Comments on: On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog http://www.rebeccacottrell.co.uk/blog/2008/02/21/on-the-internet-nobody-knows-you%e2%80%99re-a-dog/ Rebecca Cottrell's blog Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:50:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: David http://www.rebeccacottrell.co.uk/blog/2008/02/21/on-the-internet-nobody-knows-you%e2%80%99re-a-dog/#comment-53 David Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:22:38 +0000 http://www.rebeccacottrell.co.uk/blog/2008/02/21/on-the-internet-nobody-knows-you%e2%80%99re-a-dog/#comment-53 But what of those who decide at some point they no longer want to be thoroughly connected? How would such people extricate themselves from a system of identification whose parts are beyond their control -- or whose parts are so numerous as to make re-acquiring anonymity difficult to impossible? But what of those who decide at some point they no longer want to be thoroughly connected?

How would such people extricate themselves from a system of identification whose parts are beyond their control — or whose parts are so numerous as to make re-acquiring anonymity difficult to impossible?

]]> By: Matt Carey http://www.rebeccacottrell.co.uk/blog/2008/02/21/on-the-internet-nobody-knows-you%e2%80%99re-a-dog/#comment-39 Matt Carey Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:53:02 +0000 http://www.rebeccacottrell.co.uk/blog/2008/02/21/on-the-internet-nobody-knows-you%e2%80%99re-a-dog/#comment-39 What’s needed is a sort of DNS for people. Like that! Have you heard of XFN (http://gmpg.org/xfn/) -- cross-linking of people at its most simplistic. The problem is the organisations who hold presence have all done their own thing. This is same with usernames and passwords, which openid is slowly starting to solve. What has given openid traction is that for organisations it is very easy to set-up. My openid, for example, is my iChat username. AOL have turned all AIM usernames into openids. Really simple, no hassle for me. If a standard is developed where organisations can convert their bespoke presence into a global standard one, without too much work, then it might happen. What’s needed is a sort of DNS for people.

Like that!

Have you heard of XFN (http://gmpg.org/xfn/) — cross-linking of people at its most simplistic.

The problem is the organisations who hold presence have all done their own thing. This is same with usernames and passwords, which openid is slowly starting to solve. What has given openid traction is that for organisations it is very easy to set-up. My openid, for example, is my iChat username. AOL have turned all AIM usernames into openids. Really simple, no hassle for me.

If a standard is developed where organisations can convert their bespoke presence into a global standard one, without too much work, then it might happen.

]]> By: Chris Hill-Scott http://www.rebeccacottrell.co.uk/blog/2008/02/21/on-the-internet-nobody-knows-you%e2%80%99re-a-dog/#comment-38 Chris Hill-Scott Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:44:13 +0000 http://www.rebeccacottrell.co.uk/blog/2008/02/21/on-the-internet-nobody-knows-you%e2%80%99re-a-dog/#comment-38 Brad Fitz's ideas are pretty much exactly what I was thinking of. I even had the idea that you could create a unique identifier for someone by hashing a piece of info about them. The part I don't understand is how to work out where to find information about a user in a distributed system. What's needed is a sort of DNS for people. Brad Fitz’s ideas are pretty much exactly what I was thinking of. I even had the idea that you could create a unique identifier for someone by hashing a piece of info about them. The part I don’t understand is how to work out where to find information about a user in a distributed system. What’s needed is a sort of DNS for people.

]]> By: Matt Carey http://www.rebeccacottrell.co.uk/blog/2008/02/21/on-the-internet-nobody-knows-you%e2%80%99re-a-dog/#comment-37 Matt Carey Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:31:10 +0000 http://www.rebeccacottrell.co.uk/blog/2008/02/21/on-the-internet-nobody-knows-you%e2%80%99re-a-dog/#comment-37 A couple of things you might want to read on this subject... http://bradfitz.com/social-graph-problem/ http://www.sixapart.com/about/news/2008/02/the_social_graph_api_and_surprises.html What Chris talks about will come, but it may take longer than we want. A couple of things you might want to read on this subject…

http://bradfitz.com/social-graph-problem/

http://www.sixapart.com/about/news/2008/02/the_social_graph_api_and_surprises.html

What Chris talks about will come, but it may take longer than we want.

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