My Digital FootPrint

April 19 Arkkeo † Relaunched in 2018. Now, "links to your customers' payment cards and automatically rewards them for making frequent purchases." Formerly, "automatically stores and archives all the purchase receipts, warranty, insurance, healthcare and travel documents you receive from the businesses and service providers that you deal with." Camilstore Personal storage system. "Note that it's a 'storage system', not just a 'file system'." CozyCloud † - "a Personal Cloud you can host, customize and fully control" dappre † "Allow people and organisations to subscribe to you and share the data you want to share" Dashlane † - "The world's best password manager & secure digital wallet. Digitteria † - "...puts people at the heart of managing their data usage. Digitteria’s products allow people to protect and share their information with third parties on their own terms." Digi.me...

Here’s a presentation  from James Morgan , Telefonica UK’s head of information strategy for business intelligence. Telefonica new ‘vision’: “To be The Most Trusted Provider of Brilliant Digital Experiences”   My problem is that this is all about control aka the Apple model and not an open model – implicit is that they know better than you about what you want!

So Google's Reader has gone…. I have survived the end of the work and happily my own personal feeds are all still working. I am still using gReader pro now synced to Feedly, but I have lost a number of feeds in the process so I thought I would do an easy up. Options are for feeds to My Digital Footprint are Do nothing If still working, well done The RSS feed www.mydigitalfootprint.com/feeds/posts/default email subscription http://www.mydigitalfootprint.com/ if you click on subscribe you can enter an email – all will work again

Personal has signed a partnership with FileThis to automatically deliver bills and statements from the leading financial, insurance, utility, health and retail companies directly to Personal.

  I am a Fish which if judged by the academic system would believe I am stupid. If I were at school today I would rattle with pills, have my own personal counsellor and shrink, which is why I am a part of FeynLabs . Feynlabs is developing a set of unique techniques to accelerate the learning of programming, computer science and computational thinking among young people. If Girls don’t get excited about computing science by 12 they will probably be lost and we lack the teachers to get them on side.   We have just successfully completed our KickStarter with the Team and now have to start to deliver, all and any help welcome.    

Main page is here http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ajitjaokar/computer-science-for-your-child

http://www.deadsoci.al/ a network giving a virtual voice to the dearly departed enabling you to continue to be social after you die? Even after you die, your digital self (should/ can/ could) live on. “We create this digital footprint when we’re alive and it’s just a logical next step that some people will want to utilize something that makes it so that footprint doesn’t abruptly end,” says DeadSocial founder James Norris. “We spend so much time pruning our social profiles, it’s down to individuals to decide whether they want their accounts to die when they do.” What happens to our social profiles has become a point of contention. Some families have wrestled with networks to regain the deceased’s account, and others have been disturbingly active from the grave thanks to system errors. And anyone who knows someone deceased wonders what to do: Do you post on her Timeline? Do you send a DM to aid the grieving process? Or do you just stare at their page, frozen in time?

Interview  by  Julian Blake  for TechCity Insider All you need is trust from TechCityInsider on Vimeo .

ID Guard Stamp Obscures Private Information on Mail and Printed Documents http://www.containerstore.com/shop/giftWrapWonderland/stockingStuffers?productId=10028938&N=62523+1000040

Capography is a start-up finance resource for founders and aspiring entrepreneurs founded by @timraybould and @ticketleap. Being an entrepreneur and knowing how to do your startup’s capitalisation table require special skills and time. A cap table lists who owns what in a startup. With each investment round, the valuation of your company changes as more people are involved. You sometimes have to manage options and warrants for your employees as well. Maintaining a cap table is important to know what everyone gets paid in case of an exit. Capography has adopted a freemium model. You can maintain your cap table for free as long as there are fewer than 20 people on your cap table. When you have more stakeholders than that, you will have to pay $199 per year. It is based in Philadelphia and about 600 startups are using it to manage their cap table. Just love it - well done but can they draw anything from the data?

http://www.weknowwhatyouredoing.com/ Plain and simple shock treatment..... Callum Haywood http://callumhaywood.com/  

            Source: Respect Network Brings Together Neustar and Swisscom as Founding Partners Respect Network adds new evidence of the emergence of a new personal data ecosystem ….by announcing that it has formed a global network for the trusted exchange of personal data and has secured Neustar (NSR) and Swisscom (SCMN.VX) as founding partners.  The founder and entrepreneur Drummond Reed and others, has also started the peer-to-peer Connect.me service. Specifically, the Respect Network is the first network being built from the ground up to give people control of their personal data and the ability to realize that data’s value. Unlike centralized social networks, the Respect Network is a decentralized, multi-provider network much like today’s email or banking networks. Additional partners in the network include Kynetx, Gluu, The OpenXDI Project, Project Danube, The Customer’s Voice, Planetwork, and ...

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/joeandrieu/a-standard-information-sharing-label

In a nice burst of 21st Century enlightenment, Scottish Power have become the first organisation to release data under the UK.gov midata programme . From Scottish Power . Now bring on the rest...

Check out this kickstarter that looks to build out a standard label for information sharing scenario's.  

Source … TechCrunch : Disconnect: Ex-Googlers Raise Funding To Stop Google, Facebook & More From Tracking Your Data Google engineer Brian Kennish in October 2010, created Facebook Disconnect which I downloaded not long after, a Chrome extension that disables all traffic from third-party sites to Facebook servers but still allows you to access Facebook itself. The extension racked up 50K active users in two weeks prompting Kennish to leave his job at Google to focus full-time on helping the average web user take back control of their data. https://disconnect.me/ is now attracting over 400K weekly active users with a "Mission Statement": “Personal data should belong to people, not corporations.”  And taken on $600,000 from Highland Capital Partners with the participation of Charles River Ventures and angel investors; David Cancel, Mark Jacobstein, Ramesh Haridas, Vikas Taneja, Chris Hobbs, and Andy Toebben.

Source: http://www.unboundid.com/blog/2012/03/29/powering-the-identity-economy-now-with-series-b-funding/ Congratulation to UnboundID has received $12.5M in Series B funding fr om  OpenView Venture Partners . 

The goal of Spotflux technology is to bridge a connection from anywhere in the world, avoiding any blockages or deep packet inspection, and to prevent traffic shaping or content modification.  Spotflux technology works by encrypting and tunneling a connection between a user and Spotflux infrastructure. The magic sauce involved uses Spotflux proprietary technology that has been developed to avoid deep packet inspection and to avoid blockages based on IP or DNS entries. At the same time Spotflux can protect the privacy of their users by preventing unwanted tracking, and protecting our users from threats such as malware and viruses. Spotflux is live and serving over 100,000 customers around the globe in 120 countries. Spotflux has closed its first funding ($1m) led by New Atlantic Ventures and joined by a group of Angel investors including Paris based Kima Ventures and Steven R. Gerbsman. Founders Dean Mekkawy and Chris Naegelin are technology entrepreneurs who have spent...

The goal of Spotflux technology is to bridge a connection from anywhere in the world, avoiding any blockages or deep packet inspection, and to prevent traffic shaping or content modification.  Spotflux technology works by encrypting and tunneling a connection between a user and Spotflux infrastructure. The magic sauce involved uses Spotflux proprietary technology that has been developed to avoid deep packet inspection and to avoid blockages based on IP or DNS entries. At the same time Spotflux can protect the privacy of their users by preventing unwanted tracking, and protecting our users from threats such as malware and viruses. Spotflux is live and serving over 100,000 customers around the globe in 120 countries. Spotflux has closed its first funding ($1m) led by New Atlantic Ventures and joined by a group of Angel investors including Paris based Kima Ventures and Steven R. Gerbsman. Founders Dean Mekkawy and Chris Naegelin are technology entrepreneurs who have spent...

The goal of Spotflux technology is to bridge a connection from anywhere in the world, avoiding any blockages or deep packet inspection, and to prevent traffic shaping or content modification.  Spotflux technology works by encrypting and tunneling a connection between a user and Spotflux infrastructure. The magic sauce involved uses Spotflux proprietary technology that has been developed to avoid deep packet inspection and to avoid blockages based on IP or DNS entries. At the same time Spotflux can protect the privacy of their users by preventing unwanted tracking, and protecting our users from threats such as malware and viruses. Spotflux is live and serving over 100,000 customers around the globe in 120 countries. Spotflux has closed its first funding ($1m) led by New Atlantic Ventures and joined by a group of Angel investors including Paris based Kima Ventures and Steven R. Gerbsman. Founders Dean Mekkawy and Chris Naegelin are technology entrepreneurs who have spent...