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Re: [projectvrm] Fwd: Introducing Singly Health Data Fabric


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  • From: Peter Cranstone < >
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  • Subject: Re: [projectvrm] Fwd: Introducing Singly Health Data Fabric
  • Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:36:26 +0000
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Katherine,

Great stuff! 

The more I dig into Intent Casting the more complex it's becoming. The amount of data flowing around is enormous, let alone all the messaging (now I see why T.Rob is advocating a very lightweight notification/message scheme). Plus on top of this you have to write yet even more apps to access all this data. 

Wow – to me this is going to blow the consumers mind. Supporting all these apps, which invariably are free, is going to be really hard for the developers because they now have to pay for the API access that their customers are using. Guess we're going to see even more advertising.

The VRM dependencies are now becoming very clear:
  1. Sufficient funding for VRM networks to support and maintain APIs that allow access to social networks, personal clouds and other databases
  2. A developer network that can monetize the above with the customer paying for it

That's a tall ask. In fact just looking at companies in the VRM space (Thumbtack, and Singly, there's another one which is a reputation play) you can see that double digit millions are required to just host the backend infrastructure to tie this all together. Thumbtack does an awesome job on mobile so you can just use a browser. However Singly is all about apps which is a different deal altogether. 

Developers won't pay for APIs unless they can monetize their apps. As they have to support a minimum of two mobile platforms (Android and iPhone) that means they have to either give away the app for free and throw in advertising (there goes your data) OR have a 'subscription' service that they can monetize. 

Here's a question for you (and anybody else who can answer it). Here's Google's network effect which generates a ton of money. What does the VRM network effect look like? Anybody like to take a stab a diagramming it?







Hmm.  Started out as this:  http://lockerproject.org/ 

“A Locker is a container for personal data, which gives the owner the ability to control how it's protected and shared. It retrieves and consolidates data from multiple sources, to create a single collection of the things you see and do online: the photos you take, the places you visit, the links you share, contact details for the people you communicate with, and much more. It also provides flexible APIs for developers to build rich applications with access to all of this information.”

 

But that last sentence, implying rich applications will access info and go in unforeseen directions with it,  seems to have morphed into this:  http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/10/singly-launches-app-fabric-platform-for-developers-to-speed-up-integrations-with-dozens-of-services/

 

“Singly offers to speed up the process of manually having to write code to authenticate users via third-party services, pull in their friends list and other data (think photos, bios, etc.) from various social networks and other services, and then allow those users to share to social networks, as well.”

 

Maybe that’s because the hitch is how to give consumers total control and developers the freedom to build rich applications.

 

Consumers may be willing to give developers that freedom IF they get to decide who sees the “rich application”  or know it is only published if they see it and “opt in”. 

 

K-

 

 

 

 

From: Doc Searls [ ">mailto: ]
Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2013 5:15 PM
To: ProjectVRM list
Subject: [projectvrm] Fwd: Introducing Singly Health Data Fabric

 

FYI. thoughts? hacks?

 

Doc

 

Begin forwarded message:



Subject: Introducing Singly Health Data Fabric

Date: July 3, 2013 1:38:47 PM EDT

 

We’ve launched a new product, and we are thrilled to share it with you!

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After syncing more than one million profiles and five billion objects, we've launched an exciting new product.  Health Data Fabric is a better way to manage connections to health and fitness services from FitBit to BodyMedia to Runkeeper and more. It's available today for private early access. Here are some key improvements from our previous technology:

  • Initial data sync times are drastically reduced
  • All data is pushed directly to your servers
  • Syncing reliability is vastly improved
  • A new dashboard showing the current status of syncing, any auth errors, etc.

 

 

Core to Singly's vision of data portability on the web is our authentication/login product, which provides access to 30+ services and will continue to be supported and improved.

Need non-health data like photos, videos, contacts and more? Stay tuned for announcements.

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