Archives for November 2011

PII 2011: Owning Online Identity: Consumer-Managed Data

Fatemeh Khatibloo, Forrester Research moderates panel with Jason Cavnar, Singly, Todd Cullen, Acxiom, Shane Green, Personal, and Mary Hodder, Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium.
Fatemeh: why do consumers care? Jason: consumers have a sense of …

Connect.Me: A True Test of Online Trust

When it happened the first time, it was so ironic that it was almost laughable.
The second time it is much more serious. In fact, it is turning into a true test of the online trust fabric that Connect.Me is all about. Read on for details. I’…

The Second PC Revolution: Personal Clouds

In 1976, I started at the University of Idaho. My advisor was Keith Prisbrey, a brand new Assistant Professor of Metallurgical Engineering. I count him as one of the great mentors of my life. Keith recognized something in me and took me…

Should an Actress be Suing IMDB Because She Doesn’t Want Her Age Posted?

(This post is cross-posted at Napsterization.org/stories, my personal blog on disruptive technologies.) Brad McCarty of The Next Web thinks the IMDb: Age-publishing lawsuit is “a frivolous abuse” and should be dropped. Reading his piece, I can see that on first glance, it sounds silly. An actress anonymously sues the Amazon-owned IMDB folks because they won’t […]