Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.
Re: A call for universal registration.
Author: Phil Wolff Posted: 3/21/2000; 12:39:49 PM Topic: scriptingNews outline for 3/21/00 Msg #: 15661 (In response to 15655) Prev/Next: 15660 / 15662 Spending 10-20 minutes registering each time you need to shop or join a conversation? How much time do you spend paying at a fast food joint? 15 seconds?
This is a real problem. The answer is the creation of infomediaries; firms to whom you entrust your data and who put it use for you.
Likely commercial infomediaries:
- Intuit (who have much of your financial info already courtesy of Quicken and Quickbooks)
- Visa, MasterCard, AmEx and other credit card companies (who can combine credit line with ship-to addressing)
- FedEx, Visa, USPS, and other shipping companies (who know where you live and work, and when you come to the door).
Another way: Gator gives you a browser companion that fills out the forms from data stored on your hard drive. Gator makes money from promotions and data aggregation. We can expect the list above to make theirs by selling a data-fullfilment transaction to vendors.
- Phil [http://dijest.com]
There are responses to this message:
- Re: A call for universal registration., Dave Winer, 3/21/2000; 12:47:23 PM
- Re: A call for universal registration., Paul Snively, 3/21/2000; 4:38:19 PM
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