Archives for April 2011

Personal leverage for personal data

VRM is starting to snowball. You can see it in the Twitter scroll there on the right, and in Twitter searches for #VRM. Gaining velocity lately is personal data. To look down that vector, I’ll connect several links.
The first is Show Us the Data. (I…

An upside to data collection

Original article is at MarketPlace, Tuesday, April 26, 2011   Listen to this Story

University of Chicago economist Richard Thaler discusses why he believes businesses that (the) collect(ors of) our data should give it back to us so …

The Value of Browser Add Ons

Today a question about the size of the browser add-on market came up and more specifically, what kinds of things people used browser addons for. I spent a little time at AMO to try and find some answers–at least for Firefox.

First the AMO statist…

Tracking Do Not Track panel, Morris + King

April 26, 2011 – NYC Mary Hodder spoke on a panel with Brian Morrisey of Digiday, David Norris of Blue Cava, Dan Jaffe of the National Association of Advertisers and Helen Nissenbaum of NYU. More.