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T.Rob, Thank you for your kind words – all offers of marriage gratefully considered (but unfortunately my wife has final say!). More seriously
we will of course work with anyone who wants to further the progress of personal data. Answering your questions as follows: Q1:
You mention the ability to choose a cloud storage provider but do not mention that the data is encrypted. After the discussion of how we would not trust any one vendor with all that data, I assume that it is
encrypted locally before transmission to the cloud storage provider, yes? A1: Yes the data is encrypted. Q2: The video mentions Amazon, FitBit and others but the Pricing page lists only "social network accounts." Are the vendor
accounts free, counted as social media accounts, or are they not there yet? Have you considered collaborating (or merging) with FileThis who already fetch tons of utility bills and bank account statements? A2: As of today we have implemented only social media accounts (which have massive amounts of data I might add) – because they are the most evocative. As we progress through 2015 and into 2016 we will add the other accounts we mention.
For example we are working on getting step data and Transport for London data for a particular application we are working with a health provider in London on – over 2,000 people in London die each year because they do not walk enough! Q3: Is there an open API to develop our own apps against the data? One of the biggest issues with Internet of Things is
that proprietary devices interface only with whatever other devices the vendor thinks have a possibility of strong ROI for the development costs. As cool as Digi.me sounds, the idea of waiting endlessly for the company to clear off the high priority interfaces
and get to the niche integrations is a total turn-off. (For those who haven't realized it yet, the long tail *is* the tail. If your Internet biz doesn't scale to handle niche cases, it isn't an Internet biz, or if it is it won't be for long.) A3: You won’t be surprised to know that we are constrained by funding as to what we can do when. Clearly, distribution is key – no one will want to access data (with user Permission of course!) if there aren’t many
users. Cost of acquisition with a direct acquisition model gets expensive quickly, so we have a partnership model as our main user acquisition channel initially. Therefore in 2015 Permission Access is being worked on for our main partners only – those who
can strategically get us lots of users (Telcos, FMSCG, banks, insurers – all whilst following our strict Permission Access principles) and who can gives us some money as well. We expect to have an anyone can access your data API (again with Permission of
course) by mid 2016 at the latest. If anyone wants earlier access then just email me and we’ll see what we can do – we’re moving as fast as we can. Q4: Can I route my email receipts through Digi.me? For example my bank, department store, sporting goods store, and most online stores will send me an email receipt. These are almost all text so they can be dropped
as-is into a DB and become instantly searchable. A4:Not on the plan for 2015 nor 2016. Others may do this and move the data when we have the general purpose API available in 2016, but for now we are concentrating on direct access to data via APIs only. (I’d love
to buy one of the companies that does a lot of this already, but strategically it’s not the most important think we can do – I think.) Q5: Is the pricing structure scalable? At some point do you stop counting accounts and just go by bandwidth? Because I hit 20 social media accounts before I even start counting the vendor accounts and I probably
have way more than 20 of those. Thinking of the Long Tail again, I'm not worried that Digi.me will capture my Duke Power interactions, it's the appliance repair guy or the tree surgeon I used a couple of years ago that I *really* need help remembering.
If Digi.me believes per-account pricing is the way to go, there's a natural incentive to *not* load up data from occasional vendors, which would by design omit large swathes of useful info, thereby crippling the app to some extent. I'm the CEO of my
family and I want an enterprise license, dammit! A5: Taking the pricing answer from my email to JP: “The video doesn’t really explain our charging model, so as you mention the “The Free is the Lie” syndrome
I’ll address it. Today we DO charge for the basic software – at a low $7 a year for basic premium features; however, in time the software functionality of digi.me will be free. Our main revenue will be from postal charges – when you Permission Access to
some element(s) of your data and your digi.me app ”posts” that data to another app/web page/etc then a postal fee is charged by digi.me to the receiving entity. This postal fee will only be cents/tens of cents each time (or for a regular “subscription”) but
will add to $20 or so per user per year (roughly)and when you consider we don’t hold data, process it or have bandwidth then that makes us profitable without the need to take commission, sell your data or anything else. Our mission is to be dreadfully boring
– be your Librarian and Postman and nothing else”
So you won’t in the medium term pay per channel at all – only when you Permission Access to your data, and then you won’t pay, but the receiver will. Yes, we charge now, but that is because until our Permission Access
API is up and running we have to make some money – and we have partners who do get many customers for us by selling our software. For example FNAC in France sell our software as part of a security pack. I hope that gives you further detail and responds to your questions adequately, but do fire in my thoughts questions, comments. Cheers Jules ---------- Forwarded message ---------- I'm in love! Can I marry Digi.me? Seriously though, I do have a couple of questions from the video. ·
You mention the ability to choose a cloud storage provider but do not mention that the data is encrypted. After the discussion of how we would not trust any one vendor with all that data, I assume that it is
encrypted locally before transmission to the cloud storage provider, yes? ·
The video mentions Amazon, FitBit and others but the Pricing page lists only "social network accounts." Are the vendor accounts free, counted as social media accounts, or are they not there yet? Have you considered
collaborating (or merging) with FileThis who already fetch tons of utility bills and bank account statements? ·
Is there an open API to develop our own apps against the data? One of the biggest issues with Internet of Things is that proprietary devices interface only with whatever other devices the vendor thinks have a
possibility of strong ROI for the development costs. As cool as Digi.me sounds, the idea of waiting endlessly for the company to clear off the high priority interfaces and get to the niche integrations is a total turn-off. (For those who haven't realized
it yet, the long tail *is* the tail. If your Internet biz doesn't scale to handle niche cases, it isn't an Internet biz, or if it is it won't be for long.) ·
Can I route my email receipts through Digi.me? For example my bank, department store, sporting goods store, and most online stores will send me an email receipt. These are almost all text so they can be dropped
as-is into a DB and become instantly searchable. ·
Is the pricing structure scalable? At some point do you stop counting accounts and just go by bandwidth? Because I hit 20 social media accounts before I even start counting the vendor accounts and I probably
have way more than 20 of those. Thinking of the Long Tail again, I'm not worried that Digi.me will capture my Duke Power interactions, it's the appliance repair guy or the tree surgeon I used a couple of years ago that I *really* need help remembering.
If Digi.me believes per-account pricing is the way to go, there's a natural incentive to *not* load up data from occasional vendors, which would by design omit large swathes of useful info, thereby crippling the app to some extent. I'm the CEO of my
family and I want an enterprise license, dammit! J I'll go sign up later. Tonight I'm in charge of dinner and, as I posted earlier to Facebook, my soup has that "new crock pot smell." I
think I'll have to run to the store for something to grill real fast. Kind regards, -- T.Rob I have availability! For a good time (with IBM MQ) call: T.Robert Wyatt, Managing partner IoPT Consulting, LLC +1 704-443-TROB (8762) Voice/Text +44 (0) 8714 089 546 Voice From: Julian
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…. using a pack of cards? Time for me to tell you all what we’re really up to at
digi.me – please look at
http://digi.me/video We’re over 270K licences out there now, growing fast, and expect some major partnerships we have in final stages to take us beyond first million this year – moving. The personal
cloud and iOS mobile versions mentioned in the video all get released this month; the PC/Mac versions have been around for a long time and are now at a true V7. Permission Access will be open to select partners this year and to the world from mid-2016. Comments, questions, thoughts all very welcome. Cheers, Jules Julian Ranger Founder & Chairman,
digi.me (formerly SocialSafe) http://digi.me – It’s your life Mobile:
+44 7802 207470 @rangerj uk.linkedin.com/in/julianranger/ |
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