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Doug Richards on Mydex: “I think you’re onto something huge”

Mydex was invited to present to Doug Richards’ School for Startups at the Good Deals social-investment conference. The challenge: to outline what the “personal data store” is, why the world needs it, what Mydex does and why it is a social enterpr…

The price for free online service, down to the last decimal

I’ve been thinking lately that websites should display a pie chart showing what you’re really paying for “free” online services, just to show that it really does always add up to 100%. Something like this:

Now Drummond points us to the world

Finally, a truthful privacy policy

For anyone who’ been dealing with Internet privacy, Dan Tynan’s The First Truly Honest Privacy Policy is a scream.
(Don’t tell anyone, but it’s much closer to the real truth than anyone really wants to admit.)

Podcast Episode 5: Phil Windley

In this podcast, Kaliya talks to Phil Windley, CTO and co-founder of Kynetx, and co-foundeder and co-producer of the Internet Identity Workshop with Kaliya & Doc Searls. Phil gives his perspective on the key differentiator between today’s social networks and Personal Data Ecosystem and the emergence of the personal data store where individuals store and control their own […]