I connected to Signon.com and in order to play around with OpenID and the Bandit Identity Card Selector.
It works great on linux, and.. , well... , not at all on windows.
In order to test the functionality, I have signed up with various OpenID enabled sites like:
Ziki
Plaxo
All these networking sites are starting to feel and look the same. How many different ways am I going to connect to people? Linkedin, Facebook, Plaxo?
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most networking sites provide a feed of activity by email or rss so i find you can be on multiple sites without having to actually regularly login to each
i find it useful to be on most of them as different friends are on different sites (sigh), and it means i can claim my id before someone else does (i always go for 'gavinknight')
that said, i've settled on Facebook for personal networking and LinkedIn for professional networking as they align with where most of my 'friends' 'reside'
i like the comment on http://enterprise20-nz.blogspot.com/2007/11/5-easy-ways-to-protect-your-online.html that you can think of Facebook as 'BBQ and beer with the lads' whereas LinkedIn is more 'drinks and nibbles with clients at the office' ... in terms of the types of conversations you would have in each network, even when some 'friends' are both personal and professional contacts
i use www.claimid.com to provide my OpenID ... gives me an OpenID and a repository to list ('claim') my accounts on various sites (http://claimid.com/gavinknight)
With the advent of web 2.0 (making little quote marks with my fingers) it seems that any site can invite networking interaction.
I am starting to get embarrassed spamming my network in order to connect with them.
There must be a better way. From an identity point of view, I only have one version of a friend/contact, I should only have to connect with them once.
in general I agree with "I should only have to connect with them once" except I would add "or twice"
eg our relationship is both personal and professional, and I am comfortable keeping our online networking in (at least) 2 places to facilitate that
you may be only 1 person, but you can have multiple connections with someone ... this applies in physical world interactions as well as online interactions
eg our mutual friend alastair is also my wife's cousin, and is also a fellow leader at our church, and his wife is a longtime (since childhood) friend of mine through church, and her/my parents are very close friends, etc etc ... my interaction with him/them differs in content/style/formality depending on context and I think there is a flavour of this in the online world
the only way to avoid a proliferation of sites would be for the socialists to decree which service is the only 1 we are allowed to use!
even if all sites could federate with each other (eg through something like OpenID) there's always going to be some sites that think they have a better idea ... and that is necessary to foster innovation and competition
that said, there is a place for collaboration between services ... eg it is crazy I have to be a member of facebook and myspace and bebo in order to network with friends who are on each service ... why can't i be a member of 1 network that facilitates interactions with the other networks too
much like you can now TXT between phone networks here in NZ whereas you used to only be able to TXT within the telecom and vodafone networks but not between them
Hmmm. I couldn't (respectfully) disagree more.
I think we all have one ID in the real world, and we choose how we interact with people.
Online, we should only have one ID and (using the model of identity centric computing) control how our Identity information is dispersed to other individuals.
To use you examples, I would allow you to see my work details but because I know you personal I would also share my personal details.
I choose, but I still only have one ID.
maybe the difference is you seem to be primarily talking about identity itself (where I agree we each have only 1)
but I am primarily talking about interactions between identities (eg you/me) because my interpretation of your original post is along those lines
and given the inherent differences in "content/style/formality depending on context" my opinion is that it is OK for these interactions to occur in multiple locations (spread across the online and physical worlds)
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