research

things I read yesterday … 06/16/2008

  • Simplicity Rules » Laws of Simplicity

    tags: simplicity, laws of simplicity

  • Laws of Simplicity

    tags: laws of simplicity

  • Macro Linz » The Fantastic Future of FriendFeed

    tags: freindfeed, attention

    • FriendFeed’s founders have most likely learned yet another lesson from their old employer. Google has set itself up to be the gateway for the bulk of the world’s digital information. There’s a lot of power in that. FriendFeed is setting itself up to be the gateway for our attention. We’ll become extremely reliant on it to do the grunt-work of filtering and alerting us to what’s important to us. It will become a service we can’t live without.

  • Why Tiny FriendFeed Will Be as Big as Google – Advertising Age – Steve Rubel

    “I believe that FriendFeed has the potential to become as big as Google” | Steve Rubel

    tags: friendfeed, google, megatrends

    • My latest fascination is FriendFeed, a site that in one place aggregates your friends’ streams from across different social sites. Right now FriendFeed’s audience is paltry. According to Compete, it has 300,000 active users. Still, I believe that FriendFeed has the potential to become as big as Google.
      Others who are vying for the same crown include SocialThing, Facebook and Google itself.
    • As an early FriendFeed enthusiast, I find myself increasingly turning to its terrific search engine when I need product and service information. You can give this a try yourself at friendfeed.com/search/advanced.

  • Bank of America Hits Two Milestones: One Million Mobile and 25 Million Online Users (NetBanker)

    tags: netbanker, BofA

    • Even more interesting to me was the news that the bank has “nearly 25 million” online banking users. That’s 3 million more than the bank had last fall, an impressive 13% gain. Six years ago, there weren’t even 20 million online banking households in the entire country (see note 1).

  • RBC Signature No Limit Banking Account: You Could Get a FREE Eee PC – RBC Royal Bank

    “Open and RBC Signature No Limit Banking account, and you could get a free Eee PC”

    tags: rbc, Asus eee

    • If you’re looking to surf the net at a coffee shop, upload your latest vacation photos or just to stay in touch with your friends and family, a whole new mobile experience is now at your fingertips.

      • Compact design, screen size 7″, only 0.92 kg
      • Wireless connectivity
      • Over 40 built-in applications

  • Main Page – Project VRM

    About VRM

    VRM, or Vendor Relationship Management, is the reciprocal of CRM or Customer Relationship Management. It provides customers with tools for engaging with vendors in ways that work for both parties.

    tags: no_tag

    • About VRM

      VRM, or Vendor Relationship Management, is the reciprocal of CRM or Customer Relationship Management. It provides customers with tools for engaging with vendors in ways that work for both parties.

  • joeandrieu.com » Blog Archive » Answers to a few questions about VRM

    tags: joeandrieu.com, VRM

    • What’s needed for VRM to work ?

      We need to work through electronic marketplace issues from customers’ perspectives, with attention to the full power of relationships, finding consistent ways to create new value through the network. For the Standards Committee, that means a public conversation starting with users and requirements. Once that is vetted in an open source manner, we can explore particular implementations. We believe that with a well defined, high quality requirements specification, service providers will emerge to deliver those services.