Digital Identity and its problems

Internetical Baboon — Fri, 04 May 2007 15:38:18 +0000

Here is a picture created by F. Cavazza on digital identity on the Internet.

When you go to a site, you’re obliged to register and leave a lot of personal information: for ex., you can leave your name, your address, your email, your credit card number, etc, on a lot of different sites.

If you are a blogger, and recognized by the blogging community as a good one, you are a kind of authority on your topic. But if your email address is hacked, another person can take your identity on the Internet.

This is the problem Internet users face: they need to master their identity on the Internet.

The solution is, of course, to be vigilant. But everything lays on trust.

A French blogger has created a company ‘The Todeka Project’ and will make virtual identity something users will be able to control. I do not know all the details now because the site is still being created. It will certainly be in Beta Testing between June and September. I will write another post on it at this time.

British PM Anthony Blair on the Net

Internetical Baboon — Thu, 03 May 2007 05:13:14 +0000

For the first time, a current Prime Minister has answered questions about his action for 10 years.

Twitter

Internetical Baboon — Wed, 02 May 2007 21:04:21 +0000

Twitter is a nice tool on the Internet. Once you’re registered, you can answer as many times a day as you want to a unique question: ‘what are you doing?’. Of course, it’s a nice way of keeping in touch with your blog’s readers.

I’ve got another blog on typepad, and it took me at least half an hour to create a Twitter account and to upload the badge on Typepad. And I’m an user of Typepad for almost a year now…. So I promise, I’ll upload the same Twitter badge on this blog, but when I’ve got time. Because I guess I will be stuck for longer on wordpress….

What is virtual identity?

Internetical Baboon — Tue, 01 May 2007 15:17:00 +0000

I found this picture on the Internet. It’s a good summary of how we interact in the different social networks and how it constitutes our identity on the Net.

As for me, I don’t participate in ‘Real Virtual Life’, but apart from that, I’ve used at least one of all the others. For example, I’m a regular user of del.icio.us, I upload photos on Flickr, I belong to LinkedIn, and so on.

I guess I’m a real Internetical Baboon )

My first post

Internetical Baboon — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:08:39 +0000

Well, where to start? I haven’t much to say right now….
That’s the first time I use wordpress.com to blog, so it’s gonna be hard for a few weeks. Hopefully, I’ll get better at it very soon.

The goal of this blog is to share what I like on the Internet, and some of my reactions of business current events.

My first real post should arrive soon…. tonight or tomorrow….