{"id":15580,"date":"2012-01-24T16:49:55","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T23:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=15580"},"modified":"2012-02-05T10:52:14","modified_gmt":"2012-02-05T17:52:14","slug":"product-idea-constance-the-connector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/15580\/product-idea-constance-the-connector\/","title":{"rendered":"Product idea: Constance the Connector."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a few weeks since I started talking about Constance, and since then I&#8217;ve come up with a completely different way of thinking about operating systems. There are three players who could profit from my thinking &#8212; Apple, Google and Amazon &#8212; and I would be more than happy to share my thoughts to the first one of those three who salutes.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, I give you Constance, which is in some ways the logical counterpart to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=14868#comment-284979\" target=\"_blank\">Heidi, the self-maintaining CRM system I started talking about last August<\/a>. Constance the Connector is a server-based service that maintains your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=15415\" target=\"_blank\">handle<\/a> &#8212; a topic we have discussed before.<\/p>\n<p>So: Here are ways you can know of me:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>By name\n<\/li>\n<li>By street address\n<\/li>\n<li>By phone number\n<\/li>\n<li>By email address\n<\/li>\n<li>By Twitter handle\n<\/li>\n<li>By social media profile\n<\/li>\n<li>etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For now, if you want to address me by one of those means, you have to know the specific proper noun to be used &#8212; my actual name or my current email address. You are responsible for maintaining that information, and everyone who wants to make contact with me must do the same redundant and error-prone maintenance.<\/p>\n<p>A Heidi-like CRM can do some of the maintenance by means of assiduous, arduous data-base mining. But if I don&#8217;t make my new street address public somewhere, your of-course-I-haven&#8217;t-forgotten-about-you greeting card is going to bounce.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s more: The way things work now, I have no control over who addresses me or how. I&#8217;m not just bitching about spam. I want cold-calling salespeople to go straight to voicemail &#8212; and when I have determined that I don&#8217;t want to hear from a particular caller again, I want never to hear from that person ever again.<\/p>\n<p>So think of me this way, instead: @gswann. That&#8217;s my handle: @gswann. Sending em an email? Send it to @gswann. Want to try to get me on the phone? Dial @gswann. Snailmail? Send it to @gswann, you dinosaur. Want to pull my LinkedIn profile? It&#8217;s @gswann.<\/p>\n<p>That much is just the handle idea &#8212; but with a twist. What we&#8217;re doing with the handle @gswann is sending a request to the Constance server for the current mission-critical contact information associated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/15580\/product-idea-constance-the-connector\/#more-15580\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a few weeks since I started talking about Constance, and since then I&#8217;ve come up with a completely different way of thinking about operating systems. There are three players who could profit from my thinking &#8212; Apple, Google and Amazon &#8212; and I would be more than happy to share my thoughts to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[325,212,29,379,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15580","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-crm","7":"category-flourishing","8":"category-group-therapy","9":"category-innovation","10":"category-technology","12":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15583,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/15583\/google-discovers-what-computing-is-actually-for-in-short-well-treat-you-as-a-single-user-across-all-our-products-which-will-mean-a-simpler-more-intuitive-google-experience\/","url_meta":{"origin":15580,"position":0},"title":"Google discovers what computing is actually for: &#8220;In short, we\u2019ll treat you as a single user across all our products which will mean a simpler, more intuitive Google experience.&#8221;","author":"Greg Swann","date":"January 24, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Across all products is important. Across all devices is vital. Drudge and the privacy geeks are going typically apeshit, but Google is playing my tune:\u201cIf you\u2019re signed in, we may combine information you\u2019ve provided from one service with information from other services,\u201d Alma Whitten, Google\u2019s director of privacy, product and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;CRM&quot;","block_context":{"text":"CRM","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/crm\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":15603,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/15603\/q-your-smartphone-has-just-been-stolen-what-should-happen-next-a-your-phone-should-get-the-cops-on-the-horn-and-lead-them-to-the-thief\/","url_meta":{"origin":15580,"position":1},"title":"Q: Your smartphone has just been stolen. What should happen next? 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It does this because Steve Jobs, genius though he was, never quite wrapped his head around\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Disintermediation&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Disintermediation","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/disintermediation\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":15531,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/15531\/product-category-idea-antoinette-the-anticipator\/","url_meta":{"origin":15580,"position":2},"title":"Product (category) idea: Antoinette the anticipator.","author":"Greg Swann","date":"January 3, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I first thought of the idea of an anticipator as hardware, I kid you not. The early 1980s? Software was dear in those days, but early computer-on-a-chip chips were cheap and abundant. There still would have been a software component to an anticipator, of course, but not much. 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