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 | |
| GnuPG "encrypt and sign your data and communication" | |
| 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" | |
| Tails "a live system that aims to preserve your privacy and anonymity. It helps you to use the Internet anonymously and circumvent censorship almost anywhere you go and on any computer but leaving no trace unless you ask it to explicitly." | |
| Tor and the Tor Browser Bundle "prevents somebody watching your Internet connection" | |
| 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 | |
| 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" | |
| Casius † "Matching home owners with pre-screened & qualified local contractors" | |
| 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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