Prepping for #VRM Day and #IIW

The 16th IIW (Internet Identity Workshop) is coming up, Tuesday to Thursday, 7-9 May, will be tat the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. As usual, VRM will be a main topic, with lots of developers and other interested folk participating. Also as usual, we will have a VRM planning day on the Monday preceding: 6 May, [Read More →]

VRN Linkage

A roundup of VRM-related tweets and posts… Tweets: williamheath ‏@williamheath @felix_cohen Well, indeed. There is a better way, and I think Unis will lead the way #VRM #Mydex Gary Rowe  @garyjrowe 4 Apr Discovering Identity: LinkedIn Should Use Connect.me http://www.discoveringidentity.com/2013/03/30/linkedin-should-use-connect-me/ … #IDM #Tech #LI #VRM Expand Enzion Xavier  @NZN 4 Apr What is UDPO? http://www.moxytongue.com/2011/10/what-is-udpo.html … empower people so that they are no longer held captive [Read More →]

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VRM Roundup

Some collected items, some old, some new… Products I Want, an intentcasting post by Johannes Ernst. On cricket, riots, trust and customer advocacy and The Dimes; a modern retail fable, by JP Rangaswami. Own your identity, by Phil Windley, responds to The VRM perspective. On personal clouds: The personal clouds wiki Introducing SquareTag, An API for my [Read More →]

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VRM development work

I’ll be having a brown bag lunch today with a group of developers, talking about VRM and personal clouds, among other stuff that’s sure to come up. To make that easier, I’ve copied and pasted the current list from the VRM developers page of the ProjectVRM wiki. If you’d like to improve it in any [Read More →]

VRM happenings in the U.K.

The tweets have been rolling in… @Ctrl-Shift  Identity Assurance: Mydex’s unique contribution. An interview with @dejalexander @MydexCIC http://www.ctrl-shift.co.uk/news/2012/11/15/identity-assurance-mydexs-unique-contribution/ … @williamheath‏ @321CtrlShift interview with my colleague @dejalexander on @MydexCIC and #IDAssurance http://is.gd/7yyiZk  #VRM @Mydex CIC‏ Very thoughtful @SimonTucker blog post about today’s DWP announcement http://is.gd/zRslHa  #IDAssurance #VRM @williamheath‏ For those who wondered how #VRM would first break in the popular press: http://bit.ly/107SqT9  #DailyMirror #Midata #CtrlShift So let’s unpack those. First, the DWP (Department [Read More →]

Can we each be our own Amazon?

The most far-out chapter in The Intention Economy is one set in a future when free customers are known to be more valuable than captive ones. It’s called “The Promised Market,” and describes the imagined activities of a family traveling to a wedding in San Diego. Among the graces their lives enjoy are these (in the [Read More →]

Scaling business in parallel

Companies and customers need to be able to deal with each other in two ways: as individuals and as groups. As of today companies can deal with customers both ways. They can get personal with customers, and they can deal with customers en masse. Without the latter capability, mass marketing would not be possible. Customers, [Read More →]

Coming to terms

We lie every time we “accept” terms that we haven’t read — a pro forma  behavior that is all but required by the calf-cow model of the Web that’s prevailed since 1995. We need to change that. And so we are. StandardLabel.org is working on “A clear, consistent way for websites to say what they [Read More →]

VRM at IIW

VRM was a hot topic at IIW last week, with at least one VRM or VRM-related breakout per session — and that was on top of the VRM workshop held at Ericsson on Monday, April 30, the day before IIW started. (Thanks to Nitin Shah and the Ericsson folks for making the time and space available, [Read More →]

How about using the ‘No Track’ button we already have?

For as long as we’ve had economies, demand and supply have been attracted to each other like a pair of magnets. Ideally, they should match up evenly and produce good outcomes. But sometimes one side comes to dominate the other, with bad effects along with good ones. Such has been the case on the Web [Read More →]