Manage your online identity.

After a few weeks on the road, we’re happy to be back home, getting back to work. First, a feature update: we’ve added the ability for you to specify XFN data for your links. XFN is an open standard for semantically describing relationship data for your links - but trust me, it only sounds complicated.

We’re pretty enthralled with making claimID a place where people can easily use open, standards-based ways to describe the information about them. To that extent, we’re currently exploring making the hCard feature more robust, and we’re exploring OpenID for identity verification. I don’t want to promise too much, but I think you can say we’re moving claimID in a good, standards-based direction.

We’ve recieved a few bug reports regarding claimID and older Internet Explorer browsers - we’re on the case and we’re working to resolve the issue.

Finally, I wrote a piece on my blog that I feel sheds a lot of light on the motivation behind claimID. Rather than cross-posting, I’ll boil it down to the essence. Identity and the web is a growing information problem, and it is up to us to start building creative solutions. It is imperative that these solutions benefit the long tail of users, because this is a problem that many of us will face.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, March 21st, 2006 at 7:27 pm and is filed under Dispatches from a beta, claimID.