VRM at IIW

May 7, 2013 — Doc Searls

We had a packed house yesterday at VRM Day 2013a — more than fifty people — prepping for IIW , which starts today and runs for two more at the Computer History Museumin Mountain View. IIW is an unconference. No keynotes, no panels, no sponsors controlling the agenda. At the beginning of each day, particpants [Read More →]

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Identity is personal

May 1, 2013 — Doc Searls

It’s as simple as that. Identity is not corporate. That means no company is going to “win” at personal identity, any more than any company can win at being you or me. It makes no sense. But meanwhile, there’s this big war going on over identity, that Mike Elgan of CultOfMac covers (from the Apple [Read More →]

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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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VRN Linkage

April 3, 2013 — Doc Searls

A roundup of VRM-related tweets and posts… Tweets: williamheath ‏@williamheath @felix_cohen Well, indeed. There is a better way, and I think Unis will lead the way #VRM #Mydex Gary Rowe  @garyjrowe 4 Apr Discovering Identity: LinkedIn Should Use Connect.me http://www.discoveringidentity.com/2013/03/30/linkedin-should-use-connect-me/ … #IDM #Tech #LI #VRM Expand Enzion Xavier  @NZN 4 Apr What is UDPO? http://www.moxytongue.com/2011/10/what-is-udpo.html … empower people so that they are no longer held captive [Read More →]

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The best VRM post, ever

March 28, 2013 — Doc Searls

One of the most mind-blowing one-liners I ever heard tossed was this one: “All the significant trends start with technologists.” It was uttered by Marc Andreessen  during an interview I did with him for Linux Journal, in May 1998, for the August issue of the magazine, following up on Netscape’s open source release of Mozilla. [Read More →]

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Explaining VRM

March 15, 2013 — Doc Searls

In Rallying cry for innovation – and faith, Mark Sage puts up some long excerpts from a post I made to the ProjectVRM list, explaining VRM to a skeptical marketer. The bottom lines: VRM isn’t complicated. It’s only about giving customers means toward two things: independence and engagement. To see how that can be done, one needs [Read More →]

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The VRM perspective

March 9, 2013 — Doc Searls

The VRM perspective is independence. This isn’t new. In fact, it’s as old as the Net. It is also nearly forgotten. Billions have never experienced it. When the Net first came into common use, in 1995, independence was what anybody felt who started up a browser and surfed from place to place, or who built [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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Where VRM stands in the advertising debate

February 28, 2013 — Doc Searls

It’s easy to see why the behavioral advertising business feels threatened lately. Already some of the most popular browser add-ons are for blocking ads and tracking. (Here’s one list.) As of last May, according to ClarityRay, 9.26% of all ads were being blocked by browsers. For tech content, the rate was 17.79% and in one [Read More →]

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