• Links » Identification Is Not Security
  (tags: security internet benlaurie stanford NYT identity identification)
• Do We Need a New Internet? – NYTimes.com
  (tags: internet security identification stupid stanford)
• Facebook's New Terms Of Service: "We Can Do Anything We Want With Your Content. Forever."
  (tags: privacy web2.0 security facebook TOS consumerist ethics)

• Web App Wednesday – Occasionally interesting, often trivial, always original.
  (tags: web2.0 programming python apps opensource applications)
• OpenGoo: An Open Source Web Office
  (tags: web2.0 tools opensource productivity free management office applications)

• The iPhone Becomes a Web Server – ReadWriteWeb
  interesting. mobile Mine! next?
  (tags: apps apple iphone webservices readwriteweb japan servers Mine!)
• YouTube – Sushi Conveyor　回転寿司　かいてんずし
  very cool
  (tags: sushi food Mine! japan interesting video camera)
• To be or not to be Wilhelm – Undercurrent
  importance of fact checking
  (tags: wikipedia Germany newspapers funny interesting)
• Bespin » Code in the Cloud
  (tags: web2.0 tools opensource innovation webdesign browser mozilla)

• Behavioural economics and credit-card payments | A nudge in the wrong direction | The Economist
  fascinating
  (tags: creditcard behaviour psychology financial)

• Behavioural economics and credit-card payments | A nudge in the wrong direction | The Economist
  fascinating
  (tags: creditcard behaviour psychology financial)
• NIN case study video: Connect with Fans + Reason to Buy – Creative Commons
  (tags: business copyright music IP businessmodels creativecommons techdirt)
• Twitter Mosaic: Make Art from Twitter (and then buy it!)
  this is kinda cool
  (tags: twitter art tools interesting)
• National Post reporter has total Twitter melt down | MediaStyle
  a twitter bun fight between a journo and a marketer.
  (tags: business marketing twitter communication casestudy journalism)
• globeandmail.com: Professor makes his mark, but it costs him his job
  very interesting. top marks for the courage to experiment. Geddit?!
  (tags: interesting freedom education failure inspiration learning teaching academia)
• Fog Creek Copilot – Home
  helping to fix someone's computer
  (tags: business web tools internet computer IT)
• Kilmer House » 1893, 1907, 1929 and Today
  fascinating aspect of Johnson & Johnson history. I especially like the account of different 'Panics', a term later changed into 'Depression' as less worrying! A company that survives all this pretty much intact must have the ability to 'reinvent' its approach from time to time – easier done if the purpose is clear and steady.
  (tags: J&J history depression company principles)

The next VRM Hub meeting is on Thursday 26th February, 6-9pm at the same venue as the last month – GfK NOP building in Southwark, Room 15, 9th floor, Ludgate House, 245 Blackfriars Road, London SE1 9UL (map).

The topic will be further discussion of VRM – ideas, concepts, definitions, explanations etc, – a follow up on the game playing at the January session. Those who didn’t take part, do not fear, we have detailed notes on the results of January Game Playing.

Sign up here.

• Pandora's Skull: All the Twittered Shakespeare Synopses
  wonderful!
  (tags: funny twitter shakespeare summary)
• Twitter Fast Growing Beyond its Messaging Roots | Epicenter from Wired.com
  (tags: web2.0 tools applications twitter innovation creativity hacks socialmedia)
• Onion video nails gadgets and marketing – Boing Boing
  a few minutes of blissful respite
  (tags: technology video humor sony marketing)
• Epeus' epigone: Call Off the Search
  excellent reminder in Kevin's old post about search, discovery and networks. timely as more and more things can be found in ways other than searching…
  (tags: search discovery google technorati kevinmarks networks twitter)
• Where's your data? (Scripting News)
  look out for Mine!
  (tags: data security blogging dataportability wordpress cloud backup metadata Mine!)
• The State of Blogging Sucks | Craig Burton
  yep, gimme my data. typepad really doesn't cut it and neither do most hosted web apps.
  (tags: blogging dataportability wordpress backup typepad)
• Facebook Opens Status API, Say Goodbye to Twitter
  battle of giant platforms? oh well.
  (tags: socialmedia facebook twitter socialnetworks api open)

• Little Bay: New Economic Paradigm, Same Old Food – Londonist
  pay what you think it's worth for your meal. contemplated this model ages ago, thought it would work, though not as simple as it may seem. review in the free londonpaper reports people pay more than list price. it turns the tables, pardon the pun, and let's customer pay on their own terms. scary. would like to see more of this, may become all the rage during the depression.
  (tags: VRM customer restaurant Mine! recession food)
• Official Gmail Blog: Tasks: Paper vs. iPhone
  looks good. testing it
  (tags: google tasks organization productivity gmail gtd management)
• VRM Hub » Anonymised data a relationship doesn’t make
  (tags: VRM data relationship anonymity automation vendors customers)
• Rob Cockerham writes article critical of Cash4Gold, gets offered cash to kill story – Boing Boing
  first comment on the post nails it. the marketer in this case is like a mafia henchmen doing the business's dirty work. in case you wondered, yes, I am biased against marketers. Stories like this should explain why.
  (tags: socialmedia funny blogs reputation corporate casestudy branding marketing)

• nakedjen: I Guess The Word Naked Is Pornographic Now
  (tags: facebook data stupid socialnetworks mydata platforms)
• Fwd: RSS feeds and event aggregation – DataPortability.General | Google Groups
  why companies are thousand years behind on the web…
  (tags: web online data RSS business stupid)
• VRM – It’s all about the Customer « mfmoline
  (tags: VRM customer CRM retail)

• English Russia » Dior Cruel Trick
  this is fascinating. need to more of this to drive home the horrors of communism. truly.
  (tags: communism design fashion russia retro advertising moscow interesting)

• Martini: the adulterer's cocktail of choice – Times Online
  my dry martini – a mere whisper of Noilly Prat (cold from fridge) with a Grey Goose vodka (syrupy from freezer). Divine
  (tags: gin martini drink Mine! recipe)
• wiki.dbpedia.org : About
  knowledge mining
  (tags: web2.0 web data tools opensource wikipedia mashup analysis database knowledge semanticweb web3.0 datamining)

• GOOD » The Quantified Self: You Are Your Data»
  interesting….
  (tags: technology internet identity individual data Mine!)
• Kevin Kelly — The Technium
  this is all very well but this wonderful screed about ownership vs renting forgets an important issue of the 'consumer' being a creator, producer and distributor. That brings in 'ownership' via back door or at least models based on recognition that demand and supply are not intertwined in ways previously unseen.
  (tags: business web internet media trends copyright music sharing free ownership economics property economy)
• Hilarious: Technical analysis predicts trouble
  wonderful!
  (tags: humour funny analysis graphs prediction)