Manage your online identity.

Our friends over at JanRain released Jyte today - Jyte is a fun application that lets you make claims on anything (Mailing lists are rubbish, Emacs is better than vi), and it is strongly tied to OpenID.  I’ve had a bunch of fun voting on claims today, and if you want to check it out, all you need to do is sign in with your OpenID (your ClaimID URL or any other OpenID).

Congrats to the entire JanRain team on the launch of this cool product!

A few days ago, Simon Willison introduced idproxy.net, a service that allows you to use you Yahoo! credentials to log in to any OpenID website.  Idproxy serves as a proxy between Yahoo’s browser-based authentication and OpenID, essentially allowing you to use your Yahoo credentials as an OpenID. Kudos to Simon for creating such an innovative tool, and we love the fact ClaimID’s logo is on the front page :).

Great post from Sam Ruby explaining how to OpenID-enable your blog/website/etc.  Says Sam:

Based on the results of my Unobtrusive OpenID post, it is quite evident that there is a lot of partial knowledge about OpenID out there.  While my knowledge on the subject is far from complete, this post is my attempt to share what I have learned with others.

Of course, you can use your ClaimID as your OpenID in any of these examples.  Enjoy!

ClaimID was recently reviewed in the Town of Colonie (NY) Library Newsletter (download the PDF here).  Lots of people review ClaimID, so what makes this one special?  First off, it is from a library.  We at ClaimID are from library school ourselves, so we lurve libraries.  Second, the review was written by my mom, the very technology-savvy reference librarian at William K. Sanford Town Library.

ClaimID (http://www.claimid.com) is a free online identity management service. ClaimID allows claimants to aggregate and annotate online information that is about them or created by them. ClaimID “gives people rather than a search engine, control over their identity.” (http://www.claimid.com/faq)  In addition to ClaimID’s online resume function, the site’s loose structure encourages claimants to create descriptive categories (e.g. blogs, networks, links, photo-sharing) to which they can add content. A ClaimID resume is a dynamic document. Claimants often include links to flickr on their ClaimID page.

We love it!  In other news, Peter St. Andre has been hard at work completing versions .01 and .02 of the MicroID spec.  This is extremely valuable to the MicroID movement.  If you’re interested in contributing to the ongoing efforts with MicroID, please consider joining the MicroID mailing list.

In other news, happy 2007 to everyone!  We’ve got some great stuff planned in 2007, first and foremost of which is this recently-completed hardware migration that has ClaimID running all sorts of snappy.   Best to everyone - thank you for joining us in claiming your identity.