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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The right frame for relationship is personal, not social

February 13, 2013 — Doc Searls

The short answer to Brian Solis‘s headline question — Are Businesses Becoming the New Big Brother in Social Media? — is no, because they’re not that smart. In the body copy and graphics of his excellent post, Brian explains why. Here’s one sample: There are several other images like that, each of which says something we — [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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VRM in 2013

January 2, 2013 — Doc Searls

Two positive pats on the VRM back greeted the new year and got me thinking. The first is Jim Harris’ Small Data and VRM — his prediction for 2013 in the @DataRoundtable blog. He writes, One of the reasons that vendors are getting geeky over Big Data is because they claim that they want to use it to become more [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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Can we each be our own Amazon?

July 9, 2012 — Doc Searls

The most far-out chapter in The Intention Economy is one set in a future when free customers are known to be more valuable than captive ones. It’s called “The Promised Market,” and describes the imagined activities of a family traveling to a wedding in San Diego. Among the graces their lives enjoy are these (in the [Read More →]

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Scaling business in parallel

June 28, 2012 — Doc Searls

Companies and customers need to be able to deal with each other in two ways: as individuals and as groups. As of today companies can deal with customers both ways. They can get personal with customers, and they can deal with customers en masse. Without the latter capability, mass marketing would not be possible. Customers, [Read More →]

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Coming to terms

June 4, 2012 — Doc Searls

We lie every time we “accept” terms that we haven’t read — a pro forma  behavior that is all but required by the calf-cow model of the Web that’s prevailed since 1995. We need to change that. And so we are. StandardLabel.org is working on “A clear, consistent way for websites to say what they [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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Sovereign-source vs. administrative identity

March 25, 2012 — Doc Searls

You know who you are. So does the IRS, the DMV, and every Website you’ve ever made up a login and a password for — so it could “know” you. But none of those entities really knows you. What they know is what the techies call a namespace. What they have isn’t your identity, but [Read More →]

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