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SocialPhysics is an open collaborative project sponsored by Parity Communications. The goal of SocialPhysics is to give people more control over their digital identities: their online identities, personal information and social relationships. The project, affiliated with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at the Harvard Law School
As part of the Social Physics Project, Higgins is a framework that will enable users and enterprises to integrate identity, profile, and relationship information across multiple systems. Higgins is also a long-tailed Tasmanian jumping mouse.
Listening to Paul Trevithick warm up the mostly techie group with a status update was a real learning experience. At times like that I’ve learned it’s best to keep my mouth shut and try to keep up with the conversation. Only near the end did I venture to ask a few questions, but the wait was worth it, Paul’s responses had me jumping up and down with excitement. Higgins looks like it is clearly going to be a core part of the Intention economy, but only if companies and websites will take a chance and implement the system. Much more will be written about this, for now, the Introduction to Higgins is probably the best place to get started. Paul says the website will be updated quite a bit in coming weeks.
My quick notes:
multiple context identifiers
air cover and support from Harvard Berkman
Eclipse foundation looked for broadening scope of initiatives
IBM supportive, ushered in Novell
protocol platform neutral
3 layers
applications- browser extension.open source
identity selection services
Identity attribute services
relationship-active cards that capture
persona = template cards
Me thinking about a Skype/VOIP, IM client and the relationship between Plaxo and vcards and MS infospace
interface consistencies and ceremonies decrease phishing
