So, it seems we were onto something with claimID. Just not quite at the scale we needed back in 2005.
Today, Google launched “Me on the Web” as part of their Google Dashboard.
However, your online identity is determined not only by what you post, but also by what others post about you — whether a mention in a blog post, a photo tag or a reply to a public status update. When someone searches for your name on a search engine like Google, the results that appear are a combination of information you’ve posted and information published by others.
Today we’ve released a new tool to help make it easier to monitor your identity on the web and to provide easy access to resources describing ways to control what information is on the web. This tool, Me on the Web, appears as a section of the Google Dashboard right beneath the Account details.
found via http://mashable.com/2011/06/16/google-me-on-the-web/
The idea that reputation matters and will become both more important and transparent are coming of age. Very soon, we’ll start needing better tools to vet the opinions that are being tracked and surfaced across the web.
Now, if only I could publish this dissertation…