Manage your real online Identity
ClaimID the product of a couple of North Carolina University alumni is an online identity management system. The system allows you to either manually enter know website urls that you personally vouch is true about you or use the Post to ClaimID bookmarklet for easy bookmarking of site that you approve as true about you. This is what they say about themselves:
...Imagine that you are applying for a job. You know that your prospective employer is going to search for your name online, and since you're a rational person, that worries you. How will your employer know what online stuff is actually about you, and not about that other person who shares your name? And what if the good stuff about you online doesn't mention your full name, or uses a name you no longer go by (such as a maiden name)? How would your prospective employer ever find it? Why do you have to lose out in the eyes of that employer? And the worst part is there's no way for you to easily influence what search engines say about you.Over on the ClaimID Blog you can download the podcast interview they had with Leo Laporte (leo) and Amber MacArthur (ambermac) for Inside the Net on This Week in Tech.
Enter claimID. ClaimID is a service that lets you claim the information that is about you online. That information is then associated with your name, providing folks an easy way to see what is and isn't about you online. In doing so, you get to influence the search engines, and provide people more relevant information when they search for you. It's time to reclaim some power back from the search engines. ClaimID is about letting you have some say in what search engines say about you....
2 comments:
Cesar,
Thanks for the kind words!
Give it a couple weeks and see if your page begins to appear when you search for yourself. That means we're really onto something.
And for the record, I'm no alumnus yet - I was down the road at NCSU for my first few degrees. :)
Terrell
http://claimid.com/terrell
Cesar,
I agree that being able to manage your web identity is a real benefit. The whole area of online identity is going to be very interesting.
A lot of the comments on TWiT were negative because you don't authenticate links. I think they're missing the point as presenting a consistent picture of your identity is a useful first step! And it's a young service so I'm sure they'll keep adding stuff.
Steve
http://www.claimid.com/stevegeorge/
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