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Marc Canter takes on the first aspect of the mesh: identity. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks
Own Your Identity

ownyouridentity.com is a blog about owning your online identity in a world with an increasing amount of software that wants to own it for you. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks
Vintage Logos - a photoset on Flickr

Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. Show off your favorite photos to the world, securely and privately show photos to your friends and family, or blog the photos you take with a cameraphone. Saved By: Daniel Aengenheyster | View Details | Give Thanks
Vintage Logos - a photoset on Flickr

Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. Show off your favorite photos to the world, securely and privately show photos to your friends and family, or blog the photos you take with a cameraphone. Saved By: Daniel Aengenheyster | View Details | Give Thanks
OpenID 2.0?Final(ly)!

After a long period of discussion among the community final specifications of OpenID Auth (2.0) and OpenID attribute exchange (1.0) have been announced during the last day of The Internet Identity Workshop. Great news. The more mature, the merrier! Saved By: André Luís | View Details | Give Thanks
Portable Social Networks: Take Your Friends with You [Content]

As each new social networking site becomes the Next Big Thing, we spend hours recreating our accounts, contact details, and associations with people we know. Brian believes we should support - and create - sites that make users' profile data portable, and in this article he tours some current and evolving tools that make the sharing of information between services a cinch! Saved By: mathieu | View Details | Give Thanks
NoseRub - The home of decentralized, social networks

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The word came in May 2006: Ali Mohammed Nasser Mohammed, a slight, 24-year-old Yemeni with curly black hair and a wispy beard, would be freed from Guantanamo after more than four years. He got a checkup. His photo was taken, as were his fingerprints. He was measured for clothes and shoes, then offered a meeting with the Red Cross.
Brett Shannon Johnson is a credit-card and identity thief. In five years of crime, the 37-year-old estimates he's stolen about $2 million -- some of it while working as a paid informant for the U.S. Secret Service.
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Two years ago, major Hispanic groups broke with other civil rights organizations and supported Alberto R. Gonzales's nomination for attorney general, primarily because he would become the highest-ranking Latino ever in a presidential Cabinet. Now, these groups say they are suffering from buyer's remorse.
Conversation Hub » The unintentional social network

Suw explains today's data trails of our social interactions
Richard Guthrie, a 92-year-old Army veteran, was one of those victims. He ended up on scam artists' lists because his name, like millions of others, was sold by large companies to telemarketing criminals, who then turned to major banks to steal his life's savings.
I thought I knew who I was--until I tried to establish my "identity" with the U.S. Passport Center.
Second Life is the center of a whole new set of controversies regarding the ages of its "residents." That is, Linden Lab has no way to verify until now, that is. The company announced late last week that they will "shortly" begin testing an age and ID verification system that will require residents to provide real-life proof of
There is a new crime parents need to be concerned about. You have probably heard of identity theft. While you may have taken steps to protect yourself, did you ever think you needed to protect your children from identity thieves?
A senior official at the Department of Justice explains how identity theft rings work, and reveals that FBI agents are now stationed full-time in Romania to help deal with the problem.
"Passive candidates" are the targets of a growing number of Internet savvy recruiters called sourcers, who scour the Web for hot prospects. This means that just as having the wrong kind of Web presence can be a career killer, having the right one can open doors.
Identity thieves are offering a person's credit-card number, date of birth, and other sensitive information for as little as $14 over the Internet, said a new report on online threats released Monday.
In just about any other place, the sight of a man and woman pushing a stroller would be welcomed as a sign of stability and safety. In San Francisco's heavily gay Castro District, some people can't help but think: There goes the neighborhood.
OpenID - What is it, and why everyone is talking about it - CenterNetworks - News, Reviews, Insights and Interviews

Kevin Rose, speaking here at the Future of Web Apps conference in London, just announced that Digg will adopt the OpenID decentralized digital identity platform.
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