Fred thinks people may pay $5 a year to use ClaimID, or perhaps it will be advertising based.

Let’s be clear, ClaimID is more like a microformat than a service. People will most likely not pay for microformats.

They may pay for a service which aggregates your claimed content let’s you in-line the data into your resume. Somewhat likely.

Monster and other job hunting sites may offer the ability to view ClaimID information to employers or ZoomInfo may want to pull ClaimID data into your profile page. More likely.

LinkedIn and other business networking sites are likely partnership candidates of some sort.

The usefulness of ClaimID is limited until authenticity issues are addressed, until then, people will claim anything and we’ll have claim-spam. We’ll see how ClaimID is received at the Identity Mashup.