Re: [projectvrm] All My Purchases App

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On May 26, 2011, at 5:32 PM, Brian Behlendorf wrote:

> 
> Why not a standard for emailed purchase receipts?

Great idea!

Could it be there's already one we don't know?

>  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

Yay! Let's do it.

Doc