At the Internet Governance Forum in Sharm El Sheikh this week, there was a conversation on social networking data. Someone made the point that there are several different types of data, and it would be useful to separate them. This is my taxonomy of social networking data.

A data protection specialist claims that users can gain control of their browsing history and have it protected by the UK’s Data Protection Act just by contacting companies such as Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft and telling them their identities.

While the information about me on the Web is not terribly exciting, I do leave a little bit of information on every site I visit. And therein lies the rub. Say something in passing on a social site and it may come back to haunt you.

As part of the new brand identity of the Dutch government Peter Verheul designed a custom typeface for all forms of visual communications.

Shelf will look at the current foreground application, and try to figure out if what you’re looking at corresponds to a person in your Address Book. Then it’ll tell you things about them.

„De politiek steekt de kop in het zand voor de verregaande implicaties” van identiteitsmanagement, waarschuwde hoogleraar recht en informatisering Corien Prins vorig jaar in het Nederlands Juristenblad. Zo is een centraal systeem als het BSN extra kwetsbaar voor fouten, of fraude, die zich razendsnel verspreiden terwijl niemand zich verantwoordelijk voelt.

Social networks are becoming more open, more interconnected, and more distributed. Many of us in the web creation world are embracing and promoting web standards - both client-side and server-side. Microformats, standard apis, and open-source software are

George explains how the Flickr community started, and how the users shaped the Flickr web platform in more ways than the site itself shaped the user interaction.

An open protocol to allow secure API authentication in a simple and standard method from desktop and web applications.

phpMyID is a standalone, single user, OpenID Identity Provider.

Standardized Data Portability is the next great frontier for the web. As users, our identity, photos, videos and other forms of personal data should be discoverable by, and shared between our chosen tools or vendors. We need a DHCP for Identity. A distrib

hCard is a simple, open, distributed format for representing people, companies, organizations, and places, using a 1:1 representation of vCard (RFC 2426) properties and values in semantic XHTML. hCard is one of several open microformat standards suitable

One of several user-interface ideas and suggestions for working with microformats.

Online advertising is a revolution for marketers, who now can take advantage of previously unavailable data about readers' online behaviors and preferences to send commercial messages to individuals rather than to broad demographic groups. [..]

How to use your own URL as an OpenID without running your own OpenID server.

Sxipper is a free plug-in for Firefox that lets you log into any website with a single click. Sxipper saves you time by keeping track of all of your user IDs, passwords, and the personal data you share every day over the web. Sxipper logs you in securely