The Personal Cloud

The hallmark of a rapidly growing new space is new terminology. Craig Burton goes so far as to posit that the growth of the space will be constrained until it has a lexicon that successfully incorporates its key concepts.
All of which applies in spades…

The Personal Data Story

Yesterday MyDex launched its Community Prototype at IIW. Coverage —

Big long list of #mydex tweets
NewMediaAge: DMA and government departments trial data privacy platform
Civil Society: Consumers can control their data in new data store

The whole r…

Revision: “Personal Data Service” AND “Personal Data Store” Go Together

On the Project VRM telecon today, we had an excellent discussion regarding “PDS” terms and my blog post last Sunday (Out with “Personal Data Store”, In with “Personal Data Service”). Iain Henderson of Mydex made the point that the key advan…

The case for personal information empowerment – The rise of the personal data store

I am delighted that we have managed to bring Mydex forward onto the next stage in its journey and quest to bring the personal data store ecosystem alive. We published a white paper this week that I think will be a seminal work.  The journey is long bu…