Comments on: On email, logins, idenfiers and identity http://www.mediainfluencer.net/2008/12/on-email-logins-idenfiers-and-identity/ helping people break out of pigeonholes since 2003 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:15:59 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: idLasso, MeeID and retaggr | VRM Labs | sandbox for playing with emerging VRM tools and technologies http://www.mediainfluencer.net/2008/12/on-email-logins-idenfiers-and-identity/comment-page-1/#comment-8083 idLasso, MeeID and retaggr | VRM Labs | sandbox for playing with emerging VRM tools and technologies Fri, 06 Mar 2009 09:51:17 +0000 http://www.mediainfluencer.net/2008/12/on-email-logins-idenfiers-and-identity/#comment-8083 [...] Note*: I often see logins and passwords to various sites and platforms described as “identity”. I don’t think of them as my identity, but as things that I currently need to access bits of my scattered identity, at best they are my meta-identity. I see usernames/passwords/handles/GUID in general as meta-identity or shortcuts to my identity. Just like passport or driving license is not my identity, merely a proxy for it vis-a-vis a particular kind of system or record. More here and here [...] [...] Note*: I often see logins and passwords to various sites and platforms described as “identity”. I don’t think of them as my identity, but as things that I currently need to access bits of my scattered identity, at best they are my meta-identity. I see usernames/passwords/handles/GUID in general as meta-identity or shortcuts to my identity. Just like passport or driving license is not my identity, merely a proxy for it vis-a-vis a particular kind of system or record. More here and here [...]

]]> By: Adriana http://www.mediainfluencer.net/2008/12/on-email-logins-idenfiers-and-identity/comment-page-1/#comment-7760 Adriana Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:47:49 +0000 http://www.mediainfluencer.net/2008/12/on-email-logins-idenfiers-and-identity/#comment-7760 David, Radovan - that's what Mine! is all about. It's a hub for your data and as well as mechanism for 'broadcasting' it. The Mine! project is about equipping people with tools and functionality that will help them: 1. take charge of their data (content, relationships, transactions, knowledge), 2. arrange (analyse, manipulate, combine, mash-up) it according to their needs and preferences and 3. share it on their own terms 4. whilst connected and networked on the web. This is what it's been about all along... http://themineproject.org/ David, Radovan – that’s what Mine! is all about. It’s a hub for your data and as well as mechanism for ‘broadcasting’ it.

The Mine! project is about equipping people with tools and functionality that will help them:

1. take charge of their data (content, relationships, transactions, knowledge),
2. arrange (analyse, manipulate, combine, mash-up) it according to their needs and preferences and
3. share it on their own terms
4. whilst connected and networked on the web.

This is what it’s been about all along…
http://themineproject.org/

]]> By: Mark Hendy http://www.mediainfluencer.net/2008/12/on-email-logins-idenfiers-and-identity/comment-page-1/#comment-7759 Mark Hendy Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:45:22 +0000 http://www.mediainfluencer.net/2008/12/on-email-logins-idenfiers-and-identity/#comment-7759 I agree Radovan. I often use common user names to log onto my online life but there are occasions when I deliberately use psydonyms to log on because I simply don't want my online identity collected by some sites. At times I will also clear all cookies and browsing history before connecting to certain sites and may even choose to reach it through a proxy or SSH tunnel. The prospect of a GUID horrifies me. I agree Radovan. I often use common user names to log onto my online life but there are occasions when I deliberately use psydonyms to log on because I simply don’t want my online identity collected by some sites. At times I will also clear all cookies and browsing history before connecting to certain sites and may even choose to reach it through a proxy or SSH tunnel. The prospect of a GUID horrifies me.

]]> By: Radovan Semancik http://www.mediainfluencer.net/2008/12/on-email-logins-idenfiers-and-identity/comment-page-1/#comment-7758 Radovan Semancik Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:10:31 +0000 http://www.mediainfluencer.net/2008/12/on-email-logins-idenfiers-and-identity/#comment-7758 Right! We need some kind of hub, but we do not need GUID. GUIDs can be harmful, even dangerous in case the sites collude to violate my privacy. I think that GUID thinking (like in OpenID) is all wrong. Right! We need some kind of hub, but we do not need GUID. GUIDs can be harmful, even dangerous in case the sites collude to violate my privacy. I think that GUID thinking (like in OpenID) is all wrong.

]]> By: david cushman http://www.mediainfluencer.net/2008/12/on-email-logins-idenfiers-and-identity/comment-page-1/#comment-7757 david cushman Thu, 11 Dec 2008 08:52:35 +0000 http://www.mediainfluencer.net/2008/12/on-email-logins-idenfiers-and-identity/#comment-7757 Hi Adriana, thanks for responding so fully on this. I'm really trying to drive at what might serve to broadcast our metadata outwards beyond all silos as efficiently and effectively as email can collate it from any and everywhere - and of course bigging up the current value of the personal hub that email gives us in advance of our discovery of that :-) Hi Adriana, thanks for responding so fully on this. I’m really trying to drive at what might serve to broadcast our metadata outwards beyond all silos as efficiently and effectively as email can collate it from any and everywhere – and of course bigging up the current value of the personal hub that email gives us in advance of our discovery of that :-)

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