Circling Around Your Wallet

August 28, 2011 — Doc Searls

To 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 →]

Posted in Demand chain, Horizontal ideas, News, Personal Data, Supply chain, user-driven. 12 Comments »

Working for you

July 27, 2011 — Doc Searls

As more native VRM tools come into the hands of individuals, what happens to the whole supply chain? Or, put another way, what happens to supply in general when there are more and better ways of expressing demand? I was talking a couple days ago about that with Michael Stolarczyk, one of the world’s leading [Read More →]

Posted in B2B VRM, Companies, Horizontal ideas, Scenarios, Supply chain, VRM. Comments Off »

Link roundup

July 25, 2011 — Doc Searls

The hot edge of VRM right now is in South Africa, where TrustFabric (@TrustFabric, also mention ed in the prior post) is answering that country’s approach to personal privacy concerns with TrustFabric Connect. Let’s help them out. Note also that they’re helping the rest of us by making their code free (GPL v2) and therefore also open source. Also [Read More →]

Posted in Companies, freedom, Horizontal ideas, Initiatives, Personal Data, Supply chain, Transparency, VRM, VRM+CRM. Comments Off »

Beyond Bullwhips

January 20, 2011 — Doc Searls

In the Pardalis Data Ownership Blog @Steve Holcombe has an interesting and important pair of posts titled The Bullwhip Effect Part I and Part II. An excerpt: … isn’t this already happening on Facebook? Can’t the Customer, Producer, Wholesaler, Retailer, and even the Government Regulators all become Facebook friends and experience right now this mashed-together vision of VRM and whole chain traceability? And [Read More →]

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