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Entries in Identity (17)

What Comes After Web Sites and Online Social Networks?

Today we use the web in many ways. Traditional web sites — “places we go” on the web to do things — still exist. But increasingly, web based transactions also depend on the nature of our online relationships with other people.

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Who Benefits from Public Ambivalence About Online Privacy?

Even if it’s true that most people don’t really care about online privacy, things will change when the mainstream media start publicizing cases of pain and loss where credible or sympathetic individuals (e.g., young, attractive, or sympathetic families) get “bitten” by misuse of personal data sourced online.

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Posted on Monday, December 17, 2007 at 01:26PM by Registered CommenterDennis D. McDonald in , , , , | Comments1 Comment

What Are You Going To Do About Your Own Web Data?

One of the benefits of the Facebook Beacon affair is that it has made many more people aware of the open nature with which so much data is exchanged on the Internet and the World Wide Web.

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Google OpenSocial, Collaboration, and Expertise Location

The most interesting statement Forrester’s Charlene Li makes in Google OpenSocial will (hopefully) make social apps more relevant is this:

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Apple, iPods, and Personal Data Portability

I've been busy lately. My blogging has suffered. I've tried to update my blog's "daily notes" (located on my home page and archived here) but that's about it. I'm working offline on some longer white papers, I'm starting a new client project next week, I've been involved in a non-stop series of proposals and statements of work, and I've had to keep my plants watered during the drought here on the U.S. East Coast. Meanwhile, there are some really interesting "tech" things going on.

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On Developing a Personal Online Networking Strategy

Would you benefit from having a personal online networking strategy? A "personal online networking strategy" is a coherent view of how you use various media for communicating and managing relationships with other individuals and groups. Such a strategy should address:

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Posted on Tuesday, August 28, 2007 at 04:41AM by Registered CommenterDennis D. McDonald in , , , , , , | Comments1 Comment

Why I Changed the Name of My Blog

I've changed the name of my blog from "All Kind Food" to "Dennis McDonald's Blog." This has not required the change in any URL's so all my existing links and feed addresses remain the same (I think).

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Posted on Friday, August 17, 2007 at 08:23AM by Registered CommenterDennis D. McDonald in , , | Comments3 Comments

More Thoughts on Developing a Social Network "Portable Relationship Map" Standard

A couple of days ago I posted Do We Need “Portable Relationship Maps” for Social Networks? There I expressed some skepticism about the feasibility of developing a standard for mapping social and professional relationships, over and above basic personal description or identity data, that could be portable between social networking systems.

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Do We Need "Portable Relationship Maps" for Social Networks?

In Yet another reason why we need a single, trusted, and protected identity system Jeremiah Owyang voices the common complaint about social networks. At one point he writes:

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A Map of My Online Networking Tools: Part 2

In A Map of My Online Networking Tools: Part 1 I described the use of the MindMeister, a "mind mapping" tool, to display an organized list of the sites I use in relation to personal and professional networking.A different type of tool for mapping relationships that I have written about before is Kartoo. Kartoo displays relationships among web sites based on links and concept groupings.

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