VRM Development Work
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Here is a partial list of VRM development efforts. (See About VRM). Some are organizations, some are commercial entities, some are standing open source code development efforts.
| SOFTWARE and SERVICES | |
| Intentcasting | |
| AskForIt † - individual demand aggregation and advocacy | |
| BePleez † - Intentcasting | |
| Body Shop Bids † - intentcasting for auto body work bids based on uploaded photos | |
| GetHuman † "Need to contact a company? Or have them call you? Get customer service faster and easier." | |
| Have to Have † - "A single destination to store and share everything you want online" | |
| Intently † - Intentcasting "shouts" for services | |
| Nifti † - Intentcasting "puts" in the market at customer (or community-) -chosen prices | |
| OffersByMe † - intentcasting for local offers | |
| Pikaba † "Pikaba is Social Shopping Platform that captures consumer intent to purchase and connects them with the right local business." | |
| PricePatrol † "monitors nearby stores for what you want at the price you want" | |
| Prizzm †- Was a social CRM platform rewarding customers for telling businesses what they want, what they like, and what they have problems with. Now "demand based advertising." | |
| RedBeacon † - intentcasting locally for home services | |
| Thumbtack † - service for finding trustworthy local service providers | |
| Trovi intentcasting; matching searchers and vendors in Portland, OR and Chandler, AZ† | |
| Uber † Ride=ordering | |
| Übokia † intentcasting from photos of desired things | |
| WebOfNeeds - "A distributed marketplace driven by customer needs." | |
| Zaarly † intentcasting to community - local so far in SF and NYC | |
| Privacy protection | |
| Abine † Do Not Track Me, DeleteMe, MaskMe PrivacyWatch: privacy-protecting browser extensions and services | |
| AdBlock Plus Ad and tracking blocking. | |
| Emmett † "An easy to install browser plugin that protects your privacy online" | |
| Collusion Firefox add-on for viewing third parties tracking your movements | |
| Disconnect.me † browser extentions to stop unwanted tracking, control data sharing | |
| Ghostery † browser extension for tracking and controlling the trackers | |
| Privacyfix † "One dashboard for your Facebook®, LinkedIn®, and Google® privacy. Blocks over 1200 trackers." | |
| PrivacyScore † browser extensions and services to users and site builders for keeping track of trackers | |
| Privowny † - "Your personal data coach. Protect your identity/privacy. Track what the Internet knows about you." | |
| Wickr † "an iPhone encryption app any 3-year-old can use" and "secure communications that Leave No Trace" | |
| Databases | |
| InfoGrid - graph database for personal networking applications | |
| ProjectDanube - open source software for identity and personal data services | |
| Messaging | |
| Confide † - "Messages disappear after they're read, ensuring all of your communication remains private, confidential and always off the record." | |
| Gliph †- private, secure identity management and messaging for smartphones | |
| Directly † - customer service Q&A site connecting to people who have worked in big companies and are willing to help when the company can’t or won't | |
| PingUp (was Getabl) †- chat utility for customers to engage with merchants the instant customers are looking for something | |
| TrustFabric † - service for managing relationships with sellers | |
| Personal Data and Relationship Management | |
| Azigo.com † - personal data, personal agent | |
| Camilstore Personal storage system. "Note that it's a 'storage system', not just a 'file system'." | |
| ComplainApp † - An iOS/Android app to "submit complaints to businesses instantly - and find people with similar complaints" | |
| Connect.Me † - peer-to-peer reputation, personal agent @respectconnect | |
| CozyCloud † - personal cloud storage, service | |
| DataBanker - lets individual consumers aggregate and understand their personal behavioral data, and sell that data to product designers, marketers, and social researchers | |
| Geddup.com † - personal data and relationship management | |
| Higgins - open source, personal data | |
| LastPass † - a secure password vault and service | |
| The Locker Project - open source, personal data | |
| MyDigipass † Secure login. "The ultimate password app" | |
| Mydex †- personal data stores and other services | |
| MySocialCloud † - personal password management Acquired by Reputation.com on 23 July 2013 | |
| OneCub †- Le compte unique pour vos inscriptions en ligne (single account for online registration) | |
| Paoga † - personal data, personal agent | |
| percloud - "A free software, portable, personal alternative to centralized email, social networking and other Web services." | |
| Personal.com † - personal data storage, personal agent | |
| Personal Clouds - personal cloud wiki; has logo program for companies and products that meet the personal cloud principles | |
| Pribook † a personal cloud network for "personal identity, vendor relationship management and personal network of things" | |
| Privowny † - privacy company for protecting personal identities and for tracking use and abuse of those identities, building relationships | |
| QIY † - independent infrastructure for managing personal data and relationships | |
| The Trusted Cloud Company † Personal clouds. (In private beta, February 2014.) | |
| Trov † "a private online digital locker for all the information about every thing you own" | |
| Transaction Management | |
| Dashlane † - simplified login and checkout | |
| Trust-Based or -Providing Systems and Services | |
| id3 - trust frameworks. Includes openPDS and Open Mustard Seed. | |
| Respect Network † - VRM personal cloud network based on OAuth, XDI, KRL, unhosted, and other open standards, open source, and open data initiatives. Respect Network is the parent of Connect.Me. @respectnet @respectconnect @drummondreed | |
| Trust.cc Personal social graph based fraud prevention, affiliated with Social Islands | |
| TrustCloud | |
| SERVICE PROVIDERS OR PROJECTS BUILT ON VRM PRINCIPLES | |
| belmewel-register.nl — the "Dutch YouMayCallMe registry" † "reverses the customer paradigm" | |
| Cloudstore † personal clouds | |
| Datacoup † a marketplace that translates personal data into a form of currency used for exchange on goods, offers or both | |
| dotui.com † intelligent media solutions for retail and hospitality customers | |
| Flamingo † Service company working toward leveling the playing field between service providers and customers | |
| easyDNS † Customer driven managed DNS hosting, domain tools and registration with no lock-in | |
| Edentiti Customer driven verification of identity | |
| First Retail Inc. † commodity infrastructure for bi-directional marketplaces to enable the Personal RFP | |
| Get Satisfaction † Forum software for customer feedback | |
| Real Estate Cafe † money-saving services for DIY homebuyers & FSBOs | |
| Hover.com Customer-driven domain management† | |
| Hypothes.is - open source, peer review | |
| mediagoblin - " a free software media publishing platform that anyone can run. You can think of it as a decentralized alternative to Flickr, YouTube, SoundCloud, etc." | |
| Meeco † "...an easy way to manage your digital life and control your information, so you can decide who you want to share it with and be rewarded for being you! | |
| MyWave † "MyWave CMR puts the customer in charge of their data and the experience." | |
| Neustar "Cooperation through trusted connections" † | |
| NewGov.us - GRM, Government Relationship Management | |
| OwnYourInfo Personal information storing and sharing application † | |
| Reputation.com † - Service for controlling one's reputation online | |
| Spotflux † malware, tracking, unwanted ad filtration through an encrypted tunnel | |
| SwitchBook † - personal search | |
| Tangled Web † - mobile, P2P & PDS | |
| The Banyan Project- community news co-ops owned by reader/members | |
| TiddlyWiki - a reusable non-linear personal Web notebook | |
| Ting † - customer-driven mobile virtual network operator (MVNO - a cell phone company) | |
| Tucows † Parent of Ting and Hover | |
| VirtualZero - Open food platform, supply chain transparency | |
| WeMakeItSafer † - "Items I Own sends alerts when it's important to YOU" | |
| Vū † User-driven personalized content delivery | |
| INFRASTRUCTURE | |
| Concepts | |
| EmanciPay - dev project for customer-driven payment choices | |
| GRM: Government Relationship Management - subcategory of VRM | |
| ListenLog - personal data logging | |
| Personal RFP - crowdsourcing, standards | |
| R-button - UI elements for relationship members | |
| Hardware | |
| Freedom Box - personal server on free software and hardware | |
| Indie Box - run open-source web applications on personal server in your home | |
| Precipitat, WebBox - new architecture for decentralizing the Web, little server | |
| Scanadu † - A scanner packed with sensors designed to read your vital signs and send them wirelessly to your smartphone | |
| Standards, Frameworks, Code bases and Protocols | |
| arkOS A personal cloud operating system. | |
| CloudOS An operating system for personal clouds and PICOs (persistent compute objects). | |
| CliqueSpace A system that models user and device interactions. See this SSRN paper. | |
| Datownia † - builds APIs from Excel spreadsheets held in Dropbox | |
| Etherium - "a platform and a programming language that makes it possible for any developer to build and publish next-generation distributed applications." | |
| FinTP - "the first open source application for financial transactions" | |
| Digital Asset Grid S prototype for secure and accountable Intentcasting infrastructure, funded by SWIFT Innotribe. | |
| Evented APIs - new standard for live web interactivity | |
| KRL (Kinetic Rules Language) - personal event networks, personal rulesets, programming Live Web interactions @windley | |
| Kynetx † - personal clouds, personal rule languages, etc. See @windley and this Github collection. | |
| Oneswarm - privacy protecting peer-to-peer data sharing | |
| http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/persona/ Mozilla Persona] - a privacy-protecting one-click email-based way to do single sign on at websites | |
| Owncloud "provides universal access to your files via the web, your computer or your mobile devices — wherever you are." | |
| percloud "personal cloud free software." Currently in fund raising. Explained here. | |
| Tahrir — "aims to be a distributed, decentralized, scalable, and anonymous "workalike" for services like Twitter, Google Plus, and Facebook" | |
| TAS3.eu — Trusted Architecture for Securely Shared Services - R&D toward a trusted architecture and set of adaptive security services for individuals | |
| Telehash - standards, personal data protocols | |
| Tent - open decentralized protocol for personal autonomy and social networking | |
| The Mine! Project - personal data, personal agent | |
| UMA - standards | |
| webfinger - personal Web discovery, finger over HTTP | |
| XDI - OASIS semantic data interchange standard | |
| PEOPLE | |
| Analysts and Consultants | |
| Ctrl-SHIFT † - analysts | |
| Synergetics † - VRM for job markets | |
| VRM Labs - Research | |
| HealthURL - Medical | |
| CONSORTIA, ORGANIZATIONS, WORKGROUPS | |
| Fing.org - VRM fostering organization | |
| Information Sharing Workgroup at Kantara - legal agreements, trust frameworks | |
| Midata Innovation Lab "Working to give consumers better access to the personal data that companies hold about them. @ Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS)." | |
| Midata "Providing better information and protection for consumers. Organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills" | |
| Patient Privacy Rights - Patient privacy advocacy organization | |
| Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium (PDEC) - industry collaborative | |
| MEETUPS, CONFERENCES AND EVENTS | |
| IIW: Internet Identity Workshop - yearly unconference in Mountain View | |
| VRM Hub - meeting in London
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