Gnomedex 8.0 - Eve Maler - The Care and Feeding of Online Relationships

eve.maler@sun.com, www.xmlgrrl.com/blog
human to online application relationships, not human to human like match.com.

We we buy stuff online we fork over private information to get the stuff. This is the real price we're paying. This information is used for digital identity management. This includes identification, authorization, personalization. It is also used in online social networking. This includes connectedness, and collaboration. both of these use differentiated application behavior based on permissioned data sharing.

The social networking world does not put a premium on privacy.

Eve asks, are we giving too much information?

Vendor Relationship Management, how you as a customer can manage all the vendors in your life. (Doc Searls is the guy who came up with this notion.) projectVRM.org.

logging in just to update your profile is (largely) bogus

Those are problems. Here are some solutions examples: calendaring
She's in a band call Mud Junket

She uses Calgoo.com to publish her shared calendars. This is related to "Feeds-based VRM"

othe VRMish behavior in the wild: user-driven data services (health, location, payment, etc.)

"r-card" info cards - data sharing relationships

So there is an architecture out there that can keep your information private and separate from all the different partners (store, shipper, payment service, interaction service, etc.)

Where does OpenId fit in? (she is openid.sun.com/xmlgrrl/)

It is good for logging in (but so could anyother federated ID and even silo'd IDs!)