AggregatingProfileData
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Who came to this session?
joseph smarr - leader (from plaxo)
scott isaacs - windows live
trevin chow - windows live id
joe gariorek - imeem
cindy lu - intel
sandy kemsley - column2
and Cassie Dara-Abrams
and Kaliya and Johannes joined later as well as another guy
Main Ideas for Session
Aggregating Profile Data
-Sources
-Identity
-Authoring
-Permissions
-Shared pattern
Notes from Session
starting point - how do you verify all of a user's submited info and verify that it is really theirs?
However, does this really matter? do you need to verify? if that person can't change the info then does it matter if you verify?
users invented single sign in awhile ago.. they just use same username privacy is a big issue. do we want all of our information in one place?
different personas?
what are people okay with sharing with others?
setting up friends on a network by looking at IM lists
friends of friends... is this a closer connection than just a stranger? since you have SOME connection, it seems to be closer than a stranger
microsoft: bigger point: are users just giving away their credentials out to companies? (passwords...)
mebo was connected somehow to this topic.
Kaliya - she and johannes have done identity gang
plaxo- don't make users have to use a new website and thing, go to where they already are!
openID and i-names (inames.net) have been connected to do OpenID2.0
Card Based is another tool. Under card based is: card space (vista), open source identity selected and higgins.
idcomments.net and identitygang.org are Kaliya's.
getting back to topic...
plaxo- but how do you put these things together (like blog, comments..) how do you get them together?
johannes - netmesh.org/BLAHBLAH.html (blahblah is what your username or whatever)
johannes went into a bunch of technical things.. if you would like to know more about what he was talking to him contact him!
In-depth discussion on openID as a solution against other large scale identity providers like Microsoft (windows live id), google, yahoo, etc. Proposal is that anyone can be their own identity provider hosted on their website. Credential names are URL based (eg. http://somedomain.com/johannes) and that URL actually acts as the identity provider. Question was raised on small # of users that actually host their own server, so invariably singular entities become identity providers for huge #'s of users.
Kaliya- there is something that has been created for having one place for all of your stuff: people services. It somehow manages all of your stuff. seems like it would be very useful for managing all of your stuff on the web.
what is and isn't/should/shouldn't be connected to each other? Do I want my phone # connected to my address?
Notes taken by CassieDara-Abrams
