Dean Landsman — Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium

Killing Conspiracy: WikiLeaks and GRAMA

24 March 2011 by Dean Landsman

Over the last decade, I’ve lived my life more publicly than I did before thanks to the rise of technologies like blogging and Twitter. Many of my friends don’t understand the level of information I’m willing to just put out for the world to see or wha…

Filed Under: News Tagged With: grama, hb477, utah, politics, transparency,

Mining the new Gold

9 March 2011 by Dean Landsman

The Wall Street Journal has been running a fantastic set of articles called What They Know. Today’s (15th in their series) is called TV’s Next Wave: Tuning In to You. This article states that:
Data-gathering firms and technology companies are aggre…

Filed Under: News Tagged With: advertising, Business, Business ethics, Cablevision Systems Corporation, Communication, Cookie, Corporate behaviour, Corporate governance, history, HTTP cookie, insurance, marketing, non-negotiated, non-volunteered info, Psychology, records, Slippery slope, surveillance, Technology, Technology/Internet, Television advertisement, The Wall Street Journal, tools, Vendor Relationship Management (VRM), volunteered personal information, VRM

Building a PubSubHubBub Endpoint for Kynetx

25 February 2011 by Dean Landsman

The Live Web already exists and is exemplified by emerging technologies and concepts such as PubSubHubBub and webhooks. PubSubHubBub (PuSH) is a method for augmenting RSS and Atom feeds that turns the formerly request-response-style interaction of …

Filed Under: News Tagged With: kynetx, krl, pubsubhubbub, webhooks,

Conversational Commerce Update: End-user Advocates Set FTC Straight on Personal Data Ecosystem

22 February 2011 by Dean Landsman

In a tour de force of clear writing and exposition (albeit in 33 typed pages), Kaliya Hamlin and Mary Hodder, executive director and chairman, respectively, of the Personal Data Ecosystem Collaborative Consortium (PDECC) have provided the U.S. Federal …

Filed Under: News Tagged With: CAT Scans, conversational commerce, Personal Data Ecosystem, Project VRM