Manage your online identity.

A week or two ago, Jeremie Miller of Jabber introduced MicroID, something he describes as “small, decentralized verifiable identity.”  The concept behind MicroID is pretty simple: you place a digital identifier on your webpage, and people can verify that you’re the author (not unlike how Technorati requires you to embed something in your blog to claim it).  Well, this sounded pretty interesting to us, so we went to work and designed a little solution that will automatically generate MicroID’s for all of your claimID links.  All you have to do is click on the MicroID link, and a popup will give you a code snippet you can embed in your pages.  It couldn’t be simpler.  We must note, however, that MicroID is a work in progress (they plan on releasing new specifications soon), so claimID will change as MicroID changes.  We really like the simplicity and standards-based approach of MicroID, so we’re doing what we can to enable people with MicroID’s.

In other news, I came across the Museum of Modern Betas top 50 most anticapated betas.  The list is calculated by number of del.icio.us bookmarks, and MoMB has us down at 99.  This places us at number 15 on the list, not bad at all.  However, when you look up the del.icio.us links for claimid.com and www.claimid.com, our total is a good bit higher - but who’s counting?

This entry was posted on Monday, April 10th, 2006 at 3:05 am and is filed under Dispatches from a beta, claimID.