The Progress Bar

The Progress Bar read by people interested in emerging Internet marketing, technology, social media, reputation, virtual environments, blogs, the Boston Internet scene and much more. If you like what you see you should subscribe to my RSS feed or via email in the sidebar. Thanks for visiting!A month or so ago I talked to Fred [...]

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Yahoo, for one, although after spending time with Fred at ClaimID last week, I’m pretty confident that Micro/ClaimID will drive microformat adoption for identity aggregators and job boards.
Nice writeup about the differences between Structured Blogging and microformats here.
It’s because the Structured Blogging plugins are a TOOL that makes it really easy to create the [...]

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ClaimID is now officially Justouttabeta. Congrats to Fred and Terrell, who I got to meet at Identity Mashup last week.
It’s quite clear that microformats for claiming content are starting to come together, and ClaimID is smart to integrate with OpenID, MicroID and keeping an open mind towards working with other initiatives that strengthen and increase [...]

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“Hello, my name is d4b8ba1042.” If the new crop of content ownership services has it’s way, this could be the way you identify yourself on the internet. While not the easiest to remember, unique identifiers based on personal information are a step closer to making it easier for authors to claim content which is, and [...]

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Johannes Ernst has mentioned Hans Gerwitz’s PersonCode, which appears quite similar to MicroID. Hans’s take on PersonCode is here. I can see 20 people working on projects like this with too much overlap and not enough differentiation to make separate projects worth the effort to the implementors.
The sooner a content-claim Microformat is agreed upon the [...]

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“Hello, my name is d4b8ba1042.” If the new crop of content ownership services has it’s way, this could be the way you identify yourself on the internet. While not the easiest to remember, unique identifiers based on personal information are a step closer to making it easier for authors to claim content which is, and [...]

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