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Aldo Castañeda posted our podcast discussing the marketing implications and emerging surfaces of identity and attention systems. The talk primarily covers the layers of the identity stack, with particular focus on data providers and aggregators leading up to my thoughts on how our digital self will be represented in the future.
The podcast is located [...]

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Now this is more like it. A mere two days after I discovered Rapleaf, Opinity announces they will be partners.

Opinity and RapLeaf have entered into an agreement to integrate their services so that they can:
• Pursue and delop ways to create and exchange value related to e-commerce ranking and reputation/reputability for the [...]

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I found this photo of Mike Jones on Esther Dyson’s Flickr account via Marc Canter. (How come Flickr doesn’t accept trackbacks and this triple-threat deep linking stuff is exhausting, where is the plug-in to track the links back themselves so I can cut-n-paste and move on?)

Here’s the text below the photo:

…While other vendors talk about [...]

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Badges, shields, icons and chicklets are becoming more pervasive on blogs and discussion forums as companies offer tracking, verification and identity management services. I recently came across some new entrants, ClaimID and MicroID.

ClaimID will allow users to track, classify, annotate, prioritize and share the information that is about them online.That information is then associated [...]

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Jeremy Wright says Myspace scares the hell out of him. He lays down a few choice comparisons and points I want to riff on.

According to Wright, by the end of the year, MySpace will account for roughly 10% of all web traffic and, by the end of 2006 (if growth and acceleration curves maintain), it [...]

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MySpace employs a staff of about 12 who do nothing but look at all 1.5 million images uploaded each day for inappropriate photos, including pornography. Despite their efforts, some illicit images still get through.’

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After SafeDate made a big PR splash and threw a great party in Miami Beach this year at iDate, the company went way under the radar and a few executives left the company.

SafeDate is back, having recently struck an alliance with DatingHeadshots, to “provide online daters with quality dating headshots and background checks.”

DHS is a [...]

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Techcrunch has a good review of iKarma. I’ve been on the site for a while now and agree with most of what they said, both the good and bad.

Tagging can wait, it’s usefulness to average customer is lost. I spend a lot of time talking about tagging, and most people have to let the concept [...]

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Social Software post about Flickr and Yahoo supporting open identity standards.

My old roomate use to work for Sherry Turkle, who nails why Flickr users are upset at being lumped in with Yahoo members. Part of the Flickr draw was that it is a small group (well smaller than Yahoo at least) who identified with each [...]

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