Re: [projectvrm] All My Purchases App

[Iain Henderson < >]

Yes, and let's not forget the offline world. A colleague of mine covered 
digitising receipts in her MSc thesis and came up with fascinating numbers, 
like the miles of paper that supermarkets churn out each week that go 
straight in the bin. Much of this is just a legacy way of doing things crying 
out for a standardised fix.

Count me in for this project work if we get it going.

Iain

On 27 May 2011, at 00:58, Doc Searls 
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> On May 26, 2011, at 5:32 PM, Brian Behlendorf wrote:
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>> Why not a standard for emailed purchase receipts?
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> Great idea!
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> Could it be there's already one we don't know?
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>> 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
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> Yay! Let's do it.
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> Doc
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