Now comes news that Apple has been granted a patent for the iWallet. Here’s one image among many at that last link: Note the use of the term “rules.” Keep that word in mind. It is a Good Word. Now look at this diagram from Phil Windley‘s Event Channels post: Another term for personal event [Read More →]
GoDaddy VRooMed?
December 23, 2011 — Doc SearlsGoDaddy CEO Warren Adelman says “We listened to our customers. GoDaddy no longer supports SOPA.” (Here’s the GoDaddy blog post.) Lauren Weinstein says that’s not the same as opposing SOPA: “they’re the same ethically vacuous firm as always, with their public facade changing like a chameleon, blowing in the wind of Internet public opinion.” I still [Read More →]
Circling Around Your Wallet
August 28, 2011 — Doc SearlsTo get our heads all the way around Google+, it helps to remember Microsoft’s Hailstorm initiative from ten years ago. Think of Google+ as Hailstorm done right, or at least better. (That is, for Google.) What Microsoft wanted with Hailstorm was less “social” than personal. (“Social” in 2001 was years away from getting buzzy.) What Google wants with [Read More →]
VRooMing along
June 29, 2011 — Doc SearlsA quick progress report on a number of VRM fronts. First, lots of action around TrustFabric.org, a VRM company in South Africa. To get some background on context, start with KYC: Know Your Customer. This good-sense imperative takes on official qualities when banking is involved, or holes are left for criminals to slip through. In [Read More →]
State of the VRooM
February 15, 2011 — Doc SearlsA 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 →]
VRM comes to (and from) Chile
January 7, 2011 — Doc SearlsVRM.cl is a new VRM effort in Chile. The site is in Spanish, but I’m having no trouble reading it translated by Google Chrome (a major advantage of that browser). It’s new, and they’re on Twitter as well, through @VRM_cl. I also added them to the blogroll on the right. We welcome them aboard the [Read More →]
CRM (Mag) digs VRM
April 29, 2010 — Doc SearlsGot an email a couple days ago from Andre Durand saying it was great to see VRM making the cover of the May 2010 edition of CRM Magazine. Well, “cover” doesn’t cover it. Seems like about half the magazine is devoted to VRM, or to what Cluetrain (which in many ways begat VRM) still says, [Read More →]
Wanted: User-usable data
March 22, 2010 — Doc SearlsFor years makers of many kinds of goods and services have provided means for them to monitor how things are going. Now they need to include us in on the action, for the simple reason that we can do it better than they can. That’s the point of Driving by the Numbers, Robin Chase‘s recent [Read More →]
Is RedBeacon VRM?
September 16, 2009 — Doc SearlsThat question came to me this morning, in response to RedBeacon being named the winner of this year’s TechCrunch 50. What RedBeacon offers is a form of what in the VRM community we call a personal RFP. As the company’s site says, RedBeacon provides a way to … 1 Request a local service 2 Compare [Read More →]
Appreciating TipJoy
August 21, 2009 — Doc SearlsIt’s shocking and sad to read Jason Kincaid‘s Tipjoy Heads To The Deadpool story this morning in TechCrunch. Ivan and Abby Kirigin were neighbors just up the road from Cambridge (I understand they’ve recently moved back to California), and kindred spirits to the VRM community as well. Keith Hopper and I had a nice get-acquainted [Read More →]
#vrm on twitter- @goonth @GregoryJRader @dsearls Telco 2.0 and captive/hostage customers, via @GrahamHill http://t.co/q4adNYHq is why I want #VRM apps
- @goonth you mean to meet in Google Hangout on #VRM #thickvalue with @nigelcameron @dsearls @gregoryjrader whoelse?
- RT @goonth: @CoCreatr bottom line, we've got to get cultural stakeholders together in the same room... #thickvalue #VRM @nigelcameron
- RT @goonth: @CoCreatr bottom line, we've got to get cultural stakeholders together in the same room... #thickvalue #VRM @nigelcameron
- @CoCreatr bottom line, we've got to get cultural stakeholders together in the same room... #thickvalue #VRM @nigelcameron