Go read OnStar gives Volt owners what they want: their data, in the cloud, by Sean Gallagher, in Ars Technica. It’s a VRM story. The vendor is Chevrolet, the vended product is the Volt, and the relationship management is a DIY hack by one customer. The story begins, You probably don’t think of your car as a developer [Read More →]
VRM happenings in the U.K.
November 20, 2012 — Doc SearlsThe 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 →]
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 →]
#vrm on twitter- RT @egadenne: Connexions et synergies entre #mesinfos et #mydatalabs sur les thématiques #VRM et #QuantifiedSelf http://t.co/ujZ8F7mhCL
- Connexions et synergies entre #mesinfos et #mydatalabs sur les thématiques #VRM et #QuantifiedSelf http://t.co/5TVWhY4Ymy - @egadenne
- Connexions et synergies entre #mesinfos et #mydatalabs sur les thématiques #VRM et #QuantifiedSelf http://t.co/ujZ8F7mhCL
- “@VRM_Apeldoorn: #LevelLog op erepodium in België! Weer een prestatie zo zie je maar #vrm verbind haar naam aan meerder toppers in de rally
- @pgc My Pro response to the new @Flickr: http://t.co/SGzOTe1vwz #VRM