VRM development work

February 5, 2013 — Doc Searls

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 →]

Posted in Companies, Demand chain, Horizontal ideas, Intentcasting, Legal, Links, ListenLog, open source, Personal Data, personal informatics, Privacy, r-button, self-tracking, Startups, Supply chain, Technology, user-driven, Vertical ideas, VRM, VRM+CRM. Comments Off »

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 →]

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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 →]

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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 »

Work toward free and open markets

July 19, 2010 — Doc Searls

I just posted three long VRM pieces on my blog: R-buttons and the Open Marketplace ListenLog EmanciPay They’re really one long post in three parts. Together they unpack the thinking behind my own development work at ProjectVRM here at the Berkman Center, and the three different components of that work. (It’s been a fun four-year-long [Read More →]

Posted in crm, EmanciPay, Horizontal ideas, Legal, Links, ListenLog, open source, r-button, VRM. 1 Comment »
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