• SpinVox – Blog
  good response. seems some people don't understand why disclosing the % of human processes voicemails is sensitive information.
  (tags: spinvox technology human PR communications business)

• Yoz Grahame's Unresolvable Discrepancy » Blog Archive » Journalism is picking up the phone
  highly recommended reading if interested in the AP's 'bag of magic beans'.
  (tags: journalism AP newspapers media DRM microformats)

• foursquare
  interesting, but no point in signing up until they have London in there..
  (tags: foursquare mobile socialmedia)
• Top 5 Funniest Fake Facebook Pages
  some of it is even amusing.
  (tags: facebook funny fake humour)
• Changing organizational structure to increase productivity – McKinsey Quarterly – Organization – Strategic Organization
  enterprise as a provider, not enabler. until such time when formal networks are superceded by 'personal' or informal network, i.e. driven by employees, not the organisation or processes, there is no hope for enterprise 2.0 or some such. the whole point of web 2.0 and social software is that it is not a provider but enabler, it's not user-centric but ultimately user-driven. Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mckinseyquarterly.com%2FOrganization%2FStrategic_Organization%2FThe_21st-century_organization_1628%3Fgp%3D1
  (tags: enterprise2.0 business organisation hierarchy socialmedia socialsoftware mckinsey)
• Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule
  this is brilliant and so helpful in explaining my current dilemmas in arranging my days and craving what amounts to withdrawal from the usual scene. In fact, it's wanting to switch from manager's schedule to maker's schedule – really makes sense. hopefully it'll be come easier now.
  (tags: Management Time creativity interesting tips howto)

• How 31 Year Olds Consume Media : Dan Wilson's Blog
  sadly spot on!
  (tags: media funny consumer socialmedia demographics)
• Scanaroo
  chris carfi's VRM app for loyalty cards
  (tags: VRM applications)
• The Pushbutton Web: Realtime Becomes Real – Anil Dash
  Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fdashes.com%2Fanil%2F2009%2F07%2Fthe-pushbutton-web-realtime-becomes-real.html
  (tags: no_tag)

• apophenia: Understanding retweeting on Twitter
  (tags: twitter danahboyd behaviour)
• CrapHammer: I am not an influencer and we are not friends (try 2)
  sticking it to the PR man/woman Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.craphammer.ca%2F2009%2F07%2Fi-am-not-an-influencer-and-we-are-not-friends.html
  (tags: PR spam relationship conversation comment influencer)

What is a PR lackey tasked to incent and measure massive viral reach via SPAM emails to do???

Die, hopefully.

- Sean Howard in I am not an influencer and we are not friends (try 2)

• SAP’s John Schwarz on Analytics | Venture Chronicles
  Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fjeffnolan.com%2Fwp%2F2009%2F07%2F25%2Fsaps-john-schwarz-on-analytics
  (tags: SAP jeffnolan data analysis structured semantic)
• Aeroseek: Real-Time Flight Tracker – Flight Tracking
  via simon phipps
  (tags: travel flight tracking airline aviation googleEarth)
• Projection on Buildings on Vimeo
  very cool but why does it have to be used as 'communication' or advertising. another interruption in the making?!
  (tags: projection advertising 3D)
• Diller Calls Free Web Content a ‘Myth, Joins Refrain (Update1) – Bloomberg.com
  oh dear. Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bloomberg.com%2Fapps%2Fnews%3Fpid%3D20601087%26sid%3DaZeenjkAYFIE
  (tags: journalism media online businessmodel FAIL)

• An Apology from Amazon – kindle Discussion Forum
  at least an unreserved apology by Jeff Bezos. nice to see that. either he means it
  (tags: amazon kindle apology)

• links for 2009-07-24 [on Simon Phipps, SunMink]
  Simon sums up how I feel about this – the fact Amazon could do this in the first place is the problem.
  (tags: simonphipps amazon kindle bigbrother DRM copyright control)
• 15 Top Privacy Policies, Analyzed – ReadWriteEnterprise
  Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.readwriteweb.com%2Fenterprise%2F2009%2F07%2F15-top-privacy-policies-analyz.php
  (tags: marketRIOT readwriteweb policy privacy customer data webservices)
• Microsoft Patches Linux
  (tags: opensource Linux microsoft)

• HSBC companies slapped with £3m fines over data breaches – Software – Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com
  Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fsoftware.silicon.com%2Fsecurity%2F0%2C39024655%2C39462539%2C00.htm%3Fs_cid%3D105
  (tags: hsbc data marketRIOT customers financial)
• Lesson From Tor Hack: Anonymity and Privacy Aren't the Same
  excellent exposition of Tor, what it does and what it doesn't and why anonymity and encryption go hand in hand. Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.schneier.com%2Fessay-182.html
  (tags: anonymity tor security internet politics privacy hackers)
• The Carol syndrome
  fantastic! almost makes you enjoy math. almost.
  (tags: carol women attractive math probability syndrome)

• HSBC companies slapped with £3m fines over data breaches – Software – Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com
  Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fsoftware.silicon.com%2Fsecurity%2F0%2C39024655%2C39462539%2C00.htm%3Fs_cid%3D105
  (tags: hsbc data marketRIOT customers financial)
• Lesson From Tor Hack: Anonymity and Privacy Aren't the Same
  excellent exposition of Tor, what it does and what it doesn't and why anonymity and encryption go hand in hand. Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.schneier.com%2Fessay-182.html
  (tags: anonymity tor security internet politics privacy hackers)
• The Carol syndrome
  fantastic! almost makes you enjoy math. almost.
  (tags: carol women attractive math probability syndrome)

The sign up page is up. This month we are doing a summer version of VRM Hub evening and will be meeting at Henry J. Beans‘ beer garden in the King’s Road, Chelsea at 6pm onwards.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

crossposted from VRM Hub