Ministry of Intrigue covers ClaimID, Bugfixes, Etc.
May 24th, 2006 - Fred StutzmanDaniel Andrlik, the Minister of Intrigue, has posted a wonderful meditation on ClaimID on his blog. He explores features, use cases, and asks important questions.
Admittedly, someone like myself could just create and maintain a page like that on my own site, but not everyone has their own domain, even though they might have a significant presence online via social networking sites like MySpace, LiveJournal, Last.fm, or other sites. For those types of users, a service like claimID can be invaluable as a resource, as our digital and analog lives continue to converge. In fact, I would argue that this type of service has a great deal of value for those of us who do have our own sites, as claimID provides a way to standardize the data. Just include a link on your site, homepage in another networking site, or even on your resume to your claimID user page in order to provide readers with a sort of executive summary of your online identity. Also, by linking to your user page, and by using your legal name for your claimID username you will increase the search rankings of your “link resume” which helps get people to your page faster.
This is going in our favorite reviews category. Now I’ve got a question that maybe you can help me out with. Over 250 bloggers have written stories about ClaimID, and we’re interested in re-paying them (in Technorati karma). How would you suggest the best way to go about this? Do we do a few posts where we just link back to these blog entries? Would that totally annoy ClaimID blog readers? Please let me know your thoughts. It seems only fair to link back to people, especially if we’re corporate blogging. Everyone loves links!
Finally, we’ve been introducing bugfixes left and right lately. The big news is we fixed an IE bug that was crashing browsers. The problem was with a css width:expression call. We’re so not IE css experts, but those of you who are are probably laughing at us. That’s ok. We’re making progress on OpenID’ing ClaimID, which we couldn’t do without the help of the excellent minds at JanRain. The summer is off to a good start!
