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ClaimID at the Social Software Symposium

December 11th, 2006 - Fred Stutzman

This weekend, we helped run a Social Software Symposium here in Chapel Hill.  Over 35 researchers, academics and experts gathered for two days to discuss social software - how to design it, how to study it, and how to utilize it.  The conversation was heavily tied to identity - it is unbelievable how much interest there is in identity these days.

If you’re interested in reading some of the symposium materials, here is a link to the wiki.  The wiki has notes on the sessions, research questions, and a lot of other useful stuff we brainstormed over the course of the weekend.  Very fun stuff.

This entry was posted on Monday, December 11th, 2006 at 4:51 am and is filed under claimID.

One Response to “ClaimID at the Social Software Symposium”

  1. Kevin Farnham Says:
    December 17th, 2006 at 6:39 am

    I have been studying social networks in the past year, and wrote a book about MySpace. I’m currently working on the new AOL dev.aol.com site, so I’m becoming very familiar with AOL’s social networking projects, many of which are centered on AIM.

    It seems to me that the AOL system, which ties one’s identity within a range of coordinated online presences to an AIM screen name, has a relationship to the goals of ClaimID — though it’s a different approach.

    That said, in my blog I talk about the situation where people will have multiple AIM screen names, say a professional one and a personal one. There, the necessities ClaimID addresses become again critical. Instead of which sites are “really me”, it’s which screen names are “me”? and, of course, which are not me (even though they appear similar in some way).

    I’m wondering if ClaimID has looked at the AOL/AIM approach? They’re a “new” but also “old” player in social networks. I don’t know if their approach will catch on, but I do know they’re putting all their marbles into this new effort at attracting developers into using their stuff. A “screen name” related extension or module for ClaimID might be a unique offering.

    Just thinking about all of this after having written a blog titled “AIM as Social Network Hub, Enabler of Coadunation”… Writing it reminded me of ClaimID and its efforts.

    Kevin Farnham

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