My second attempt in creating categories in the concepts of virtual identity.

Identity 2.0

A word to indicate the difference between the old identification process and the upcoming new one, check wikipedia for more details. Examples of Identity 2.0 are

Sxip

Sxip are the builders of an identification protocol for access to multiple services, or in their words:

the Simple, eXtensible Identity Protocol is the power behind Identity 2.0. SXIP is a simple mechanism that gives users control over their online identities and provides websites with the ability to construct rich user-centric relationships.

ToWatch: OSCON 2005 Keynote - Identity 2.0
ToRead:, Digital ID: How are you managing?, The semantic web, digital identity, and Internet governance
Weblogs: Identity 2.0

Microsoft Identity Metasystem:

The Identity Metasystem is an interoperable architecture for digital identity that assumes people will have several digital identities based on multiple underlying technologies, implementations, and providers. Using this approach, customers will be able to continue to use their existing identity infrastructure investments, choose the identity technology that works best for them, and more easily migrate from old technologies to new technologies without sacrificing interoperability with others.

Blogs Identityblog
ToRead laws of (online) identity

More information about different identity protocols
tiara.org » Identity 2.0 Bibliography
Pushing String » The long identity tail

Reputation

EBay Feedback

The Feedback Forum is the place to learn about your trading partners, view their reputations, and express your opinions by leaving feedback on your transactions. Such member-to-member comments help the millions of buyers and sellers in the community build trust and share their trading experiences with others.

ToRead:
The Value of Reputation on eBay: A Controlled Experiment
Reputation Systems

Slashdots Karma

Slashdot has created a way to give more experienced users more control

Score is displayed next to each comment. Additionally, any user may set a personal preference to exclude the display of comments with low scores. Users acquire “karma” based, among other things, on the scores of their comments, and karma affects a user’s powers. Almost any user may become a moderator, although this status is temporary; thus the average user is not able to vote on any comment. Once a moderator uses up his votes, he returns to the status of ordinary user. source: Reputation management

Preople Rank

Preople.com The Preople Rank is based on how many times your name is mentioned online, a good way in testing your online brand (I still score very low at 169)

Identity connection

Thanks to all the web2.0 tools like flickr, del.icio.us, lastfm, wordpress and myspace it’s getting easier and easier the question arises how does one tie them together.

Opinity

Opinity belongs also in the reputation category, has some build in extra glue to put flickr, myspace, del.icio.us etc. on one page. Is has a build in check to prove you are the owner (or at least have the passwords) of those identities. Thanks to the possibility to show your personal flickr and del.icio.us feeds you could say its a user-friendly version of the personal portals some technical wizards have build. I think that if they keep on building, and add more websites and communities to verify with, it would be a great help to create a stable online identity. Check my personal profile here.

ToRead:
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
You Are What You Post

ClaimID

ClaimID Looks a bit like Opinity but has not the possibility to have proven or unproven ID’s And thereby claimID doesn’t give you a real proof of who you are, But proof is not where it’s about on ClaimID. It’s more as an easy way of making your own personal portal into your online world. One of the advantages the claim is that you have to option to give your vision on perhaps negative articles published about you on the internet. It’s a way to talk back if your future boss googles you on internet. (my claim id)

ToRead:
Identity and the Web: Information Science Must Pay Attention
claimID Best Practices

Gravatar

Gravatar Is a wordpress plug-in that checks the email address you use in your comments with the gravatar database and returns (if it’s exists) the linked image. The gravatar gives you a feeling of being one and the same person in different places on the web. And is a simple answers on the problem of the (feeling of a) fragmented identity.

ToWorkOn

Still have to check out these site, expect an update later.
iKarma and Superglu

Personal Portals

A do it yourself approach: You can tweak wordpress (or other weblogs) with plugins that pull in the rss feeds from your other web2.0 accounts (like flickr, del.icio.us and last.fm)

shauninman.com/plete/ A great way of putting as much information as possible in a delighted way

mattbrett.com/ The first blog where I really noticed it. Having flickr photos, music, portfolio-items, posts, comments, quick links and much more, all on one page.

http://veerle.duoh.com/ beautifully designed start page

Other examples
jaredigital.com/
lisamcmillan.com/journal/

Further reading

Interesting WikiPages on this subject :Online identity, Digital identity and Reputation management.

This post was created out of other posts on my weblog:

Categories of Virtual Identity
Identity (Virtual and Technical)
Identity summary
The Personal Portal