My Digital FootPrint

It is possible now to gather so much data but is all of it of any value?

Last night was my mashup event on Mashup TV, Pay TV, Over The Top (OTT) TV and DLNA - Where is the future for Multiscreen?  The speakers were Anthony Rose , Casey Harwood , David Cutts , David Mercer and Mark James  - moderated by Alan Patrick   - a write up from the event will be posted at the mashup blog One of the demo’s at the event was from Endurance Technology   and they showed what is possible with TV, interactions, pushing TV about the house and generally having some fun.  One aspect of their demo I found insightful….. Endurance were showcasing an example where someone watching a film and using an ipad to interact with the additional content and browse.  As adverts came on, they could have been determined from the analysis of the viewers “digital footprint” – check out my creepy post if you are worried about someone tracking/watching you, or by the traditional method of broadcast ads based on content and time of day.  However, what they also showed was the value of NOW.

Last night was my mashup event on Mashup TV, Pay TV, Over The Top (OTT) TV and DLNA - Where is the future for Multiscreen?  The speakers were Anthony Rose , Casey Harwood , David Cutts , David Mercer and Mark James  - moderated by Alan Patrick   - a write up from the event will be posted at the mashup blog One of the demo’s at the event was from Endurance Technology   and they showed what is possible with TV, interactions, pushing TV about the house and generally having some fun.  One aspect of their demo I found insightful….. Endurance were showcasing an example where someone watching a film and using an ipad to interact with the additional content and browse.  As adverts came on, they could have been determined from the analysis of the viewers “digital footprint” – check out my creepy post if you are worried about someone tracking/watching you, or by the traditional method of broadcast ads based on content and time of day.  However, what they also showed was the value of NOW.

Last night was my mashup event on Mashup TV, Pay TV, Over The Top (OTT) TV and DLNA - Where is the future for Multiscreen?  The speakers were Anthony Rose , Casey Harwood , David Cutts , David Mercer and Mark James  - moderated by Alan Patrick   - a write up from the event will be posted at the mashup blog One of the demo’s at the event was from Endurance Technology   and they showed what is possible with TV, interactions, pushing TV about the house and generally having some fun.  One aspect of their demo I found insightful….. Endurance were showcasing an example where someone watching a film and using an ipad to interact with the additional content and browse.  As adverts came on, they could have been determined from the analysis of the viewers “digital footprint” – check out my creepy post if you are worried about someone tracking/watching you, or by the traditional method of broadcast ads based on content and time of day.  However, what they also showed was the value of NOW.

  Why print with never die by a digital evangelist. And the reason is that, as of today, it is just too difficult to manage your data.  Two things have recently co-joined to make me think this.   Over the summer I purchased the Epson 650 scanner (awesome bit of kit) so that my daughters could scan old photo’s so that they could load images up to Facebook.  They got very board very quickly and I am left with about 5,000 pictures to do and I have become very selective about what I am now scanning. They also discovered that it is quicker to take a picture on their iphone of the desired picture and side load it.  Who says that they don’t get IT.   Over the weekend, whilst in the attic, I found my old Samsung Super 8mm camcorder.  After a quick clean of the battery terminals (note to self, again, don’t store anything with batteries) the machine pinged into life and we (family plus grandparents) spend Sunday laughing like man people at the poor camera work, our fabulous sense of fashion and

Both of these services analyse your patterns and email behaviour to make suggestions…..leaving the only question as “when will Gmail write the email for me, sent it and respond so I can spend all day on the beach?” * Got the wrong Bob *  is a new Labs feature aimed at sparing you this kind of embarrassment. Turn it on from the Labs tab under Gmail Settings, and based on the groups of people you email most often, Gmail will try to identify when you've accidentally included the wrong person — before it's too late. When's the last time you got an email from a stranger asking, "Are you sure you meant to send this to me ?" and promptly realized that you didn't? Sometimes these little mistakes are actually quite painful. Hate mail about your boss to your boss? Personal info to some random guy named Bob instead of Bob the HR rep? Doh! http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/new-in-labs-got-wrong-bob.html * Don’t forget Bob * …. Have you ever realized you mistaken

  Location should have created substantial new value on a mobile operators’ balance sheet.  In their rush to control and lock down this valuable data set, the operators set the charges to high and put up an impossible API; these actions meant that by-pass and alternatives would flourish and they have. Location is in so many ways unique to mobile, therefore we are right to question how an operator could try to capture some value back. Here is an idea for you (free)   I would like my operator to control the location that my applications sees, I want someone to become the intermediately and offer me a “trusted service”, as the value has migrated from the knowing location to managing it. Some example:- Rich and Famous - you want to tweet your latest update with your location. Would be good but this means the Mr Robber and Mrs Burglar know that you are out or somewhere.  Please can someone allow me to put a false location on my tweets for a period to protect my privacy. Celebrity – you want

  Location should have created substantial new value on a mobile operators’ balance sheet.  In their rush to control and lock down this valuable data set, the operators set the charges to high and put up an impossible API; these actions meant that by-pass and alternatives would flourish and they have. Location is in so many ways unique to mobile, therefore we are right to question how an operator could try to capture some value back. Here is an idea for you (free)   I would like my operator to control the location that my applications sees, I want someone to become the intermediately and offer me a “trusted service”, as the value has migrated from the knowing location to managing it. Some example:- Rich and Famous - you want to tweet your latest update with your location. Would be good but this means the Mr Robber and Mrs Burglar know that you are out or somewhere.  Please can someone allow me to put a false location on my tweets for a period to protect my privacy. Celebrity – you want

  Location should have created substantial new value on a mobile operators’ balance sheet.  In their rush to control and lock down this valuable data set, the operators set the charges to high and put up an impossible API; these actions meant that by-pass and alternatives would flourish and they have. Location is in so many ways unique to mobile, therefore we are right to question how an operator could try to capture some value back. Here is an idea for you (free)   I would like my operator to control the location that my applications sees, I want someone to become the intermediately and offer me a “trusted service”, as the value has migrated from the knowing location to managing it. Some example:- Rich and Famous - you want to tweet your latest update with your location. Would be good but this means the Mr Robber and Mrs Burglar know that you are out or somewhere.  Please can someone allow me to put a false location on my tweets for a period to protect my privacy. Celebrity – you want

The FT do some fabulous podcasts The first part of the Digital business one this week is quite thought provoking. Peter Whitehead speaks about what he terms the "satnav generation" and how we may be placing too much emphasis on technical ability over context. http://podcast.ft.com/index.php?pid=723 He explores the idea that the digital natives (those who have grown up in the digital age) have a downside insomuch as they are a “mapless” generation.  Digital natives can get from A to B beautifully and easily, follow the instructions; however they don’t know where they are.  They don’t have any context.   Peter extends this to the idea they can answer any question, but do not know where the information fits.  The point being that information without context is dangerous and naïve as growing up is the move from information and data to become knowledge and intelligence.  He rounds the short piece off with the concept that digital native generation may be poor decision makers

The FT do some fabulous podcasts The first part of the Digital business one this week is quite thought provoking. Peter Whitehead speaks about what he terms the "satnav generation" and how we may be placing too much emphasis on technical ability over context. http://podcast.ft.com/index.php?pid=723 He explores the idea that the digital natives (those who have grown up in the digital age) have a downside insomuch as they are a “mapless” generation.  Digital natives can get from A to B beautifully and easily, follow the instructions; however they don’t know where they are.  They don’t have any context.   Peter extends this to the idea they can answer any question, but do not know where the information fits.  The point being that information without context is dangerous and naïve as growing up is the move from information and data to become knowledge and intelligence.  He rounds the short piece off with the concept that digital native generation may be poor decision makers

The FT do some fabulous podcasts The first part of the Digital business one this week is quite thought provoking. Peter Whitehead speaks about what he terms the "satnav generation" and how we may be placing too much emphasis on technical ability over context. http://podcast.ft.com/index.php?pid=723 He explores the idea that the digital natives (those who have grown up in the digital age) have a downside insomuch as they are a “mapless” generation.  Digital natives can get from A to B beautifully and easily, follow the instructions; however they don’t know where they are.  They don’t have any context.   Peter extends this to the idea they can answer any question, but do not know where the information fits.  The point being that information without context is dangerous and naïve as growing up is the move from information and data to become knowledge and intelligence.  He rounds the short piece off with the concept that digital native generation may be poor decision makers

  Knowing that your or my digital footprint is what I say about myself, what others say about me and it is how we react to our content within the community. However, digital footprint data is also about information that electronic devices automatically add to content, location, attention, how I reached something, who sent me the content, who I send it on to. Also read this post  http://blog.mydigitalfootprint.com/when-you-cross-this-line-updated-definition-o   Therefore I am considering using this model/diagram to help explain My Digital Footprint, Your Digital Footprint and what digital footprints are about.   Love any feedback to make this a simple model.   On it's own your digital footprint has little value - yes it provides a representation (if open, honest and transparent) of the physical you, therefore can link to reputation and identity. However, you trade yourself and your data in the exchange for free web services (search, email etc). Knowing how to reach you and your inte

March 5th 2010

Footprinting as a term, I did not know of until yesterday. However it does what it says on the tin; depending on your preference. In a computing world it is used in reference to deep stuff such as DNS and other IP data from the ‘system’ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footprinting Outside of the tech world footprinting is an audit that provides an assessment of substances, so a footprint could show the carbon emissions that a mobile phone manufacturer is responsible for in a 6-month period across its total organisation, or the carbon impact from the manufacture of a single handset. More and image from http://www.wspenvironmental.com/expertise/footprint-definitions Why is this interesting to My Digital Footprint – more data. As I expand the data input model from just your digital data, footprinting (outside tech) could give you more information on the consequences of what you have done – that does become interesting.