Your actual wallet vs./+ Google’s and Apple’s
Now comes news that Apple has been granted a patent for the iWallet. Here’s one image among many at that last link: Note the use of the term “rules.” Keep that word in mind. It is a Good Word. Now look...
View ArticleLife Management Platforms
Kuppinger Cole, an analyst firm headquartered in Germany, has been hip to VRM for a long time. They gave ProjectVRM an award (that’s it there on the right) at the EIC (European Identity Conference) in...
View ArticleIIW XV
The XVth IIW is coming up on October 23-25 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, and VRM will be, as usual, a big topic — or collection of topics — there. IIW stands for Internet Identity...
View ArticleDriving VRM with car data and APIs
Go read OnStar gives Volt owners what they want: their data, in the cloud, by Sean Gallagher, in Ars Technica. It’s a VRM story. The vendor is Chevrolet, the vended product is the Volt, and the...
View ArticleToward a matrix of APIs
At the 2006 O’Reilly Emerging Technology conference, Cal Henderson, then of Flickr, gave a long session called “Launching and scaling new Web services.” As I recall, among the many things he explained...
View ArticleVRM development work
I’ll be having a brown bag lunch today with a group of developers, talking about VRM and personal clouds, among other stuff that’s sure to come up. To make that easier, I’ve copied and pasted the...
View ArticleThe VRM perspective
The VRM perspective is independence. This isn’t new. In fact, it’s as old as the Net. It is also nearly forgotten. Billions have never experienced it. When the Net first came into common use, in 1995,...
View ArticlePrepping for #VRM Day and #IIW
The 16th IIW (Internet Identity Workshop) is coming up, Tuesday to Thursday, 7-9 May, will be tat the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. As usual, VRM will be a main topic, with lots of...
View ArticleApple HealthKit and VRM
With iOS8, Apple is releasing a pile of new capabilities for developers, such as HomeKit, CarPlay, Family Sharing and HealthKit. These don’t just bring new stuff to your iPhone and iPad. Start digging...
View Article@BlockstackOrg, @IPFS, @OpenBazaar, @OneName, @Telehash, @Mine_Labs...
With IIW— the Internet Identity Workshop not far away (April 26-28), VRM Day kicking it off (April 25), and distributed and crypto-secured sovereign personal spaces (such as the personal contents of...
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