My Digital FootPrint

I love my weekly email update from Nir Eyal and his post on Nir and Far - he writes on behaviour, habits and How to Build Habit-Forming Products.  He always brings up some interesting fact.   This week Nir was writing about the screen time problem, this is coupled with what Fred Wilson has been writing about on screen time trackers  made me think about my own FOMO with tracking. I used to have a fitbit, my phone and lots of devices to track me as I started on the ideas of quantified self  way back in 2008 - which feed into My Digital Footprint. I left "on" a wide range of trackers for location, heart, paces etc and tried to build a model.   Well I kind of got board and slowly the devices broke for a stack of reasons.  Rock Climbing and diving among the most obvious ones that some devices stopped functioning as well as they should.  Many have been upgraded and also gone to my overflowing man draw of one-day recycling...

Source:   http://www.visionmobile.com/ Turning openness into a competitive advantage - full PDF report here . “Open” can mean different things to different people. Standardization and interoperability (a form of openness) were among the key factors that allowed mobile telephony and SMS to scale and achieve ubiquitous cross-carrier capabilities. As long as telephony and SMS were tightly integrated with telecom networks, interoperability of services between telecom operators meant interoperability of networks. For example, for SMS and MMS to work across operator boundaries, networks of different operators must interoperate at the service layer. The transition to IP made services independent of networks and changed this fundamental assumption. IP has become a universal interoperability layer between transport networks, while interoperability at the service layer took on a totally new meaning. For example, Whatsapp could displace much of SMS and MMS traffic and achieve huge gl...

Worth reading http://blogs.forrester.com/eve_maler/12-03-12-a_new_venn_of_access_control_for_the_api_economy And the comments….

Worth reading http://blogs.forrester.com/eve_maler/12-03-12-a_new_venn_of_access_control_for_the_api_economy And the comments….

Worth reading http://blogs.forrester.com/eve_maler/12-03-12-a_new_venn_of_access_control_for_the_api_economy And the comments….

Worth reading http://blogs.forrester.com/eve_maler/12-03-12-a_new_venn_of_access_control_for_the_api_economy And the comments….

Worth reading http://blogs.forrester.com/eve_maler/12-03-12-a_new_venn_of_access_control_for_the_api_economy And the comments….

This was a project I worked on for SWIFT*, lead internally by Peter Van Auwera   along with the Identity Gang: Gary Thompson , Doc Searls , Kaliya Hamlin , Drummond Reed , Andreas Weigend , Craig Burton , Mary Hodder , Don Thibeau , Scott David , and Peter Hinssen . *SWIFT is the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications and is a global organization that each day handles financial transactions such as wire transfers for more than 9,000 banks, is preparing an expansion into data banking – helping to secure all types of digital exchanges. The question: Can SWIFT succeed in doing what Microsoft and other tech titans famously failed to achieve and build something that is useful in the identity space? Microsoft tried to introduce something similar 10 years ago with its Passport and Hailstorm initiatives; Intel, Sun, Oracle and AOL attempted to develop such a service through a group called The Liberty Alliance Background: Data is becoming a new type of raw mater...

Way back on 20 September I chaired the Digital Identity - Deep Dive @ Sibos The session explored the edges of the digital identity eco-system, looking into personal data stores, trust frameworks, and multi-channel authentication techniques. Azeem Azhar , CEO, Peerindex Craig Burton , Founder and Principal, Burtonian Scott David , Partner, K&L Gates LLP Tony Fish , Founder/CEO, AMF Ventures Mary Hodder , Chair, Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium Michael Ouliel , Founder and CEO, Ripples HLS Group Drummond Reed , Chairman and Chief Trust Officer, Connect.Me; Co-Chair, OASIS XRI and XDI Technical Committees, Connect.Me Doc Searls , Alumnus fellow Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University Gary Thompson , Co-founder and CEO, CLOUD Inc. Kevin Sharp , SVP Sales EMEA, Daon Here are a few pithy notes Kevin Sharp fear from security holds us back how do we discover identity transactions and authenticati...

“It’s been amazing to see all the ways that companies are leveraging the API. From hotels instantly upgrading rooms at check-in to call centers routing calls appropriately and thousands of companies using integration partners like Radian 6, Seesmic, Hootsuite, CoTweet, about.me and others to provide heightened levels of customer service to key influencers. Klout has become a must have for any company dealing with support, customer loyalty, and directed offers. It makes us proud to know that with every API call an influencer is being rewarded. We can’t wait to see what innovation the next 2 billion API calls bring!” http://corp.klout.com/blog/2011/07/two-billion-is-cool/

Full document here  http://www.w3.org/2011/tracking-protection/charter-draft Scope The Working Group will produce Recommendation-track specifications for a simple machine-readable preference expression mechanism ("Do Not Track") and technologies for selectively allowing or blocking tracking elements. Proposed candidate technologies for this preference that the Working Group will consider include, but are not limited to, the use of an HTTP header to signal the preference and a site's response, and the use of a ECMAScript API or DOM property for the same purpose. Additionally, the Working Group will define the scope of that user preference and practices for compliance with it in a way that will inform and be informed by the technical specification. The group will actively engage governmental, industry, academic and advocacy organizations to seek global consensus definitions and codes of conduct. The Working Group may investigate monitoring of implementation and confor...

6th June 2011. By advertising to Facebook fans instead of non-fans, advertisers can reduce the acquisition cost of registrations by 44%, event signups by 33%, and purchases by 15%. These results of a 4.1 billion ad-impression, thirteen-client test have been exclusively shared with Inside Facebook by TBG Digital, developers of one of the most popular technology solutions for buying huge volumes of Facebook ads . It is worth a read if the entire article …. http://www.insidefacebook.com/2011/06/06/target-facebook-fans-cheaper-registrations/

By Julian Clover Published: September 9, 2010 15.15 Europe/London   http://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2010/09/09/social-networking-displaces-the-red-button/ Comment :  This is an important observation as TV does not know anything about its viewers in real time.   IBC 2010 – AMSTERDAM. Social Networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter are beginning to take over from the Red Button as a means for broadcasters to interact with their audiences. In the session Social media: Look who’s talking now , Trevor Johnson, head of strategy & planning, EMEA, Facebook, UK showed how ITV was using Facebook as part of The X Factor . According to Johnson, the 1.5 million Facebook fans were using the social networking site at the same time as watching the talent contest and returning to it later in the week. Broadcasters including CNN, Sky News and TF1 were using the Facebook’s Live stream for real time interaction through their own websites. “We very much ...

  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...

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...

Usual message privacy is dead and be worried, however in the last 5 seconds it does say there is could be value in sharing your digital data… but does not say how. oh hum