The Progress Bar

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 the value of microformat-based data aggregation.

ZoomInfo is a summarization search engine which approaches content aggregation with a crawl-based system. As I mentioned to Fred last week, ZoomInfo would be a great partner for ClaimID. I’ll even link to the Partner page to make it easier.

I’m curious about what people think about Technorati’s Microformats Search. Do you think it’s a good idea for Technorati to support ClaimID as well?

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 better. Hashing an email address isn’t terribly difficult, it’s making the meta-data usable to regular people which is difficult. That’s if an email address is what’s going to be used as the base identifier.

ClaimID blog is worth a look if you haven’t visited Fred’s world yet. I read they are making it so you can use your name in your ClaimID links, which will be nice for the early adopters until the next John Smith wants to claim his name. Unless I’m missing something?

Leo Laporte claimed his PGP key, smart.

When this stuff is as simple as CoComment in Firefox, it’s going to take off. For now, it’s Just Outta Beta.