howdy to Insidr and Glome

December 8, 2011 — Doc Searls

One is Insidr, which is “rewriting the Rules of customer support” by giving you a way to “connect directly to real people who have worked in big companies and are willing to help when the company can’t or won’t.” You post a question, offer a bounty for an answer, and get an answer from an [Read More →]

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Signs of progress

October 19, 2011 — Doc Searls

The bottom line (literally) of this report on the Consumer Energy Summt in the UK is this piece of excellent news: …energy companies have agreed to give consumers access to their data in electronic format as part of the government Midata programme. Connect.me, a VRM company, gives us a way to construct “trust frameworks” among ourselves. They [Read More →]

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Prototyping a new business model for everything

October 13, 2011 — Doc Searls

For IIW next week, Craig Burton and I have been working on a prototype demonstrating EmanciPay, using ListenLog on the Public Radio Player app from PRX.  The description at the EmanciPay link is minimal so far, but the model has a great deal of promise, because what it puts forward is a new business model for [Read More →]

Posted in EmanciPay, freedom, Initiatives, Links, ListenLog, open source, Personal Data, r-button, self-tracking, social, user-driven, Vertical ideas, VRM, Workshops. 1 Comment »

Lawsuits as a business model

September 28, 2011 — Doc Searls

In The Economics of (Killing) Mass-BitTorrent Lawsuits at TorrentFreak, Alan Gregory examines the likely effects of recent rulings in the Northern District of California and elsewhere, all of which discourage the filing of copyright infringement lawsuits against whole swarms of BitTorrent users. While not exactly a VRM topic, I’m posting pointage to it because Alan was an intern [Read More →]

Posted in Academy, EmanciPay, ListenLog, Problems. 1 Comment »

Google’s Wallet and VRM

May 27, 2011 — Doc Searls

Yesterday Google opened the curtain on Google Wallet. I think it’s the most important thing Google has launched since the search engine. Here’s why: Reason #1: We’ve always needed an electronic wallet, especially one in our mobile phone. And, although others have tried to give us one, it hasn’t worked out for them, because… Reason #2: We’ve [Read More →]

Posted in Companies, crm, EmanciPay, freedom, Horizontal ideas, Links, open source, personal informatics, Scenarios, self-tracking, social, user-driven, VRM, VRM+CRM. Tags: , , , , . 6 Comments »

IIW dev job: ListenLog

April 29, 2011 — Doc Searls

Craig Burton has a nice tutorial on developing VRM applications, using ListenLog as both an example and a challenge for next week at IIW. ListenLog is the brainchild of Keith Hopper and the collaborative result of efforts by folks from NPR, PRX and other public radio institutions, as well as the Berkman Center and volunteers [Read More →]

Posted in EmanciPay, Events, Horizontal ideas, ListenLog, open source, Personal Data, personal informatics, r-button, Scenarios, self-tracking, Technology, user-driven, Vertical ideas, VRM, Workshops. Comments Off »

Prepping for IIW

April 20, 2011 — Doc Searls

Code talks, talk walks, Craig Burton just said in a phone conversation about IIW #12, which is coming up in Mountain View in the first week of May: the week after next. I like the spirit of that statement. Lots of VRM and related development efforts will be present there. Same goes for lots of APIs, [Read More →]

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State of the VRooM

February 15, 2011 — Doc Searls

A lot has been happening in VRooMville lately. (Testimony: over there on the right at the moment we have three different #VRM tweets, in three different languages.) Rather than summarize things, I’ll let writers and developers in the VRM community give us a rundown. In no special order, here goes… Reverse the Paradigm, by Uwe [Read More →]

Posted in Companies, crm, EmanciPay, Horizontal ideas, News, open source, Personal Data, personal informatics, self-tracking, VRM, VRM+CRM. 1 Comment »

Knight News Challenge entry for EmanciPay

December 4, 2010 — Doc Searls

Below is a copy of our entry to the Knight News Challenge. It actually hadn’t crossed my mind to put one together until last Monday, when I saw that they have a category for sustainability. It says here, Sustainability: Considers new economic models supporting news and information. New ways of conducting and consuming journalism may [Read More →]

Posted in EmanciPay, Horizontal ideas, Initiatives, ListenLog, open source, r-button, Scenarios, user-driven, VRM, VRM+CRM. 2 Comments »

VRM+CRM Follow-Up

September 3, 2010 — Doc Searls

It’s been a week since VRM+CRM 2010, and there have been many conversations on private channels (emails, face-to-face, phone-to-phone, face-to-faces), all “processing,” as they say. Meanwhile we also have some very interesting postings to chew on. (Note: This is cross-posted here.) First, Bill Wendell‘s RealEstateCafe wiki has a nice outline of sessions at the workshop. Better than our own, [Read More →]

Posted in Companies, EmanciPay, Events, Initiatives, Legal, Links, r-button, VRM, VRM+CRM, Workshops. 1 Comment »
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