{"id":1331,"date":"2013-03-16T22:35:43","date_gmt":"2013-03-17T05:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/?p=1331"},"modified":"2013-03-16T22:35:43","modified_gmt":"2013-03-17T05:35:43","slug":"productsiwant-a-vrm-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/productsiwant-a-vrm-experiment\/","title":{"rendered":"ProductsIWant: A VRM Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vendor_relationship_management\">Vendor Relationship Management<\/a>&#8216;s most appealing ideas is what <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/doc\/\">Doc Searls<\/a> calls &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/53576832\">intent casting<\/a>&#8220;: the (public) announcement by a customer to want to purchase something, so vendors can start competing for the business.<\/p>\n<p>Could this idea also be applied to products that don&#8217;t exist yet? Let&#8217;s start an experiment:<\/p>\n<p>Going forward, when I come up with a &#8220;I really need something that does X&#8221;, I&#8217;m going to blog it right here on my blog. I&#8217;m going to tag it with &#8220;ProductsIWant&#8221;. And some meta-data such as how much I&#8217;d be prepared to pay for it, and when I need it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure what I expect to happen. Probably nothing. But it&#8217;s worth writing these things down, trying out stuff, and see what happens. Thoughts?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the first one: a <a href=\"\/blog\/2013\/03\/productsiwant-a-networked-indoor-pollen-and-dust-meter\/\">networked indoor pollen and dust meter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of Vendor Relationship Management&#8217;s most appealing ideas is what Doc Searls calls &#8220;intent casting&#8221;: the (public) announcement by a customer to want to purchase something, so vendors can start competing for the business. Could this idea also be applied to products that don&#8217;t exist yet? Let&#8217;s start an experiment: Going forward, when I come&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-productsiwant","kind-"],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1331"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1336,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions\/1336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}