Manage your online identity.

We’ve noticed another site using MicroID in the wild. We now proudly name Wink.com alongside our earlier early adopters at http://claimid.com/microid. To make sure your link is verified, please confirm the format of the URL you’ve put on your claimID page is the same as listed on our MicroID list. Either the codes match or they don’t - so check it close.

Wink.com describes themselves as ‘the people search engine’.

Wink allows you to verify other site information via MicroID, as well as entering your actual login/password credentials for sites like MySpace and LinkedIn. If you trust Wink.com with your credentials, these both serve the same function.

Remember that finding someone and verifying who they are should be an organic human process and you should probably depend on more than one source (like any research you do). MicroID allows this kind of triangulation, and does it in the clear. Please continue to encourage the other sites you use to publish MicroIDs so you can build your own reputations online - so you can take the good things you do and say on one site with you to other sites.

In unrelated news, IIW2007 was a great success and Fred and I met a few new faces and reconnected with some older ones. The identity space is still picking up speed and with a flurry of new projects showing successful interoperability with Higgins and CardSpace and OSIS, the energy is really starting to compound. We’re proud to be a part of what is happening.

This entry was posted on Saturday, May 19th, 2007 at 5:23 pm and is filed under MicroID, claimID.