Imagine that you are applying for a job. You know that your prospective employer is going to search for your name online, and since you're a rational person, that worries you. How will your employer know what online stuff is actually about you, and not about that other person who shares your name? And what if the good stuff about you online doesn't mention your full name, or uses a name you no longer go by (such as a maiden name)? How would your prospective employer ever find it? Why do you have to lose out in the eyes of that employer? And the worst part is there's no way for you to easily influence what search engines say about you.So, should be treat it as an online C.V.? That isn't such a bad idea in that links about you are kept separate from personal links - your future employer or the Nobel committee won't see all your links to porn and gambling sites.
What would make it better? The ability to automatically pull up information posted on the internet about you during a time frame.
Say that when a users sets up ClaimId for the first time, they search and identify those weblinks about themselves. Then, everytime a user logs on, the application automatically calls up the same search(es) to find information that occurred after your last logon - how cool would that be? Kind of a mashup between ClaimId and CopySentry, but on your identity.
» ClaimID's Creators Respond from DoRealTime
Earlier today I wrote about ClaimId and co-creator Fred Stutzman was kind enough to respond:Thanks for the mention. I agree that your idea has a lot of value - but we do tend to believe that humans are better sorters... [Read More]
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