Re: [projectvrm] All My Purchases App

[Brian Behlendorf < >]

Why not a standard for emailed purchase receipts?  For no good reason, 
today I get email messages confirming purchases in all sorts of different 
formats.  One could pretty easily imagine a standard that preserved the 
ability to view the message in an HTML-ish mail client, but which also 
embedded enough metadata (microformats-style, or as a small attachment a 
la VCF) to allow a message to be fed to a client-side application that did 
interesting things with the data - like helped me keep track of purchasing 
habits, a personal-property inventory system for insurance purposes, a 
warranty tracking system so that when X breaks I know quickly what number 
to call and if it's still in service, etc.  It could also thus feed a VRM 
system entirely client side, or on a personal cloud of one's choice, in a 
manner much more semantically meaningful than free text association.

Then, let a thousand All My Purchases apps bloom.

Brian