My Digital FootPrint

Ajit Jaokar posted yesterday, “The fallacy of the Better mousetrap: Privacy advocates want to have their cake and eat it too” on his open gardens blog http://opengardensblog.futuretext.com/archives/2010/03/the_fallacy_of.html As always is view is provocative and looking for views that means we move towards a better understanding.  It is based on a curiously mis-titled article from Julie Meyer called 'Why the IT sector is vital for small firms' The article is actually about privacy, digital footprint etc and it says: “If they (Google) don't cut the individual into receiving a piece of the value of their personal information, as it is used in search and purchase transactions, someone will, and that new party will rise to dominance.” Ajit post looks at a photo of you (without your permission) winning  a competition and you rock up asking for a share of the prize money. My take on his post is that there is no value in your photo (or you being in the photo) - if your phot

Image from Greenpeace 31 March 2010  Greenpeace criticises coal-fuelled internet cloud o n the day the iPad goes live and the web is awash with articles following yesterdays views based on the Greenpeace report that t he 'cloud' of data which is becoming the heart of the internet is creating an all-too-real cloud of pollution as Facebook, Apple and others build data centers powered by coal. “If considered as a country, global telecommunications and data centres behind cloud computing would have ranked fifth in the world for energy use in 2007, behind the United States, China, Russia and Japan” Greenpeace have said. http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/ipad-cloud-climate-change-290310 http://www.greenpeace.org/international/press/reports/make-it-green-cloud-computing "The last thing we need is for more cloud infrastructure to be built in places where it increases demand for dirty coal-fired power," said Greenpeace, which argues that web companies should be mor

The Technology Strategy Board is to invest up to £10 million in new research projects that will help accelerate the development and deployment of more secure and trustworthy information systems within Digital Britain and the wider global economy. Brief http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition/trusted-services-competition.ashx To register http://engage.innovateuk.org/technologystrategyboardlz//EventMgr_ShowEvent1.aspx?eID=12 Press release http://www.innovateuk.org/content/news/british-companies-challenged-to-develop-technology.ashx The competition is to encourage innovative British companies to develop tools, techniques and services that will target the increasing risks that consumers, businesses and public sector organisations face, while also providing significant market opportunities to build a strong capability base in the UK. The £10m to be invested in the R&D includes £2m from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and £300,000 from the Economic an

Image from   My comments on the blog post from Michael Arrington of TechCrunch I am comment 248 in a long line or rant and raves at TechCrunch, in true Arrington style he asserted that individual opinions are so wide spread that you cannot control or mange your online reputation and ultimately the public will grow immune to any indiscretions.    From what I read the post and the comments miss some critically important points: the web is a live feedback model – what is described in the original post and many of the comments hark back to the old linear print model, simple in and out. The web is feedback, hone, improve, context and build. reputation is not just about “PC, in whatever form it is” generated data, it is about unique mobile data, PC and TV data and mobile data that adds to your reputation is way more important than some small blog about that party lsat week …..     PC crew, get over it, mobile is the new black Reputation is an output from analysis – not an input Reputation

Image from   My comments on the blog post from Michael Arrington of TechCrunch I am comment 248 in a long line or rant and raves at TechCrunch, in true Arrington style he asserted that individual opinions are so wide spread that you cannot control or mange your online reputation and ultimately the public will grow immune to any indiscretions.    From what I read the post and the comments miss some critically important points: the web is a live feedback model – what is described in the original post and many of the comments hark back to the old linear print model, simple in and out. The web is feedback, hone, improve, context and build. reputation is not just about “PC, in whatever form it is” generated data, it is about unique mobile data, PC and TV data and mobile data that adds to your reputation is way more important than some small blog about that party lsat week …..     PC crew, get over it, mobile is the new black Reputation is an output from analysis – not an input Reputation

Last night I spoke at mashup’s event on Digital Identity: the value of digital you with Nicky Hickman, Robin Wilton, Alan Moore and David Rennie My views from the session are that Digital Identity is still at the early stages of debate and discussion even though there is an increasing number of experts who deeply understand the issues, the overriding focus is still an argument about what “words” mean – the image gives some of the words that went round. Digital Identity is a complex issue crossing many boundaries and professional disciplines. We tend to have many persona, we are no longer owned by a Brand, we know many people with whom we have a different relationship with and know to different degrees and understanding, we don’t tend to reveal all to everyone, you cannot own your data, people are lazy and don’t do things even though they could, value depends on who the giver and receiver is. Identity is a negotiation and in reality we are the product that is traded. Two good quo

I spoke at Olswangs’ event on digital identity – here is the link to the interview video footage http://www.knowledgepeers.com/networks/333/item.html?id=4130