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mlet is working closely with a wide range of device manufacturers, telecommunication carriers, and consumer data storage vendors to make Omlet as widely available as possible to redefine and evolve the Open Messaging marketplace. Social Sharing Reinvented Omlet Chat enables consumers to share anything (text, images, files, video, music), with anyone, from any device (IOS or Android). One of the key features of Omlet Chat is the ability for groups to find, connect, and collaborate with one

"The era where we were in control of the data on our own computers has been replaced with devices containing sensors we cannot control, storing data we cannot access, in operating systems we cannot monitor, in environments where our rights are rendered meaningless. Soon the default will shift from us interacting directly with our devices to interacting with devices we have no control over and no knowledge that we are generating data. Below we outline 10 ways in which this exploitation and manipulation is already happening."

Le gourou Bruce Schneier s'inquiète du fait que la sécurité est assurée par des oligopoles (les "géants" de l'internet qui contrôlent maintenant aussi le hardware) qui ne sont soumis à aucune règle. Il parle ainsi d'un retour au système féodal. "Today's internet feudalism, however, is ad hoc and one-sided. We give companies our data and trust them with our security, but we receive very few assurances of protection in return, and those companies have very few restrictions on what they can do. This needs to change. There should be limitations on what cloud vendors can do with our data; rights, like the requirement that they delete our data when we want them to; and liabilities when vendors mishandle our data."

"As these 3 key trends converge we're going to see a blurring of the lines between online and offline retail, with consumers having a more tailored and personalised in-store experience and with retailers gaining a better understanding of (and ability to influence) the end to end purchase process for each individual customer. Loyalty programmes play a key and central role in all of this as a means of proactively gathering consumer data in an opted-in manner and allowing appropriate reward and recognition to be given back. This will result in "you and yours" - your data, your behaviours, your friends, your experiences - being a central theme for 2012. I probably say this every year, but 2012 is going to be an exciting time in loyalty marketing!"

Un nouvel exemple de l'exploitation des données à l'insu (mais la candeur du PDG de Withings est évocatrice ici) des usagers. Et les dégâts que cela peut causer.

Un gars qui pense qu'on devrait vendre nos données. Un de plus. J'ai laissé le commentaire suivant: What says that people can't have control on their data? We never actually tried. In the US, UK and France, there are right now nationwide programs which evaluate the possibility of a world where people have control on their data. The idea is not to mount a wall between companies and their customers, but rather to empower people with their data and allow big companies and start-up alike to create new services from people's data. The concept behind this line of thinking is called Vendor Relationship Management (VRM). Not only marketing data is quickly obsolete (as you said, it's constantly flowing), but the data is siloed (which is why Google spends lots of money buying databases) and a lot of guesswork is put into the design of new services. What if people had all their data (health, insurance, banking, telecomunications, ID…) in a personal data store and allowed companies to connect to it, on a one-app-at-a-time basis? Heaps of new ideas could emerge and new players would have the possibility to create apps tailored just for you without having to guess or spend money in shady databases. It raises several questions: what about security? Can people really manage their data? An organisation called La Fing is experimenting the idea in France to get some answers. The project is called MesInfos, And big companies are tagging along (Banking institutions, Telcoms, Insurance companies , and even Google). But what's clear right now, is that the situation - with big companies hoarding our personal data without giving much control back on it - is not a fatality. And there are certainly better answers than "Protect all your data" or "Put a price on it".

Jawbone wants users to do more with their activity data and it plans to collect even more of it in the future. The company is making two moves today to accomplish those goals: it's allowing Up fitness band data to be shared with other activity-tracking apps via a new API, and it has acquired competitor BodyMedia.

ebook (and other internet operators) is because that's where the data is-Facebook has already collected it, parsed it, and stored it. The NSA goes to Facebook for the same reason that Willie Sutton went to banks. While it awaits a reply from the government, Facebook could immediately launch its own effort to give "transparency reports" to its members. It could provide each of its users with access to a simple, personalized data log that shows what particular pieces of information i

Les grandes organisations semblent encore avoir des difficultés avec les acteurs tiers, qui proposent des services à leurs clients, en lien avec les données personnelles qu'elles détiennent. C'est ce que montre cet article basé sur quelques exemples criants, dans lesquels les organisations mettent à mal ces start-up, mais n'arrivant pas dans le même temps à proposer des services "consumer friendly" à leurs clients...

Much has changed since Google earned a reputation for fattening its staffers with food on demand. These days, the company is focused on advancing its healthy eating initiatives. Explains Jennifer Kurkoski, who has a PhD in organizational behavior and runs a division of Google's HR department called People Analytics, "When employees are healthy, they're happy. When they're happy, they're innovative."

Tangled développe des applications et services, qui permettre de regagner du pouvoir autour de nos données personnelles. En résumé : une technologie permettant de créer un entrepôt de données personnelles sur son portable, et qui permet de partager de l'information. Les principes : "Our commitment is that YOU: - Value your information - Own your information - Interact directly with strong-ties - Define privacy on your terms"

Si les jeux sérieux sont de plus en plus populaire, leur problème est de générer de nouveaux scénarios réalistes. Des chercheurs tentent de résoudre ce problème en générant des scénarios réalistes via des questions posées à des utilisateurs du Turk Mécanique d'Amazon.

Quelques réflexions sur les avancées modestes du vrm et leur pourquoi, par un des acteurs du mouvement, plutôt critiques pour une fois.

Posted on November 28th, 2011 by Sacha Chua I like reading about other people's adventures in self-tracking and experimentation. It's a great way to pick up ideas and connect with other people. There's Quantified Self, but it has a handful of authors.