Ryan gave me the drop on this presentation by Dave Chiu and Didier Hilhorst where they do an amusingly effective job of explaining the concept of reputation management. It all went down at the conclusion of the Applied Dreams 2.2 project at Interaction Design Institute Ivrea in Milano.
The project brief begins:
Our identities are changing due [...]

Posted May 8, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: applied dreams 2.2, Dave Chiu, Didier Hilhorst, identity, identity management, idm, presentation, RentAThing, reputation, reputation management. Be the first one.

Troy expressed both great amusement and trepidation in his message alerting me to Riya, a new photo sharing site:

I don’t know whether to say cool, or zool.

The tour explains that you upload photos, Riya identifies faces in your photos, then asks you to name them (or correct its guesses!). Then you get all your friends to join up and we can all search for everybody by people, location, and time. So say “hi” to Andrejs and Nora.

Posted March 22, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Photoblog, Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: anonymity, brave new world, face, face recognition, facial recognition, fear, identity, identity is reputation, idm, photo sharing, privacy, recognition, reputation, riya, six degrees, social software, spy, spying, Spytech, surveillance, tracking, zool. 4 Comments.