Personal data is the future

Personal data is the future, but does anybody care?

This the title Tara Hunt (alias @missrogue) gave to a recent blog post. She provides very insightful advices about what might be the 3 key success factors of Personal Data Services.

  • Utility
  • Serendipity
  • Self-expression

Seth Godin just posted a fourth point, the Agenda. He made it short enough to be fully pasted hereunder.

The job of the CEO isn’t to check things off the agenda. Her job is to set the agenda, to figure out what’s next.

Now that more and more of us are supposed to be CEO of our own lives and careers, it might be time to rethink who’s setting your agenda.

The Lean Startup Bible states that new services should only address 5 functions. Considering the 4 we just defined plus a business process, we now have everything needed to switch the Action Trigger!

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