Outlining -> VRM

April 30, 2013 — Doc Searls

Dave Winer‘s SmallPicture is a vendor I’ve been relating to from the start, mostly by cheering on development, for example of Fargo, the online outliner I describe here. Now that SmallPicture has a reader, I can copy and paste the HTML from my Fargo outline into WordPress under its HTML tab. This makes piling up and [Read More →]

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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 all-silo mobile marketplace

March 3, 2013 — Doc Searls

In the beginning was the browser, and the browser was yours. You drove it on the Information Superhighway of the World Wide Web: As a driver, you experienced the same kind of independence that you did with a car. You had a private space inside a private vehicle that you alone operated. You thought and [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 →]

Posted in Demand chain, Horizontal ideas, Personal Data, user-driven, Vertical ideas, VRM, VRM+CRM. 1 Comment »

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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Intentcasting

November 15, 2012 — Doc Searls

I’ve lately been posting under Dave Winer‘s threads, using an OPML editor. One of Dave’s latest posts bowls right up a big VRM alley, as he says in this tweet here. That alley is Intentcasting. From my reply: In the VRM development community, we started out calling the latter category “Personal RFPs,” but in the last [Read More →]

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Linklings

November 15, 2012 — Doc Searls

Here’s an overdue compilation of stuff I’ve been saving up to share. Many items have slipped through the cracks, but I want to get at least these up. The plural of personal is social, by JP Rangaswami. The punchlines (read through — there are many): Business is personal. It’s about relationships. It has always been [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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Let’s fix the car rental business

April 15, 2012 — Doc Searls

Lately Ron Lieber (@ronlieber), the Your Money editor and columnist for the New York Times, has been posting pieces that expose a dysfunction in the car rental marketplace — one that is punishing innovators that take the sides of customers. The story is still unfolding, which gives us the opportunity to visit and think through some [Read More →]

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Ting rings the opening bell

February 10, 2012 — Doc Searls

Here, according to the ProjectVRM wiki, are the ideal characteristics of VRM tools: VRM tools are personal. As with hammers, wallets, cars and mobile phones, people use them as individuals,. They are social only in secondary ways. VRM tools help customers express intent. These include preferences, policies, terms and means of engagement, authorizations, requests and [Read More →]

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