Jyte+MicroID = Verified Jyte profile pages
February 20th, 2007 - Fred StutzmanI noticed the following thread over at Jyte yesterday:
Now there’s a claim I agree with. Sure enough, right after agreeing with it, we recieved a note from Jyte’s Brian Ellin, telling us he’d rolled MicroID into Jyte. A couple of tweaks on our end, a little coding, and just like that we’re now automatically verifying ownership of Jyte profile pages.
This little bit of coding work also gave us an excuse to update our verifier to the MicroID 0.3 spec, and now allows us the ability to verify MicroID’s based on OpenID’s or inames as well. That’s probably sounds like technobabble, but it is significant work towards letting you automatically and verifiably create a trusted profile – one that makes all your web presences stronger and more trustworthy. It is easy, organic reputation, and we think there’s a lot of value there.
Anyway, thanks to Brian at Jyte for this awesome quick turnaround. And if you look at your ClaimID profile, you’ll probably notice your Jyte profile is now verified 
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February 21st, 2007 at 4:18 am
This is so fun; I just post a half-baked idea and it gets implemented by the world’s leading professionals in the field in no time flat. I wonder if I can get Perfect Strangers back on TV…
February 21st, 2007 at 6:43 am
Jay, it *could* happen…
February 22nd, 2007 at 7:28 am
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