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iNeed = Social + Local + Crowd + Mobile.

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Together with Simon Grice , we have founded iNeed which lets you & your friends help each other find trusted, local people to get things done. At its core is thinking from Clay Shirky on all things collaborative/ surplus and Doc Searls on all things VRM and Gift economy Lewis Hyde / wiki . In essence of Social + Local + Crowd + Mobile. We have just raised £50k using CrowdCube and now plan to take the alpha (which is live) to a functioning V1 platform before the end of the year. All support and insights are welcome. o         Facebook –  www.facebook.com/ineed.co.uk o         Twitter –  www.twitter.com/ineed o         Google+ -  https://plus.google.com/u/0/102319440131380044921

#PrivacyFix - excellent resource to help you manage privacy setttings from @privacychoice

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Source : https://privacyfix.com/start Instantly check your privacy settings across Facebook, Google and the other websites and companies collecting your data. Get to the fix with one click. Know when policies change. they don't collect any data from your use of Privacyfix….

@ForumOxford 2012 - Mobile startups - making the UK the next Silicon Valley.

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I am speaking at ForumOxford: Mobile Technologies Conference 2012 Mobile startups - making the UK the next Silicon Valley (23 November 2012) Unlike many large, impersonal conferences, ForumOxford is highly interactive and promotes open communication between participants and speakers - we expect in the range of 70 - 100 participants. The event is designed with ample Q&A time and opportunities for further discussions of the conference topics during breaks, over lunch and at the early evening drinks reception. No sales pitches - this is a conference for presentations, questions, answers and discussions More details www.conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/H600-22 Follow @ForumOxford on Twitter: @ForumOxford - http://twitter.com/ForumOxford

@ForumOxford 2012 - Mobile startups - making the UK the next Silicon Valley.

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I am speaking at ForumOxford: Mobile Technologies Conference 2012 Mobile startups - making the UK the next Silicon Valley (23 November 2012) Unlike many large, impersonal conferences, ForumOxford is highly interactive and promotes open communication between participants and speakers - we expect in the range of 70 - 100 participants. The event is designed with ample Q&A time and opportunities for further discussions of the conference topics during breaks, over lunch and at the early evening drinks reception. No sales pitches - this is a conference for presentations, questions, answers and discussions More details www.conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/H600-22 Follow @ForumOxford on Twitter: @ForumOxford - http://twitter.com/ForumOxford

@ForumOxford 2012 - Mobile startups - making the UK the next Silicon Valley.

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I am speaking at ForumOxford: Mobile Technologies Conference 2012 Mobile startups - making the UK the next Silicon Valley (23 November 2012) Unlike many large, impersonal conferences, ForumOxford is highly interactive and promotes open communication between participants and speakers - we expect in the range of 70 - 100 participants. The event is designed with ample Q&A time and opportunities for further discussions of the conference topics during breaks, over lunch and at the early evening drinks reception. No sales pitches - this is a conference for presentations, questions, answers and discussions More details www.conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/H600-22 Follow @ForumOxford on Twitter: @ForumOxford - http://twitter.com/ForumOxford

need some help on paradigm thinking about real time data!

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I have been doing some thinking about what real time means and I hope that this blog explains some thoughts. In the old world of data we collected lots of data and put in all into big databases and stored it. We then wrote cleaver algorithms to run over the data as analysis which gave insights such as context, feedback, fraud, behaviour and personalisation.   In my world I describe this as my rear view mirror. We collected data that we had just seen and then provided feedback on what had just happened. More recently we have dropped the store bit and instead use the real-time data feed to bring about immediate input what we are looking at based on sentiment, signals and intent. In my world I describe this as my head up display. We collected data that we had just seen (in the rear view now as passed it) but provide insights on what is happening. ---- The next point is a bit of a mind shift as it requires real time that is not generated by me, but could impact me. (Sensor data)  In

Google's Zero Moment of Truth (ZMOT) - amazing resource for online retail

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Google’s Zero Moment of Truth (ZMOT), Why consumers buying behaviour has changed forever. Up until now, leading brands have been the ones who consistently win at two ‘moments of truth’ for their consumers: The 1st moment is the consumer experience when they’re about to buy something; standing in front of a shelf with hand on the product The 2nd moment is what happens when they use it for the first time; opened the package and using the product Google argue that the ability to create and share your own content about brands has given birth to a new moment, the Zero Moment of Truth (ZMOT). Consumers can now discover a great deal about you before making a purchase; without going anywhere near your marketing or sales. Their research found that people now look at over 10 different sources of online information before making a purchase.  This means that as marketers we need to understand how to win at ZMOT and to explain this, work through your own model Step 1: what do I want to

A little off topic ....Why Radical Transparency Is Good Business, anyone ant to chat over a coffee?

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I registered two domains a while back www.OpenGovernance.og and www.OpenGovernance.net  and when I read this HBR article it reminded me why…. Why Radical Transparency Is Good Business….. The original idea came about as I was reading some new articles of association for a new company I have founded with Simon Grice. It came to me that so much of company policy was formed when communication were limited by pony express, seals and letters. Anyway this started a process that we are now living at iNeed  (the new company) where we are put together an investors page (we raised £50k on CrowdCube ) which is based on radical openness and we are also aiming at changing the whole process of openness and transparency I would love to find someone else who is interested in this topic to chat about it over a coffee

A little off topic ....Why Radical Transparency Is Good Business, anyone ant to chat over a coffee?

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I registered two domains a while back www.OpenGovernance.og and www.OpenGovernance.net  and when I read this HBR article it reminded me why…. Why Radical Transparency Is Good Business….. The original idea came about as I was reading some new articles of association for a new company I have founded with Simon Grice. It came to me that so much of company policy was formed when communication were limited by pony express, seals and letters. Anyway this started a process that we are now living at iNeed  (the new company) where we are put together an investors page (we raised £50k on CrowdCube ) which is based on radical openness and we are also aiming at changing the whole process of openness and transparency I would love to find someone else who is interested in this topic to chat about it over a coffee

Using data to determine if your PIN code for banking is unique

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@windley - why personal clouds?

Simple and eloquent [slideshare id=14593696&w=427&h=356&sc=no] <div style="margin-bottom:5px"> <strong> Why Personal Clouds </strong> from <strong> Phil Windley </strong> </div>

@DanielSolove on Do Young People Care About Privacy?

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Source : http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20121010201716-2259773-do-young-people-care-about-privacy by Daniel J. Solove is the John Marshall Harlan Research Professor of Law at George Washington University Law School, the founder of  TeachPrivacy , a privacy/data security training company, and a Senior Policy Advisor at Hogan Lovells.  Do Young People Care About Privacy? “A common argument I hear is that young people just don't care about privacy.  If they cared about privacy, why would they share so much personal data on Facebook?  Why would they text so much?  Why would they be so cavalier about their privacy?  Privacy will be dead in a generation, the argument goes.  This argument is wrong for several reasons.  Studies show that young people do care about privacy.  A few years ago, a  study by Chris Hoofnagle and others  revealed that young people's attitudes about privacy didn't differ much from older people's attitudes.   A more  recent study spons

@DanielSolove on Do Young People Care About Privacy?

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Source : http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20121010201716-2259773-do-young-people-care-about-privacy by Daniel J. Solove is the John Marshall Harlan Research Professor of Law at George Washington University Law School, the founder of  TeachPrivacy , a privacy/data security training company, and a Senior Policy Advisor at Hogan Lovells.  Do Young People Care About Privacy? “A common argument I hear is that young people just don't care about privacy.  If they cared about privacy, why would they share so much personal data on Facebook?  Why would they text so much?  Why would they be so cavalier about their privacy?  Privacy will be dead in a generation, the argument goes.  This argument is wrong for several reasons.  Studies show that young people do care about privacy.  A few years ago, a  study by Chris Hoofnagle and others  revealed that young people's attitudes about privacy didn't differ much from older people's attitudes.   A more  recent study spons

@DanielSolove on Do Young People Care About Privacy?

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Source : http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20121010201716-2259773-do-young-people-care-about-privacy by Daniel J. Solove is the John Marshall Harlan Research Professor of Law at George Washington University Law School, the founder of  TeachPrivacy , a privacy/data security training company, and a Senior Policy Advisor at Hogan Lovells.  Do Young People Care About Privacy? “A common argument I hear is that young people just don't care about privacy.  If they cared about privacy, why would they share so much personal data on Facebook?  Why would they text so much?  Why would they be so cavalier about their privacy?  Privacy will be dead in a generation, the argument goes.  This argument is wrong for several reasons.  Studies show that young people do care about privacy.  A few years ago, a  study by Chris Hoofnagle and others  revealed that young people's attitudes about privacy didn't differ much from older people's attitudes.   A more  recent study spons

Study Reveals Top 10 Ways Teens Are Fooling Their Parents

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70% of Teens Hide Their Online Behavior from Their Parents, McAfee Reveals What U.S. Teens are Really Doing Online, and How Little Their Parents Actually Know. Hidden Behavior Includes Everything from Adult Content to Cheating on School Work, Up from 45% since 2010 22.8% of Parents Are Overwhelmed by Technology and Just Hope for the Best Despite their awareness of online dangers, teens continue to take risks by posting personal information and risky photos online, unbeknownst to parents. Many teens are accessing inappropriate online content, despite 73.5% of parents whom trust their teens to not access age-inappropriate content online. Specifically 43% of teens have accessed simulated violence online, 36% have access sexual topics online, and 32% have accessed nude content or pornography online. Nearly half of parents believe their teens tell them everything they do online and insist they are in control when it comes to monitoring their teen’s online behaviors. However, the study

How Teens view their digital lives

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Source : Social Media, Social Life: How Teens View Their Digital Lives,   Download report from Common Sense Media .

How Teens view their digital lives

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Source : Social Media, Social Life: How Teens View Their Digital Lives,   Download report from Common Sense Media .

How Teens view their digital lives

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Source : Social Media, Social Life: How Teens View Their Digital Lives,   Download report from Common Sense Media .

Our children and their Digital Footprints

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Image : Just bringing together some work on kids and digital footprints 9 Tips for Managing Your Child’s Social Media Presence   TIPS FROM OUR SOURCES: DIGITAL LIFE – OUR KIDS’ CONNECTED CULTURE “Kids and Tech: Parenting Tips for a Digital Age”   3 Ways to Keep Tabs of Your Kids Online   Are You Ruining Your Child’s Reputation? Talking to Your Kids and Teens About Social Media and Sexting CyberSafe and savvy tips Media! Tech! Parenting! Please do send me any other links to add to this

great idea: Ambient Intelligence - apps that tell you what you tell them @visionmobile

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Source: http://www.visionmobile.com/blog/2012/10/ambient-intelligence-how-well-does-your-phone-know-you/ The article is not saying anything new, I just like the descriptor of “Ambient Intelligence”, what PEW called passive collection in the 2008 Digital Footprints report.

Rachel Botsman: The currency of the new economy is trust #TED @rachelbotsman

Why watch this one – is it all about your digital footprint Rachel Botsman is the co-author, with Roo Rogers, of the book  What's Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption , and she writes, consults and speaks on the power of collaboration and sharing through network technologies, and on how it will transform business, consumerism and the way we live. Her new work focuses on trust and reputation capital. She is the founder of  The Collaborative Lab , an innovation incubator that works with startups, big businesses and local governments to deliver innovative solutions based on the ideas of Collaborative Consumption. She has consulted to Fortune 500 companies and leading nonprofit organizations around the world on brand and innovation strategy, and was a former director at the  William J. Clinton Foundation . Botsman expands on her 2012 TEDTalk in  this article for Wired UK 

Grief in a Digital Age

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Source : http://www.lifeinsurancefinder.com.au/digital-mourning-online-grief-and-loss/ This is a link to a long post that deals with a bundle of tricky issues including trolls, planning for a digital death, online memorials, vandalism and dealing with death in an online world. Also check out  Grieving with Facebook  Conferences, Blogs, Websites, Books and Artists .   Facebook's Afterlife  published - " International media coverage ". 

Grief in a Digital Age

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Source : http://www.lifeinsurancefinder.com.au/digital-mourning-online-grief-and-loss/ This is a link to a long post that deals with a bundle of tricky issues including trolls, planning for a digital death, online memorials, vandalism and dealing with death in an online world. Also check out  Grieving with Facebook  Conferences, Blogs, Websites, Books and Artists .   Facebook's Afterlife  published - " International media coverage ". 

Grief in a Digital Age

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Source : http://www.lifeinsurancefinder.com.au/digital-mourning-online-grief-and-loss/ This is a link to a long post that deals with a bundle of tricky issues including trolls, planning for a digital death, online memorials, vandalism and dealing with death in an online world. Also check out  Grieving with Facebook  Conferences, Blogs, Websites, Books and Artists .   Facebook's Afterlife  published - " International media coverage ". 

6 selves of being digital: Digital Footprints #bonstewart

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Image : Source : http://theory.cribchronicles.com/2012/05/06/digital-identities-six-key-selves/ and read the comments at the end – below is a copy of the definitions provided Six Key Selves of Networked Publics from Bon   1. The Performative, Public Self The networked self is neither a discrete, unique snowflake that can be examined entirely unto itself, outside relationality, nor a generic group member. The networked self is linked in multiple, complex, individual node-to-node relationships with others as part of an ever-shifting public. It is also  performative , constituting itself within that public through its practices and gestures. Within network publics the performative self experiences both the flattening of hierarchies across space and status (I talked to theorist Henry Giroux on Twitter the other day! And he followed me back! Yay! Access!) and the network theory principle that big nodes are more likely to attract attention and links (Giroux didn’t actually talk back to me

6 selves of being digital: Digital Footprints #bonstewart

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Image : Source : http://theory.cribchronicles.com/2012/05/06/digital-identities-six-key-selves/ and read the comments at the end – below is a copy of the definitions provided Six Key Selves of Networked Publics from Bon   1. The Performative, Public Self The networked self is neither a discrete, unique snowflake that can be examined entirely unto itself, outside relationality, nor a generic group member. The networked self is linked in multiple, complex, individual node-to-node relationships with others as part of an ever-shifting public. It is also  performative , constituting itself within that public through its practices and gestures. Within network publics the performative self experiences both the flattening of hierarchies across space and status (I talked to theorist Henry Giroux on Twitter the other day! And he followed me back! Yay! Access!) and the network theory principle that big nodes are more likely to attract attention and links (Giroux didn’t actually talk back to me

thinking about defaults for your privacy settings - worth watching this.

Dan Ariely is professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics at Duke University. He is a founding member of the Center for Advanced Hindsight, and author of "Predictably Irrational."

Sneaky apps and your personal data

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Source : http://www.backgroundcheck.org

Sneaky apps and your personal data

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Source : http://www.backgroundcheck.org

Sneaky apps and your personal data

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Source : http://www.backgroundcheck.org

GAO report: Wireless consumers don't know how location data are shared

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This USA  study released Sept 12 by the Government Accountability Office suggests that the government could do more to protect consumer privacy when it comes to mobile device location data. The report, which was requested by Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.), concludes wireless companies are not fully explaining how they use location data culled from mobile phones. What GAO Found Using several methods of varying precision, mobile industry companies collect location data and use or share that data to provide users with location-based services, offer improved services, and increase revenue through targeted advertising. Location-based services provide consumers access to applications such as real-time navigation aids, access to free or reduced-cost mobile applications, and faster response from emergency services, among other potential benefits. However, the collection and sharing of location data also pose privacy risks. Specifically, privacy advocates said that consumers: (1) are generally