Comments on: Favorite Examples in the Wild

By: claimID - Claim your Web Identity « There are the days

claimID - Claim your Web Identity « There are the days — Sat, 05 May 2007 08:49:07 +0000

[...] claimID – Claim your Web Identity Have you ever done a Google search for your name and not been at the top of the results, or wished that you could change the order of the results. i.e. have the most relavant or latest sites and stories about you at the top? Well then claimID is for you.claimID allows you to create a page listing all your web identities, so you would add your blog, your del.icio.us links, stories about you, articles written by you etc. Anyone then, including yourself, doing a Google search will find you. The “you” that you want to represent on the web. You can order and group the links as you wish.clamID also allows you to add links that are not about you. i.e. if there is another person out there with the same name as you, you could add their blog etc. So if a potential employer was searching for you, they would know that those links are not yours.The site is currently in private beta, but thats to Inside the Net, you can register without an invite by clicking this link. link to my claimID pagesee some favorite examples in the wild on the claimID blog [...]

By: johnon.com » Blog Archive » “Weâ€™re part of a much larger conversation”

Thu, 07 Sep 2006 04:45:54 +0000

[...] If you’re not a search person, skip the rest of this. It might be misleading. You may misread it for cynicism or think I am being negative. Please leave now and don’t allow yourself to be so deceived. But if you understand search, what the heck is ClaimID? Third party links page a-la Bruce Clay circa 2001, but executed overtly and as a business model? Bottom feeding on people with very unique names, who think this is the answer to their SEO/PR problem, and listing the faithful as “favorite examples in the wild“? Look at those names…Brian Benzinger, Stowe Boyd, Ottmar Liebert, Alex Muntada, Patrick Cormier, Derek Punsalan. It doesn’t get much more unique than some of these. They cna rank themselves with a small handful of links… internals even! It’s not like their non-web offline citizens… these are all bloggers! Link bait sure, but as a company? Building a community of followers, sure, but ones who could be enlightened with a pen light? At first I thought it was a back door way to build a resume site, but there are too many blog posts, dutifuly commented by The Creators, for a baitÂ ‘n switch like that. This is a pea grean and light blue, rounded-corner grab at something for sure. But what? [...]

By: rik varela

rik varela — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 13:22:54 +0000

this is indeed a good post. while i found claimid useful, it gives me more ideas on how others collect, organize, categorize and present/package information relevant to them.

By: Dawn Isaac » claimID Revisted

Dawn Isaac » claimID Revisted — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 02:55:16 +0000

[...] Awhile back I wrote a post about claimID. Today I was again checking my referrals and found a link from the claimID blog. They wrote to me asking if they could use my page as an example of how people could use claimID back in February. Can read what they wrote here. They even wished me a Happy Birthday!! How cool is that. [...]

By: Dawn Isaac

Dawn Isaac — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 01:57:26 +0000

Thanks for the Birthday Wishes! I have gotten a ton of greetings today.