Prepping for #VRM Day and #IIW

April 20, 2013 — Doc Searls

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 →]

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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 →]

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IIW XV

October 10, 2012 — Doc Searls

The XVth IIW is coming up on October 23-25 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, and VRM will be, as usual, a big topic — or collection of topics — there. IIW stands for Internet Identity Workshop, but the topical range is much wider than identity alone. Front and center for the last [Read More →]

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Let’s turn Do Not Track into a dialog

September 4, 2012 — Doc Searls

Do Not Track (DNT), by resembling Do Not Call in name, sounds like a form of prophylaxis.  It isn’t. Instead it’s a request by an individual with a browser not to be tracked by a website or its third parties. As a request, DNT also presents an interesting opportunity for dialogue between user and site, [Read More →]

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VRM at IIW

May 9, 2012 — Doc Searls

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 →]

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Your actual wallet vs./+ Google’s and Apple’s

March 6, 2012 — Doc Searls

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 →]

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

February 23, 2012 — Doc Searls

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 →]

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Stop making cows. Quit being calves.

February 21, 2012 — Doc Searls

The World Wide Web that Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented in 1990 was a collection of linked documents. The Web we have today is a collection not just of documents (some of which we quaintly call pages), but of real estate we call sites. This Web is mostly a commercial one. Even if most sites aren’t [Read More →]

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SOPA and Customer Commons

January 18, 2012 — Doc Searls

Imagine that Customer Commons had been created a year ago. To guide that imagining, here is the copy that matters from the placeholder page: Customer Commons is about us. We are a com­mu­nity of customers. We are funded only by customers. We serve the inter­ests and aspi­ra­tions of customers. We are the 100% Customer Commons [Read More →]

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Customers are personal, cont’d

January 17, 2012 — Doc Searls

There are so many excellent comments and questions following my last post, Consumers are social, Customers are personal, that I decided it would make more sense to address them in a new post than in comments under that one. So here goes. Joshua Marsh, the CEO of Conversocial, writes, I’m interested in your comment that [Read More →]

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