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The User Data Ecosystem Map

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source http://www.adotas.com/2012/01/the-user-data-ecosystem-visualized/

VRM thinking about supply chain eco-systems and impact on terms @dhinchcliffe @dsearls

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Original Article http://dionhinchcliffe.com/2011/09/12/exceeding-the-benefits-of-complexity-a-fractal-model-for-the-social-business-era/ This is more of a personal reference as thinking about VRM and Doc Searls work on changing who delivers the terms in the supply chain and the effects on the ecosystem, and his new book The Intention Economy Am thinking that as we move from a world where the last supplier in the chain defines the price based on some economics from a blend of brand, quality, availability and relationship to one where we add Privacy/ your Data to the equation.  This new term and condition says that I will either remain anonymous (hide my data), you can have (and exploit) this data for one use, you can have all my data ( some my digital locker) for one use, you can have some data for one use, and many other combinations getting to you can have all my data and everything else I generate for forever.  In doing so I can now determine a different pricing model as I ha

Google Brain: Are We Losing Our Memory to the Search Giant?

Source: http://mashable.com/2012/01/26/google-memory-loss/

Big Data - does anyone own data? Can anyone own data?

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If big data is about the explosion of data of all types — payment, location coordinates; attention, habits, machine data; my social data then only a fraction of that data (not yet information or knowledge) resides in traditional databases. Conceptually (the analysis of the data to create value) overwhelms traditional database and analytics tools, giving rise to a new generation of cloud computing technologies: the Hadoop data framework, NoSQL databases, and big data analytics. As addressed in the book, not all data is created equal (in value terms) and finding the right data, applying the right analytics to it, and letting it deal with real-world problems is hard work strategically. One session, in Davos (WEF) was called Decoding the Data Deluge, chaired by Jan Hesthaven, a professor of applied mathematics from Brown University, deals with the upside opportunity these huge data sets can enable. From the course description: It’s a funny thing about data: If you look up “data” in the

VRM thinking about supply chain eco-systems and impact on terms @dhinchcliffe @dsearls

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Original Article http://dionhinchcliffe.com/2011/09/12/exceeding-the-benefits-of-complexity-a-fractal-model-for-the-social-business-era/ This is more of a personal reference as thinking about VRM and Doc Searls work on changing who delivers the terms in the supply chain and the effects on the ecosystem, and his new book The Intention Economy Am thinking that as we move from a world where the last supplier in the chain defines the price based on some economics from a blend of brand, quality, availability and relationship to one where we add Privacy/ your Data to the equation.  This new term and condition says that I will either remain anonymous (hide my data), you can have (and exploit) this data for one use, you can have all my data ( some my digital locker) for one use, you can have some data for one use, and many other combinations getting to you can have all my data and everything else I generate for forever.  In doing so I can now determine a different pricing model as I ha

By 2017, Millennials; consumers now in their mid-teens to mid-30s, will have more spending power than any other generation.

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Bazaarvoice_Millennials_Infographic.pdf Download this file Bazaarvoice released this infographic about millennial customer aka the digital native.... the facebook generation, the screenager   By 2017, Millennials – those consumers now in their mid-teens to mid-30s – will have more spending power than any other generation. (5 years!) Millennials lean on UGC (user generated content) to purchase major electronics, cars, hotel stays, travel accommodations, apply for credit cards, and choose insurance providers. Gen-Y believes that other consumers care more about their opinions than companies do - and that's why they continue to share their opinions online. Millennialls trust strangers over friends and family.   http://www.bazaarvoice.com/static/download/Bazaarvoice_Millennials_Infographic.pdf

Applications: I am not a number; I am a tag : implementation

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    Verified tags As we have seen before, conferred identity (for example, a driving licence) can be used instead of the primary identity. For example, conferred identity can be used to buy a range of services in the physical world (for instance you can show your driving license to buy services). In the digital world, tags / avatars etc are all a form of identity. However, they are not verified. To achieve the concept of ‘I am not a number..’ you need a verified tag. How can we verify the tag? You could use something like the Liberty alliance or similar mechanism. But that’s too ‘top down’, complex and expensive. But let us put this in perspective first; as indicated before,  A phone call is not a transaction!. The stakes are a lot less lower. In this case, rather than a full fledged approach (such as liberty alliance), which is expensive, a simpler more organic approach could suffice. This approach is based on the concept of ‘Identity = reputation’. Reputation is what others say abo

I am a Tag....not an number

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I am a tag, not a number In my book titled  "Mobile Web 2.0" (published in 2006) Ajit (co-author) and I identified that mobileweb2.0 holds that the mean and mechanism by which I was uniquely identified by and could be associated with, which was a number; no longer holds true. The key aspect of this is that in the old world I was found, contacted utilising and was identified by numbers, this may have been a phone number or a passport number. In the new world I will be found and identified by tags, centred on who I am as identified by my name.  Further; it will not just be me, companies are identified by brands but we have to-date contacted or connected to them by numbers, now companies, using their brands and product names will be uniquely identified by these names.  Is there a real difference, in the consumers eyes; yes!, In deep technical aspects, probably not, since there will still be a mechanism for resolving names and numbers, but the value of resolving numbers (dire

True confession I have not looked at all 850million Facebook profiles

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True confession I have not looked at all 850million Facebook profiles - indeed there is not enough time in my life to do so.... however someone has looked through 4 million Generation Y Facebook profiles on Identified.com's database, Millennial Branding came up with this handy infographic on how millennials use Facebook professionally. Apparent trends include job hopping, identification by school rather than by job and high employment by startups rather than Fortune 500s.

Hi Folks

Hi Folks,  Thanks Tony for asking me to contribute over here. I've been a bit quiet on the blogging front of late, but things are certainly hotting up nicely now in the digital footprint/ personal data space so time to dust down my digital pen. I'll be writing mainly on 'VRM', personal data services, and the impact that I think these will have on the current organisational model which I think will be considerable - think EU Privacy policy and cookie directive impacts on steroids.... Cheers Iain

Big brother incorporated

http://www.pogowasright.org/?p=26013 Today Wikileaks releases nearly 1,100 internal documents, sales brochures and manuals for products sold by the manufacturers of systems for surveillance and the interception of telecommunications. These new leaks reveal a mass surveillance industry that’s now worth $5 billion a year, with technologies capable of spying on every telephone and Internet network on a national scale. The flagships of this market are called Nokia-Siemens, Qosmos, Nice, Verint, Hacking Team, Bluecoat and Amesys. The documents detailing their interception capabilities will be progressively released online by Wikileaks. OWNI, who worked in partnership with the Washington Post, The Hindu, L’Espresso, the German channel ARD and The Bureau of Investigative Journalism in this operation which has been dubbed the Spy Files, has attempted to present an overview of this new type of industry, by creating an interactive map and a dedicated site,  SpyFiles.org .  Andy Muelle

SOPA And The Film Industry

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So Likes can be gamed - so what happens when the price goes up.....

Here is a blog I wrote about how your likes can be gamed and when they are they become less of a signal and indeed can become worthless to a company. But thinking further....What if when you bought a new tech gizmo, the price was higher because your "Likes" or "tweets" constantly referenced your love and devotion for the product - and you did this as you wanted to win one? This is called online behavioural pricing (under the banner of behavioural economics .) Whilst if there was one supplier in the market, it could be a consumer’s worst nightmare as it uses the traces of your Digital Footprint to maximize prices on the products and services you want most. However, it rather directs us towards Doc Searls work on VRM - where we set the terms and the price.

Your digital footprint gives signals that relate to value.... unless you "like" something

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image source : https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL-efwGSHcNRPHw-Z1HXrTzOAiT9YT7Wr6s81_FPSAzgoaWxpvoo55nr9t1GZ19_WX_TqXZLOAMuswCGNNyjJzbqBWCLhwcyToqK1pyOEUOO-PmrN__p0GdyIH3p76v86ZR77FHwoI1Aw/ Some scenarios to think about Digital footprints are about how your data describes you - but as we start to game (gamification) with you and how you react, do we loose the purity of the signal? Example.... option 1; your "like" is being bought by the competitions that say "like me and get a free iPad"  - you have been bought option 2; your "like" is earned as you decide that you "like" something for a reason              the original reason " A Facebook Like is supposed to show a user’s approval of a brand, product or piece of content " option 3; Your "like" brings value to you and the community - self interest Experian Hitwise  calculated  that a Like generates 20 visits to brand sites; Deals plat

Screenagers - they behave differently to us in a digital world

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ScreenAgers (millennials, gen Y, facebook generation, born global) really don't respond to ads us, according to a new white paper from ComScore , based on nearly 1,000 TV tests and 35 digital advertising tests by its ARS copy testing group. Yet here's the rub: Young people have always tuned out TV ads more than others, according to ComScore, which has research on the subject dating five decades because of its 2010 acquisition of ARSgroup. The gap between younger and older largely disappears when it comes to digital ads, however. ComScore based the conclusions on surveys showing "share of choice," or the difference between groups of people exposed to ads and those not exposed when asked which among a set of competitive products they'd like to win. Among the key findings:... ScreenAgers (millennials, gen Y, facebook generation, born global) don't respond to TV ads as much as their elders. Younger people were less responsive to TV ads in studies from 1961,

Single Sign on Explained by @idmdude

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So what is SSO and why do I care? Original article from Bill Neilson This is a link to a good blog to SSO the acronym for “Single Sign-On”.  There are various forms of single sign-on with the most common being  Enterprise Single Sign-On  (ESSO) and Web Single Sign-On (WSSO).  Each method utilizes different technologies to reduce the number of times a user has to enter their username/password in order to gain access to protected resources.  The blog explains both.

Disqus research suggests people using pseudonyms leave better comments

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Disqus analyzed 500,000 comments made via their platform and found (shocker) that digital citizens using fictitious names (pseudonyms and persona), are actually responsible for the highest quantity and quality of comments on the web. They determined that  61 percent of its commenter's use pseudonyms , 35 percent remain anonymous and just 4 percent log in with Facebook to comment with their real identity. “ The average commenter using a pseudonym contributed 6.5 times more than anonymous commenters and 4.7 times more than commenters identifying with Facebook,” These partially veiled commenters are also soliciting more “likes” and replies — positive quality signals, according to Disqus — than their anonymous and real name counterparts. Sixty-one percent of comments made by people using pseudonyms showed  positive quality signals , while 51 percent of comments from those using their real names and 34 percent from the anonymous types possessed positive quality signals. And what

@nomic exploring the secret life of MMS data and the tradeoffs we inadvertently face as we choose convenience #digitalfootprint

Network is a remarkably piece of motion graphics by graphic design student Michael Rigley  exploring the secret life of our MMS data and the tradeoffs we inadvertently face as we choose convenience of communication over privacy and control of personal data.   Not sure about the "identity" link - but what is a word when the concept/ content is so good   [vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/34750078 w=400&h=225]

What's Your Influencing Style?

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A recent HBR paper What's Your Influencing Style? by Chris Musselwhite  president and CEO of  Discovery Learning Inc.  and  Tammie Plouffe  is the managing partner of  Innovative Pathways . In this digital word as we search for influencers - what type is the most effect and what is the signal we are looking for? Effective leadership today relies more than ever on influencing others — impacting their ideas, opinions, and actions.   From their research, they have a list of  five distinct influencing styles: rationalizing, asserting, negotiating, inspiring, and bridging. Rationalizing: Do you use logic, facts, and reasoning to present your ideas? Do you leverage your facts, logic, expertise, and experience to persuade others? Asserting : Do you rely on your personal confidence, rules, law, and authority to influence others? Do you insist that your ideas are heard and considered, even when others disagree? Do you challenge the ideas of others when they don't agree with

Marshall Kirkpatrick @marshallk has written an interesting post on RWW (Jan 2012) on Why Facebook's data sharing matters!

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Marshall Kirkpatrick has written an interesting post on RWW (Jan 2012) on Why Facebook's data sharing matters!   Starting out he states that Facebook has cut a deal with political website  Politico  that allows the independent site machine-access to Facebook users' messages, both public and private, when a Republican Presidential candidate is mentioned by name. The data is being collected and analyzed for sentiment by Facebook's data team , then delivered to Politico to serve as the basis of  data-driven political analysis and journalism .  Whilst the move is being  widely condemned in the press  as a violation of privacy but if Facebook would do this right, it could be a huge win for everyone. Facebook could be the biggest, most dynamic census of human opinion and interaction in history. Unfortunately, failure to talk prominently about privacy protections, failure to make this opt-in (or even opt out!) and the inclusion of private messages are all things that put at r

The Journey To Big Data Analytics from @chuckhollis. My comment this gives value to EMC but not to their customer

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The Journey To Big Data Analytics - so here http://chucksblog.emc.com/chucks_blog/2012/01/the-journey-to-big-data-analytics.html is a blog from Chuck Hollis VP, Global Marketing CTO EMC Corporation.  It is kind of interesting that they look at gathering data, storing data, analysing data and creating value aka the Digital Footprint business model - however they don't close the loop and complete the story.  They don't look into how to build it as a business for yourself and not them.  Great at selling a solution to the point where is has value for someone else but no growth for you.....  However it does put together the story, data scientist and what data if you need some back group.

Elizabeth Churchill @xeeliz discussing how we hide, reveal and misinterpret emotion online and off. #digitalfootprint

Elizabeth Churchill is the a Principal Research Scientist at Yahoo! Research, was the speaker at the October 2011  Creative Mornings  event in San Francisco. In her talk she discussed how we hide, reveal and misinterpret emotion online and off. [vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/34918667 w=400&h=225]<p> 2011/10 Elizabeth Churchill | Emotion from San Francisco Creative Mornings on Vimeo .</p>

Open Source Identity Management Systems - A comparison

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Image source : https://www.ohloh.net/p/compare?project_0=midPoint&project_1=OpenIdM&project_2=Syncope Radovan Semančík , presents an evaluation list of some open source identity management systems including MidPoint, OpenIAM, OpenIDM, Syncope here   - "customers are starting to realize that no vendor is stable enough to guarantee protection of their investment in IDM solution. This is partly caused by the fact that most IDM deployments are significantly customized and that there is no easy migration path from one product to the other. "Migration" of IDM deployment in fact means re-implementation from the ground up. Open source solutions provide better protection of investment - ability to stay with the same product even if "vendor" is dead. That was clearly demonstrated when ForgeRock took over OpenSSO product that Oracle abandoned. That was the first major case of this phenomenon but it is unlikely that it was the last one."  

Data Governance - what is it?

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image source : http://www.datagovernance.com/ - download the framework from http://www.datagovernance.com/dgi_framework.pdf or http://www.datagovernance.com/11x17_DGI_framework_poster_color.pdf Data governance is not fully defined and should be seen as an emerging discipline with an evolving definition. The discipline embodies a convergence of data quality, data management, data policies, business process management, and risk management surrounding the handling of data in an organization. Through data governance, organizations are looking to exercise positive control over the processes and methods used by their data stewards and data custodians to handle data. Data governance is at best a set of processes that ensures that important data assets are formally managed throughout the enterprise, ensures that data can be trusted and that people can be made accountable for any adverse event that happens because of low data quality. It is all about putting people in charge of fixing a

Future of Facebook Project: Society Video from @VENESSAMIEMIS

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http://futureoffacebook.com/ Facebook is a social phenomenon that’s sweeping the globe, enabling people to connect across geographic and cultural boundaries, share information, and build meaning and value together in new ways. What are the implications of a technology relentlessly embedding itself into our everyday social fabric? Contributors include Kevin Kelly (What Technology Wants, founder Wired), David Kirkpatrick (author The Facebook Effect), Howard Rheingold (author Smart Mobs), Nova Spivack (web innovator, co-founder Bottlenose), futurist Jamais Cascio, Doug Rushkoff (author Program or Be Programmed), Doc Searls (Berkman Center, author The Cluetrain Manifesto), social network research pioneer Valdis Krebs, cyborg anthropologist Amber Case, web anthropologist Stowe Boyd, innovation strategist Chris Arkenberg, Suzanne Fischer (curator Henry Ford Museum). [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTbboNQ31Ig]

Future of Facebook Project: Society Video from @VENESSAMIEMIS

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http://futureoffacebook.com/ Facebook is a social phenomenon that’s sweeping the globe, enabling people to connect across geographic and cultural boundaries, share information, and build meaning and value together in new ways. What are the implications of a technology relentlessly embedding itself into our everyday social fabric? Contributors include Kevin Kelly (What Technology Wants, founder Wired), David Kirkpatrick (author The Facebook Effect), Howard Rheingold (author Smart Mobs), Nova Spivack (web innovator, co-founder Bottlenose), futurist Jamais Cascio, Doug Rushkoff (author Program or Be Programmed), Doc Searls (Berkman Center, author The Cluetrain Manifesto), social network research pioneer Valdis Krebs, cyborg anthropologist Amber Case, web anthropologist Stowe Boyd, innovation strategist Chris Arkenberg, Suzanne Fischer (curator Henry Ford Museum). [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTbboNQ31Ig]

Future of Facebook Project: Society Video from @VENESSAMIEMIS

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http://futureoffacebook.com/ Facebook is a social phenomenon that’s sweeping the globe, enabling people to connect across geographic and cultural boundaries, share information, and build meaning and value together in new ways. What are the implications of a technology relentlessly embedding itself into our everyday social fabric? Contributors include Kevin Kelly (What Technology Wants, founder Wired), David Kirkpatrick (author The Facebook Effect), Howard Rheingold (author Smart Mobs), Nova Spivack (web innovator, co-founder Bottlenose), futurist Jamais Cascio, Doug Rushkoff (author Program or Be Programmed), Doc Searls (Berkman Center, author The Cluetrain Manifesto), social network research pioneer Valdis Krebs, cyborg anthropologist Amber Case, web anthropologist Stowe Boyd, innovation strategist Chris Arkenberg, Suzanne Fischer (curator Henry Ford Museum). [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTbboNQ31Ig]

Future of Facebook Project: Society Video from @VENESSAMIEMIS

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http://futureoffacebook.com/ Facebook is a social phenomenon that’s sweeping the globe, enabling people to connect across geographic and cultural boundaries, share information, and build meaning and value together in new ways. What are the implications of a technology relentlessly embedding itself into our everyday social fabric? Contributors include Kevin Kelly (What Technology Wants, founder Wired), David Kirkpatrick (author The Facebook Effect), Howard Rheingold (author Smart Mobs), Nova Spivack (web innovator, co-founder Bottlenose), futurist Jamais Cascio, Doug Rushkoff (author Program or Be Programmed), Doc Searls (Berkman Center, author The Cluetrain Manifesto), social network research pioneer Valdis Krebs, cyborg anthropologist Amber Case, web anthropologist Stowe Boyd, innovation strategist Chris Arkenberg, Suzanne Fischer (curator Henry Ford Museum). [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTbboNQ31Ig]

Future of Facebook Project: Society Video from @VENESSAMIEMIS

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http://futureoffacebook.com/ Facebook is a social phenomenon that’s sweeping the globe, enabling people to connect across geographic and cultural boundaries, share information, and build meaning and value together in new ways. What are the implications of a technology relentlessly embedding itself into our everyday social fabric? Contributors include Kevin Kelly (What Technology Wants, founder Wired), David Kirkpatrick (author The Facebook Effect), Howard Rheingold (author Smart Mobs), Nova Spivack (web innovator, co-founder Bottlenose), futurist Jamais Cascio, Doug Rushkoff (author Program or Be Programmed), Doc Searls (Berkman Center, author The Cluetrain Manifesto), social network research pioneer Valdis Krebs, cyborg anthropologist Amber Case, web anthropologist Stowe Boyd, innovation strategist Chris Arkenberg, Suzanne Fischer (curator Henry Ford Museum). [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTbboNQ31Ig]