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A few weeks ago, ClaimID spoke with Aldo Castañeda, the man behind the must-listen identity podcast The Story of Digital Identity. Today, Aldo posted the interview, and we’re quite pleased with the result. In the interview, we explore ClaimID - the service, the problem we’re trying to solve, the challenges, the design decisions - attempting to give folks more of an idea of where we’re coming from. Podcasts like Aldo’s are vital for helping us spark the conversation we need to be having about our search identity.

Listen to this podcast - and if you’re even tangentially interested in Identity 2.0, subscribe. The previous episodes with Dave Evans (link) and Johannes Ernst and Dick Hardt (link) were very informative and enjoyable. Thanks to Aldo - you’re really doing the identity community a great service with your work.

Today, we spoke with Leo Laporte (leo) and Amber MacArthur (ambermac) for Inside the Net 21: ClaimID on This Week in Tech.

The interview lasts just over 38 minutes.

A great interview team, they asked all about claimID and had us walk them through our inspiration and development process. We talked about the features we have and all the features we chose to leave out to keep it simple. They seemed genuinely happy to be able to claim their online activities - it was quite fun to hear them ‘get it’ on the air.

We spoke about Ruby on Rails and our feelings on the framework that allowed us to serve a live product in only five months. We spoke about microformats as well as our time at the Internet Identity Workshop last week.

We had a great time and let me say, using Skype for interviews is wonderful. No long distance and from the comfort of your own couch. Tough to beat.

This will surely vault us into the position of “most sought after graduate students to talk to about big-time web application development”. Or something like that.

Thanks Leo and Amber.