Comments on: inames: Your Portable Identity

By: Richard Rodger

Richard Rodger — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 09:59:14 +0000

Paul is right – the killer app is IM. Buddy lists are the next big thing. How you hook it all up is the problem that has to be solved and I don't yet see how inames will do it.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 08:51:33 +0000

inames and Identity…

Alec Saunders, writes in his blog about a universal identification system that is being worked on named inames. He writes: Whatâ€™s an iname? Itâ€™s a human friendly handle (mine is =alec.saunders) for a person or organization that you can use……

By: Paul Jardine

Paul Jardine — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 07:23:21 +0000

the 2idi.com site registering i-names is doing so at $20 a shot, I could get a domain name for a couple of years for that!
myopenid is free, but I'm not really convinced it will be successful unless it gets accepted by something like Jabber, MySpace, or Skype or another big IM tool. Unlikely…

By: Vijay

Vijay — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 04:48:05 +0000

Pretty interesting. I am wondering how it will differentiate between similar names. But, its definitely a step in the right direction. Certainly seems like it.

By: Alec

Alec — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 11:08:02 +0000

inames is an application built on OpenID, Boris.

By: Boris Mann

Boris Mann — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 10:59:16 +0000

How many =joe.smiths are there?

I like URL-based identity schemes like OpenID or SXIP better. I don't think putting an equal sign in front of something necessarily makes it easy. It works today with WordPress and many other systems — try http://www.myopenid.com, http://www.claimid.com, or install a plugin.