(Or Why I think 3P-Based Infrastructure and Value-Add Channels are Sexy) Over the past decade, rapid advancements in mobile technology and mobility in general, have changed how we live and how we do business. It has changed us from an “on-demand” world to an “always connected” world. No doubt, mobile is here to stay and […]
Posts Categorized: Quality of Experience
Privacy and the Human in the Loop
When considering any system sometimes we forget that there’s a ‘Human in the Loop’. I’ve just finished reading a great white paper by Lori Cranor (A Framework for Reasoning About the Human in the Loop), and whilst this paper talks about security, it’s kissing cousin is Privacy. So a lot of the ideas presented here […]
Why the proposed Do Not Track standard is going to fail – it’s all about Trust
As the saying goes “A civilized society cannot function without trust”, ergo it’s also appropriate to extend that premise to the Internet – “A civilized Internet based society cannot function without trust”. So how do we define trust? There’s a great definition to be found on the Web – link – in short: “Trust is […]
A Contextual Approach to Online Privacy – It’s all about ME
In my last blog (Privacy By Design – The Secret Inside the Internet) I wrote about how the very design of the Web allows us to extend it to support a contextual approach to privacy online. In this post we’ll talk about how you can enable it. But first a little context (pun intended). The […]
The Value of “Me” (Part V of the series)
Well in the last post I promised that I would make the jump to a solution that increases the value of Internet, and gives me a choice in how and what I share on the Internet. So lets get straight to it. First a recap. the solution will have four key attributes that promote […]