Market intelligence that flows both ways. It’s about the real Internet of Things. Not the Compuserve+Prodigy+AOL variety in development today. Unless we build on open source and standards, the IoT won’t be near as big as Business Insider says it will be.
What I’ll be doing this coming Wednesday.
Marketing in the age of VRM and customer engagement.
Liking “your favorite brand” might mean you can’t sue them.
Nice props from Darren Herman of Mozilla for VRM and The Intention Economy.
Many friends and colleagues made the latest Knight News Challenge cut.
A Dutch guy’s soul sells for 350 euros.
Which passwords to change for Heartbleed. Bonus link.
Crypticide I: Thirteen Years of Crack. “Because I want that password algorithm — the traditional, 8-character Unix password-hashing algorithm — “dead.”
U.S. No longer a democracy. From a Princeton and Northwestern study. Mostly reported, for brand-name reasons I suppose, as a “Princeton study.”
Birth and death of Javascript.
Past, present and future of music streaming.
Problems with bid data ethics.
What happens to the ebook market inside Amazon’s monopoly.
Designing conversations with algorithms. From the NYTimes Lab blog. Creeps me a little, but I like stuff like this: “The second principle here is agency, meaning that a system’s design should empower users to not only accomplish tasks, but should also convey a sense that they are in control of their participation with a system at any moment. And I want to be clear that agency is different from absolute and granular control.”