CRM is 30 and Salespersons still hate it.
… and 30 years later people still have no app to manage those corporations.
Eg - try moving house and work out how many people and organizations you need to inform … through a collection of random forms and calls.
Facebook is trying to make the word “private” meaningless.
“But what his presentation elided was the fact that Facebook does not need to see the content of what people are saying in order to advertise to them. The metadata — who, or what (as in a business), you’re talking to, and even where you are or what time the conversation is taking place as it comes together with other pieces of information — provides more than enough information to make a very educated guess about what you’re interested in, to the point that knowing specifically what you are saying adds almost nothing.”
Paraphrasing someone - Doc Searls I think.
”To suggest that by adding up the total set of known and unknown data about an individual provides an understanding of that person is akin to suggesting that by adding up the components that make up a car means you understand the car.
A selection of questions about data that run across two pages in one of my notebooks.
Does the sum of my data describe me?
If it doesn’t why do businesses think it does?
Is ‘my data’ really mine .. do I own it?
When did I give permission for my data to be used by others?
Thoughts
News is a commodity because it is ‘just’ data.
E.g. News: ‘The DOW fell by x’
**Charge for **
- When last
- When next
- How to
- What it means to who
- Why
Information, knowledge, insights, wisdom - that surround news can be charged for and will be bought if any good.
UK NHS to provide health advice through Amazon Alexa.
What could possibly go wrong?
”Google went from wanting to give you access to the whole world to wanting to be your whole world."
Dave Pell
Reminds me a little of ….
How the Super Rich Avoid Paying Taxes
“No reasonable person can defend a system under which workers laboring all year for the $7.25 federal minimum wage pay more than a dollar a day in income taxes while billionaire business owners pocket millions in profits tax-free.”
Before ‘government cheese’ was a punchline, it was an experimental economic plan.
Explains why when ever you order anything to eat in America, and you don’t want cheese with it … be sure to say ‘no cheese’, because otherwise whatever you just ordered will come with cheese.
The loss of elderhood - Julian Summerhayes
”We’ve more old people than ever before, but so few elders.”
Saved - and will be coming back to @juliansummerhayes … key point in People First.
Fed chief calls for Facebook to halt Libra project until concerns addressed.
”Everything Facebook does should raise serious concerns”
Jim Dalrymple
Badda Bing Badda Boom
Apple pushes silent Mac update to remove hidden Zoom web server
Seriously?
Why does Chrime not do what Safari and Firefox does? How hard is it to standardize?
Have to say I do find the ‘reusable block’ function of Gutenberg very useful.
What would be the downside of supporting a professional representative that told the truth rather than cow towing to a … well … lying, depraved scumbag?
The 2020 event … get there early … in 2019 to be exact.
