I found OpenId very hard to set up and manage. I think it’s because there aren’t many uses for it, if you aren’t a developer, and it’s simply not used on sites enough. Plus I didn’t want to read pages of text – a graphic walkthrough suitable for a 3 year old suits me just fine, fanks. But ClaimID implementation is a different matter. Over the last few months there’s been a lot of discussions around our identity on the ‘net. For me – and I don’t think, in spite of what Lynne Spender said, that I’m that eccentric – Continue Reading…
Posted by Laurel Papworth at 11:45 am Tagged with: API, browser search, Chris Brogan, CSV export facility, Google, Identity, identity tools, John Smith, Lynne Spender, Online Communities, Private, search function, social bookmarking site, social networks
A personal message on Facebook has got me wondering which one is the real me… Number 1: The Angelic Being of Social Network Goodness? The Fairy Godmother of Communities?Number 2: Or the Wicked Witch of the Web? the Pixie with Pixel Attitude (and boots)? View Laurel Papworth’s map Taken in (See more photos here) Number 3: It certainly ain’t that airbrushed hoyden from Second Life. I’m having a personality fracture. But I’d like to be number 3. Google Blogspot sucks at adding in ‘rating and ranking’. Embed ratings I mean. And yes, there is a poll widget but it doesn’t Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 11:13 pm Tagged with: Avatars, Facebook, Identity, laurel papworth, social networks
Ripped from Zdnet Were you there for the WebJam a few months ago where I talked about the need for an industry organisation – or an unIndustry organisation – to protect content providers and interactive media producers who happened to be you and me? To assert how and where and when we access our profiles, content, swarms, and so on? You’d remember if you were there – I was the one wearing Pink Wings and a Pink Wig. Well Joseph Smarr, Marc Canter, Robert Scoble, and Michael Arrington seem to be heading in the same direction – from Marc Canter’s Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 2:57 pm Tagged with: crash, Identity, Online Communities, social media, Social Media Australia, social networks, social web, web 2.0
Aug 142007
Federal Member for Corangamite Stewart McArthur.Photo: Everard Himmelreich Golly: MP Lashes out at fake MySpace profile: A federal MP has hit out at MySpace for allowing a “offensive, vulgar and inflammatory” fake site to be set up in his name. MySpace is a social networking website that allows people to set up free personalised web pages. Stewart McArthur, the government’s deputy whip, said the fake page – which has since been taken down – had included his photograph. The unauthorised website portrayed Mr McArthur as a vicious homophobe who wanted to become prime minister, according to local media. Yep it Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 4:58 pm Tagged with: deputy whip, federal MP, Identity, laurel papworth, local media, personalised web pages, Prime Minister, Social Media Australia, social networking website, social networks, Stewart McArthur, web 2.0
Here’s one for you identity nuts out there (hankyoreh): Identification verification required for online boards New rules may reduce slander on the net As of June 27, South Korea’s major Internet portal operators, including Naver and Daum, are being required to verify the identification of anyone who attempts to leave a comment on their online bulletin boards. According to the Ministry of Information and Communication, a ‘‘limited real-name system’’ will be introduced to major portal operators on a trial basis, before being fully enforced later next month, when a total of 35 Internet business operators will be subject to the Continue Reading…
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Posted by Laurel Papworth at 10:41 pm Tagged with: Daum, Identity, Internet business operators, Internet portal operators, Korea, major Internet portal operators, Ministry of Information and Communication, Naver, online bulletin boards, Online Communities, portal operators, social networks, South Korea, spokesperson, web surfers
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