Tech Crunch has a review of Profile Linker.
They have one partnership sealed already, with Photobucket, and hope to do more. But for sites where they are unable to get a partnership they’ll have to gather information using the user’s credentials. There’s a risk that networks will simply cut them off.
They have portable profiles:
Portable Profiles [...]
My results:You are Superman
Superman
90%
Robin
60%
Supergirl
59%
Iron Man
55%
Wonder Woman
54%
Hulk
50%
Spider-Man
40%
Green Lantern
40%
Batman
40%
Catwoman
20%
The Flash
20%
You are mild-mannered, good, strong and you love to help others.
Click here to take the “Which Superhero are you?” quiz…
I found this on Paul Madson’s blog today while looking up Yadis history. I didn’t really realize we had a ’song’ in the community. Maybe for the next IIW we will have a few more.
Y.M.C.A (without the overt sexuality)
Johannes calls for contributions to the YADIS song.
Note: for optimum enjoyment, this should be sung [...]
Marc’s Blog post on the decentralized network.
Because there is no benefit to human beings for clustering with 1,000,000’s of other human beings. Yes – having lots of people helps bands promote themselves or marketeers reach these folks, but it doesn’t directly help end-users any.
Humans cluster between 15-25 – and 150 or thereabouts. That’s [...]
This incident went by on a few mailing lists I am on. The CEO of Craigslist talking to “Wall Street types ” who were “Confused capitalists wondering how a company can exist without the urge to maximize profits.” (ZDNet)
From the NYTimes:
Mr. Buckmaster took questions from the bemused audience, which apparently could not get its collective [...]
Mashable has a great breakdown of the best in social networks in different categories. If you are aware that YouTube and MySpace exist but are not familiar with the whole range this is a great starter article to begin to ‘get it.’ It also helps make obvious why open standards for identity and datasharing [...]
Twas the Geek Before Christmas
‘Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the shop,
The computers were whirring; they never did stop.
The power was on and the temperature right,
In hopes that AI would surface that night.
The system was ready, the program was coded,
The backups and files had been carefully loaded;
An inadvertent Christmasy glow to the scene,
The [...]
Michael got the title of this blog post right: Somebody needs to stop this: It is so egregious I am just going to post it all. Hopefully some of the lawyers in identity land have some thoughts.
Brobeck, Pleger & Harrison LLP was a well known law firm in silicon valley during the first Internet boom. [...]
Here are some excerpts from the Indian Express about the proposed scheme and pilot project.
From the IndianExpress:
National Identity Number to each citizen, and also features finger biometrics and a photograph of the individual. In other words, this is the definitive dossier on that particular citizen.
The objectives of the scheme are said to be enhancing [...]
Two friends started blogging
Anslem Hook with praxis makes perfect has begun talking about his idea of a map centered conversational interface.
Laurie Rae a fellow woman in the identity space and Canadian has started – MyWhat? talking about Giving 2.0 and the best conceptual christmas present ever.
I am very glad that there are these new [...]
Attributor Corp is launching a product that combs the entire web for ‘unauthorized uses.’ From the WSJ:
They claim to have cracked the thorny computer-science problem of scouring the entire Web by using undisclosed technology to efficiently process and comb through chunks of content. The company says it will have over 10 billion Web pages in [...]
This story comes from Slashdot. A startup Polar Rose is about to launch a face search tool.
Polar Rose relies on a combination of our unique face recognition algorithms and the collective intelligence of our users….we don’t and can’t rely exclusively on face recognition, but also harness the collective intelligence of our users who help [...]
We had our 3rd ‘you can feel it’ earthquake in the past 4 days. Here is the link on USGS site for the lastest one we had 30 minuets ago. You can always click here to see the latest quakes in the US. It makes me worried about a ‘big one’ we have [...]
Brad Topliff is sort of like me. A non-techie guy into user-centric identity, i-names, XDI and how cool they could be. He works at ooTao with Andy Dale. He has started blogging in part because he was named person of the year. The blog is called – “Who Are You?.” His second [...]
It should be noted to all of you coming from O’Reilly’s radar. That OpenID (the latest version) does accept i-names and identityprovider URL’s (this is the Sxip way of identity provision).
One of the reasons that i-names are cool is that they have persistence in a way that URLs have some challenges with in [...]
From Slashdot: Federal prosecutors say they don’t need a search warrant to read your e-mail messages if those messages happen to be stored in someone else’s computer.
“We’re looking at a future in which almost all of our private papers are in the hands of third parties and not protected by the Fourth Amendment,” said [...]
I of all people should have done this before but I was waiting for OpenID 2.0 to be out there and working so I could use my i-name. I went to Ma.gnolia today and it just worked. They have a great way to integrate an OpenID with an existing account. I hope [...]
In the coming year I am speaking at O’Reilly’s emerging Telephony conference identity.
I attended the show last year and learned a bit about how that whole space.
How traditional telco’s think
The latest on VOIP beyond Skype and
I had never heard of Astrerix before (it is open source PBX software for office phone networks [...]
I like the sound of that could it be Data 2.0?
Scott Keveton has a great post on why the big guys should adopt OpenID and hopefully Open Standards for Data too. He has three more reasons besides these two great ones:
Data is the new software: People may laugh at me on this, but its not [...]
Well this should be a fun day in January Liberty 2.0. It is the week of Doc’s workshop on VRM at CNET.
It features Identity Gang favorites like Eve Maler, Conor Cahill, Paul Madson and Mary Rudy from Higgins.
If done well it should be a great opportunity to support the Web 2.0 social [...]
So we thought we had problems with RFID chips floating around. Well just wait until these little gadgets can start scanning us. This is coming up now I am going through my notes from the past 6 months in my little black book and finding out about all sorts of little things. I took this [...]
I met Mike for the first time at IIW2006a in May. I am not totally sure how he got there (I am sure that is a subject of a few blog posts) but some how it was through the Imergence project.
He is a non-engineer and relative “newbie” in the community. In [...]
I found the belo description of and IBMers experience of a meeting in Second Life and it highlighted the big challenges that virtual world. I personally have given up on Second Life and await a new virtual world that is actually usable. I had high hopes and even founded the Identity Gang. [...]
The weather that Tom brings us on OpenID is mixed but good in the long run. He says that community is what counts
Here’s what I learned enabling the sites with OpenID:The Good: OpenID registration is a beautiful thing. The legacy registration page on Stuffopolis can be scrapped. Once that happens, validating email addresses, [...]
Last year’s predictions included this:
4. Collaboration applications will get in the identity game.
One of the areas that will suddenly find itself in the middle of the identity conversation will be collaboration applications — by that we mean blogs, feedreaders, wikis, etc. The new “social networking” applications will start to seriously go after the identity [...]
They have just compiled their list of 10 predictions for the coming year. Two of them have to do with user-centric stuff.
3. URL-based identity begins a cycle of real adoption in the blogosphere and alpha geek communities.
URL-based identity overcame many technical and interoperability hurdles in 2006, and got key buy-in from developing communities. 2007 [...]
From Bruce Schneier:
However, it turns out that the transmitter in your sneaker can be read up to 60 feet away. And because it broadcasts a unique ID, you can be tracked by it. In the demonstration, the researchers built a surveillance device (at a cost of about $250) and interfaced their surveillance system with Google [...]
I went through TechCrunch today as I do on a weekly basis to check out what is new in web2 land. Lots of kids building interesting things but I kind of think mmmm…to a lot of them. Also lots of acquisition rumors. By the end of it I wondered why me? Why this [...]
The Feds have some plan to photograph every kid in the United States a company called Lifetouch is doing it/going to do it. It is all based on the premise that kids go missing and they need good photos for the rescue efforts. Parents are issued a card for each of their children [...]
Chris and Ponzi and Raines and Betsy both got married on Saturday. One couple in Seattle and the other in Berkeley.
I had the pleasure to be witness to Raines and Betsy’s quaker wedding. Their was no celebrant we all sat quietly and they came in and sat at the front under [...]
Tim O’Reilly From eitb24:
Certain kinds of databases are going to become really big and really useful. we are just in the early stages where for example digital identity doesn’t really work yet but that world start to coalesce, where all these different sources of identity will start to be resolved and connect to each [...]
One of my favorite sites is Dabble.com. partly cause my friend Mary built it but also because it is just fun. The range of human creativity and spirit seen there is quite inspiring. I also wish I had more ‘friends’ there because it is the social media bits that are the best. [...]
I found this while using Snap too. I have to say it is way more entertaining then Google. As you toggle down the suggested site. I will be back to try it out more regularly.
From Fishbowl on Oct 25th 2005….
“I’ve noticed that whenever I have a photo on Flickr that I want to embed [...]
From Psych 1271 at Northeastern University
Social Identity Theory
o We like in-groups because we are motivated to achieve and maintain a positive self-image.
o This self-image has two components.
[...]
I went to TechCrunch today as I am apt to do on a weekly basis.
The top post was on the Million Dollar homepage. When you scrolled over it this box came up saying one could use Snap to search the web with pictures. So I tried it. typing in ‘identity’ to the search [...]
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