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 →]
Prepping for #VRM Day and #IIW
April 20, 2013 — Doc SearlsThe 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 →]
Toward a matrix of APIs
December 16, 2012 — Doc SearlsAt the 2006 O’Reilly Emerging Technology conference, Cal Henderson, then of Flickr, gave a long session called “Launching and scaling new Web services.” As I recall, among the many things he explained well were some principles behind the Flickr API. One of those principles was user access to data. The API should be one that [Read More →]
VRM at IIW
October 23, 2012 — Doc SearlsBelow: two whiteboards from our VRM planning day, yesterday, in prep for #IIW, which is going on right now in Mountain View. I’ll explain later. Mostly right now I want to put these up to bring topics back to mind for folks who were there.
VRM/CX + CRM/CX
June 28, 2012 — Doc SearlsI’ve been in conversations lately about VRM+CRM. Will they help each other out or crash into each other? It’s an open question. But I think we can find an answer in a current CRM vector: toward what the CRM folks have been calling CX, for Customer eXperience. I first read about it in this column [Read More →]
Scaling business in parallel
June 28, 2012 — Doc SearlsCompanies 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 →]
Sovereign-source vs. administrative identity
March 25, 2012 — Doc SearlsYou 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 →]
#vrm on twitter- @pandemia ehilà il sabato ci sarò, troppo interessante tra #personalopendata #vrm finalmente se ne parla anche in Italia .) #opendataitaly
- Je connais trop bien l'histoire #vrm
- #vrm in the making with a service dominant mindset: "Personal data warehouse for the HAT" http://t.co/HdnSwhVMca
- Personal Data can be monetized, believe me, I've tried… but is that really going to happen? http://t.co/mKY2g4xxXr #VRM #PersonalData
- RT @corkewallis: Intel Fuels a Rebellion around Your Data http://t.co/e0ysQmwKgv >@TechReview #vrm