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• FT.com / Comment & analysis / Editorial comment – A cloudy future for computing
  not sure FT is getting this right here
  (tags: cloud computing FT technology)
• Making Innovation Strategy Succeed
  a study is needed to discover that innovation is not R&D but a ‘core competency’. Oh and all innovative companies employ customer insight. No shift Sherlock.
  (tags: innovation business R&D technology)
• FORTUNE: Techland The hard side of Mister Softie
  sounds like Mafia behaviour to me. or just an offer start-ups simply can’t refuse?
  (tags: microsoft mafia startup web2.0 business dataportability)
• Doc Searls Weblog · Today’s re-reading assignment
  Becoming a blog-friendly company by chattering on blogs is like becoming a cat person by clawing your own couch and crapping in a litter box. You have to give the bloggers something to chat about.
  (tags: blogging docsearls business PR)
• What open code developers can teach PR | Linux Journal
  message to PR, not money or influence but what purpose and usefulness
  (tags: PR docsearls opensource development community purpose)
• Songbirdnest.com
  a desktop media player mashed-up with the Web, playing the music you want, from the sites you want, on the devices you want, challenging the conventions of discovery, purchase, consumption and organization of music on the Internet.
  (tags: opensource music webplayer applicaitons songbird openmedia)
• Study: Online privacy concerns rise – USATODAY.com
  privacy is a hot issue. still a long way to go but at least it’s on the agenda.
  (tags: privacy online security personal data ownership VRM)

Becoming a blog-friendly company by chattering on blogs is like becoming a cat person by clawing your own couch and crapping in a litter box. You have to give the bloggers something to chat about.
Don Marti in comment on Today’s re-reading assignment

via Doc

• Open source in ‘08: Break-outs and consolidation | Negative Approach – CNET Blogs
  (tags: opensource business trends)
• Steal This Wi-Fi
  Bruce Schneier on open wifi and security implications.
  (tags: wifi security open network legal)

• With friends like these … Tom Hodgkinson on the politics of the people behind Facebook | Technology | The Guardian
  seems a ‘tad’ paranoid. facebook is not evil I don’t think, just getting some things really wrong. Not more wrong that most companies or institutions, it’s just that they seem a lot more powerful.
  (tags: facebook advertising paranoia privacy CIA socialnetworks)
• EIU.com: Ready, Willing and Enabled: a formula for performance
  a lot of BS if you ask me. Surveys are bad data to start with and putting them into a PDF with lots of corporate lingo just doesn’t do it for me…
  (tags: economist enablement performance business organisations)
• Sears reacts to privacy issues – DMNews
  (tags: privacy sears customer data trust)
• ZSFA — Rails Is A Ghetto (2007-12-31)
  First grade rant. And makes sense. I didn’t know anything about Zed to start with but my impression is that he’s a guy who knows his stuff. And is right about business and software industry.
  (tags: rubyrails zed rant software)
• The Tide Shifts at CES | Linux Journal
  Lots of small things point toward increased user autonomy, originality, invention and engagement. The story isn’t just about What Big Companies Are Doing For You any more. It’s what you’re doing for yourself, and for whomever you like.
  (tags: docsearls internet tide autonomy engagement shift lockin opensource)
• White paper – distributed influence: quantifying the impact of social media « Technobabble 2.0
  haven’t read but let’s see what they say
  (tags: edelman socialmedia influence impact distributed whitepaper)
• Anna Pickard on remembering all your passwords | Technology | The Guardian
  another reason to start looking at how to take charge of my own data. why do I have to manage it on others’ platforms? passwords manage access to my data, I want to manage others’ access to my data.
  (tags: password data ownership security)
• Jay Parkinson, MD. A doctor in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and Manhattan.
  this is very cool
  (tags: health doctor practice businessmodel web)
• Should Web Giants Let Startups Use the Information They Have About You?
  data wars. going to get hotter. scraping for individuals is different from scraping to build a wobbly biz model for your site. to do away with scrapers, have your own platform for data.
  (tags: data ownership user platform scrapers)

• Using Creative Commons-type Legal Framework for Privacy / Ownership Rights – DataPortability.Public.General | Google Groups
  (tags: dataportability.org data ownership creativecommons privacy marketing)
• Stuck in the middle : Psychopaths in the software industry
  explains a lot! very good article and another reason why hierarchy is the worst system for managing people
  (tags: psychology psychopaths software people)
• Are You Paying Attention?: Individuals from Plaxo, Google and Facebook join DataPortability.org Workgroup
  (tags: dataportability plaxo google facebook ownership data privacy VRM)

• The Moral Instinct – New York Times
  (tags: morality instinct NYT illusions interesting)

• Links » Be Careful With The Social Graph
  one of the best takes on social graph
  (tags: socialgraph socialnetworks ben context relationships)

• The Coming War Over Healthcare (Hint: It’s Not The One You Think)
  the sooner we own our data, the better. anything to help individual’s reach to exceed marketer’s grasp!
  (tags: health JNJ marketing data privacy)
• Online Privacy’s Call to Arms
  important, customers voicing their displeasure at being tracked and data shared, now hitting companies’ wallets. no more privacy ‘trade-offs’ for discounts & goodies in user’s minds?! Let’s hope.
  (tags: data ownership control sears privacy security VRM marketing tracking)
• Inter-Sections » Blog Archive » How to recognise a good programmer
  what makes a good programmer. for those who are not programmers and need one.
  (tags: technology people programmer)
• Jeremiah Owyang Suggests some deliverables for DataPortability « Paying Attention
  worthy cause but, guys, deliverables?!
  (tags: dataportability deliverables owyang roadmap goals)

• The Social Customer Manifesto: VRM Scenarios
  (tags: VRM chriscarfi scenarios)
• Orbital collapses into administration | Off Licence News – The Voice Of Drinks Retailing
  Hugh on Twitter sayz all is well, it’s just the importer that went tits-up.
  (tags: stormhoek orbital wine business)

• How Investing in Intangibles — Like Employee Satisfaction — Translates into Financial Returns – Knowledge@Wharton
  “Traditional management theory treats workers like any other input — get as much out of them as possible and pay them as little as you can get away with.”
  sharedcopy: http://r5.sharedcopy.com/6gu3q#shcp1
  (tags: jan_08 knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu)
• 2007_11_09 VRM gathering in Chelsea – a photoset on Flickr
  Doc’s gone all B&W on VRM geek crowd. A VRM hacker session in my kitchen, a couple of months back.
  (tags: docsearls VRM chelsea kitchen hacker geek)

• Sutori.com
  interesting enough, show companies. they might get scared although not very much. yet.
  (tags: VRM JNJ customers companies rating community)
• Confronting the Reality of Web Services — HBS Working Knowledge
  it’s decades of proprietary systems catching up with business, not a problem with Web services! next step, use open standards and understand the web. note the point about ROI.
  (tags: webservices systemsintergration standards objectivity mcafee enterprise2.0 ROI)
• Software Soapbox: Master Data Management – Where IBM and VRM Meet
  interesting perspective from a systems architect and software developer at IBM
  (tags: IBM data customers storage information VRM privacy security objectivity)
• » Vendor relationship management: viable or theory? | Irregular Enterprise | ZDNet.com
  agree with Dennis, that’s why VRM has to be user/web driven and not industry/vendor driven. bloggers didn’t aim to change the media, they just got on with blogging, media are adjusting. same will have to happen for companies re VRM.
  (tags: VRM enterprise howlett software)
• Elance – Outsourcing to freelance programmers, web & logo designers, copywriters, illustrators and consultants | Elance
  Doc’s example of VRM. maybe.
  (tags: elance VRM example)