My Digital FootPrint

  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 t...

  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 t...

  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 t...

  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 t...

https://www.recordedfuture.com/how-media-analytics-works.html The value of your digital footprint is in the analysis – not sure if this really does anything new or different but good to make you think.

Guest blog from Ajit Jaokar .   Original post is here Overview The many privacy related issues raised by the Web will be amplified in the world of mobility and even more so, in a world dominated by sensor networks. Current thinking seems to converge on one important conclusion: through the combined interaction of law, technology and Internet literacy, people should be in a position to control how their own personal information is made available and used for commercial (or other) purposes. In this post, we explore the feasibility of users managing their own data. i.e. if we indeed want users to manage their own data, what are the issues involved in making this happen? We also look at an alternative i.e. allowing devices to mirror social privacy norms. Hence, I see the discussion as ‘Changing user behaviour to incorporate new device functionality’ OR ‘Changing device behaviour to mirror privacy expectations in human interactions Privacy and management of data – A ba...

Golden wedding celebrations for Mr and Mrs Fish (senior)

Golden wedding celebrations for Mr and Mrs Fish (senior)

Golden wedding celebrations for Mr and Mrs Fish (senior)

    From CEO to employee with an opinion, we all share at least a slight intrigue about how much someone can find out about us from the web.  Further, we have become aware that our initial personal and/or company brand/ reputation is often determined by what someone else can find out from the web prior to meeting or buying. Given these views, here are a few guides lines for a quick digital footprint audit and "how to" find out what the web "may share" about you and or your company.  1.  search engines             a. Search for your name/nickname, and try more than Google                - http://www.20search.com/   (if you ever get the chance, search from outside your home/work   PC as this will distort your results and even better search from outside of the country!              b. Search for your name/ company in quotes "tony...

I have a netvibes universe at http://www.netvibes.com/mobileweb20 This is where I add interesting and relevant reading about the topics I follow. If you have any great recommendations that I should add, please let me know.

I have provided an update for netlingo, if you want to update their terms the contact is Erin Jansen (Author+Founder) ---- A digital footprint is the record of your interactions with the digital world and how the data that is left behind can be exploited. The interactions and data that create the digital footprint includes: (1) The content a user leaves about themselves and the content that others leave about the user in the web. The user generated data and content includes blogs, comments left on public sites, photo's or a profile uploaded and content a user creates on a social networking site. The content left by other is the move from a user as a single individual to that user being part of the social group. (2) Explicit data from the interactions a user has with the web. This is where a users activities is captured, the types of details captured include   web   pages   viewed, the frequency of visits along with the intervals between them, clicks, the time spen...

I have provided an update for netlingo, if you want to update their terms the contact is Erin Jansen (Author+Founder) ---- A digital footprint is the record of your interactions with the digital world and how the data that is left behind can be exploited. The interactions and data that create the digital footprint includes: (1) The content a user leaves about themselves and the content that others leave about the user in the web. The user generated data and content includes blogs, comments left on public sites, photo's or a profile uploaded and content a user creates on a social networking site. The content left by other is the move from a user as a single individual to that user being part of the social group. (2) Explicit data from the interactions a user has with the web. This is where a users activities is captured, the types of details captured include   web   pages   viewed, the frequency of visits along with the intervals between them, clicks, the time spen...

London , November 2007 ViewPoint This Viewpoint explains the power of 2.0 (two dot zero) ideals, why 'Mobile Web 2.0' centres on the unique value created by "mobile metadata" and why AMF Ventures believes that Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google, understands that the ownership of mobile metadata will create more shareholder value than search! Every CxO seeking to deliver any aspect of a convergent solution should read and debate this viewpoint as it impacts: mobile operators, handset manufactures, equipment supplies, platform supplier, application developers, middleware, venture capital, advertisers, consumer brands, media companies and agencies; the digital players. Introduction Web 2.0 talks of “harnessing collective intelligence”. This viewpoint presents the idea of extending this concept to the realm of mobile Digital Footprints and explores where shareholder value will be created. At the forefront of “harnessing collective intelligence” is the mobile device, a...

“How data analytics help to monetise the user base in telecoms, social networks media and advertising in a converged ecosystem” Ajit Jaokar, Brian Jacobs, Alan Moore and Jouko Ahvenainen http://socialmediamarketing.futuretext.com/ Before you read my review of this book, you need to know that I am not entirely without bias. I am the co-author with Ajit for “mobile web 2.0” and Open Gardens”.  I know Alan Moore and we have spend time working up ideas.  I know Jouko Ahvenainen from xtract and I am a major supporter of his company.  I don’t know Brian. I am about to publish “My Digital Footprint” http://www.mydigitalfootprint.com which has a high degree of correlation to many of the topics cover in this book, so I am very sympathetic to the focus and emphasis. This is an airplane book, easy to read and you can get through it in a round trip to Barcelona.   It is not a detailed read as it is about setting up a...

“How data analytics help to monetise the user base in telecoms, social networks media and advertising in a converged ecosystem” Ajit Jaokar, Brian Jacobs, Alan Moore and Jouko Ahvenainen http://socialmediamarketing.futuretext.com/ Before you read my review of this book, you need to know that I am not entirely without bias. I am the co-author with Ajit for “mobile web 2.0” and Open Gardens”.  I know Alan Moore and we have spend time working up ideas.  I know Jouko Ahvenainen from xtract and I am a major supporter of his company.  I don’t know Brian. I am about to publish “My Digital Footprint” http://www.mydigitalfootprint.com which has a high degree of correlation to many of the topics cover in this book, so I am very sympathetic to the focus and emphasis. This is an airplane book, easy to read and you can get through it in a round trip to Barcelona.   It is not a detailed read as it is about setting up a...

Migrating some original work from May 2007 Why does “Eric Schmitt” the CEO of Google say that “mobile, mobile, mobile” is the next opportunity. My viewpoint is that the ownership of mobile originated data is the opportunity. Within my understanding; 2.0 as a movement is about the network effect, collective intelligence, wisdom of crowds, tribes, clans, clubs and all other manner of long tail matters. Web 2.0 is the passing phase from1.0; which centred on cost reduction and brand values. Moving from 1.0 to 2.0 is the same as moving from separation, isolation and solitude to relationship, engagement and conversation. Consumerism 2.0 will be built on mobility and trust. Eric Schmitt, the CEO of Google, said “mobile, mobile, mobile” as the next opportunity at the O’Reilly Web2Expo in San Francisco last month, where I was speaking on Mobile Web 2.0. I fully agrees that the mobile platform provides an opportunity that can advance faster and further than any other platform; such as the We...

Review by Tony Fish, 2008 Overall a good book, but this is a speed read.  For me personally well balanced and good issues raised.  Downside too US centric, too much about the law and too little about the complex inter-relationships. Overall the book left me with a number of questions the most important one being “at what point does reporting on (shamming) the norm breakers make it acceptable that more people will break the norm, seeing the shame as tolerable to gain the benefit.” The basic premises (which I agree with which is why I read it) is that the Internet model provides a broadcast, available and permanent record.  The ability to forget, forgive, ignore, wash away, remove or bury has gone.  Throughout the book I picked up five core themes             Change (why this is an important topic) Judgements (where and how is reputation created)         ...

Review by Tony Fish, 2008 The Future of the Internet – And How to Stop It by Jonathan Zittrain, cyberlaw Professor at Oxford is a difficult book to read and not for the faith hearted, on the same lines as ‘The wealth of Networks’ by Yochai Benkler. Personally, a very well written book and as with other books written by top rating academics, every sentence is well balanced and has a thought linked to it.  This is no speed read. However, overall the book left me rather numb, as it is a heavy read, and there is not one single impression you walk away with.  The best one liner summary I can give is “leave the internet alone and it will continue to develop faster than those trying to stop it.” Zittrain develops an argument to protect the “generativity” of the Internet but warns of its own powers and the anxieties of regulators to step in, believing they have seen it all before. The book has three parts. The first part is a historically...