Category Archives: Connect.Me

FounderDating Breaks the First Rule of Trust—I Will Never Use This Site

Posted on 1/18/2015 by Drummond Reed

True story: two weeks ago I received an email from an entrepreneur I know and respect (who will remain unnamed). It read as follows: Hi Drummond, I’ve just joined FounderDating (no, it’s NOT romantic) – a handpicked network of entrepreneurs connecting … Continue reading →

Posted in Connect.Me, Customer Service, Entrepreneurs, Reputation, Respect Trust Framework | Tagged | 6 Comments

Markus Sabadello’s XDI Personal Cloud Demo

Posted on 11/5/2012 by Drummond Reed

I sure wish I had more time to blog, but with about 110% of my time is going into building the Respect Network these days, most of my posts are on the Respect Network and Connect.Me blogs. But if you’ve been using this blog … Continue reading →

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Social, Local, Mobile, Personal

Posted on 7/28/2012 by Drummond Reed

“The gleam has come off the word ‘social’,” said Internet analyst Ben Schachter in today’s NYTimes article about the recent slide in the stock prices of Facebook, Zynga, and Groupon. “The ground is now shifting underneath these companies feet at a … Continue reading →

Posted in Connect.Me, Personal Cloud, Personal Data Ecosystem, Respect Network, Respect Trust Framework, Social Web | Tagged , , , | 1 Comment

My Five Key Takeaways from the Best IIW Yet

Posted on 5/24/2012 by Drummond Reed

I’ve done very few blog posts this year due to the speed at which I’ve been running with Connect.Me and Respect Network (more about that at the end of this post). But three weeks after it ended, I’m doing a … Continue reading →

Posted in Connect.Me, Identity Commons, Open Identity Exchange, OpenID, Personal Cloud, Personal Data Ecosystem, Respect Trust Framework, Social Web, XDI | 2 Comments

Drummond’s Ten for Trust – Round One

Posted on 3/1/2012 by Drummond Reed

Today marks the start of full Trust Anchor vouching on Connect.Me. This means Connect.Me users who have become Trust Anchors will have a lifetime allotment of 150 special vouches they can give to others as a special signal of trust … Continue reading →

Posted in Connect.Me, Respect Trust Framework, Trust Anchors | 1 Comment

Buzzumi + Twitter = World Wide Video Chat Service

Posted on 12/5/2011 by Drummond Reed

In the history of this blog I don’t think I’ve ever published a press release — from anyone. Why make an exception now? Because this isn’t an ordinary press release. I first met Dan Marovitz when we were speakers together … Continue reading →

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Connect.Me: One Month In

Posted on 11/15/2011 by Drummond Reed

Trust is a very delicate matter — especially online, where most if not all of the cues (location, appearance, diction, body language) we use to make trust decisions in the physical world are absent. To make matters worse, the rampant … Continue reading →

Posted in Connect.Me, General, Respect Trust Framework, Social Web | 1 Comment

Phil Windley on Personal Event Networks

Posted on 10/3/2011 by Drummond Reed

Phil Windley has a new post called Personal Event Networks: Building the Internet of Things. The idea is simple but highly compelling: what if the range of products and services you used could actually talk to each other, over the … Continue reading →

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The Height of Insidiousness

Posted on 10/2/2011 by Drummond Reed

On January 19 I did a short post titled I am so ready to get rid of these. It was about blog spammers winning the war against WordPress’s Akismet spam filter. What enraged me most is that if a comment … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Connect.Me, Spam | 1 Comment

Privacy is nuanced

Posted on 4/10/2011 by Drummond Reed

I saw Joe Andrieu at the Personal Data 2.0 Workshop this past week and he just did a post about privacy that makes a very important point: “public” and “private” are not black and white. They are highly nuanced and … Continue reading →

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The Connect.Me Blog

Posted on 3/16/2011 by Drummond Reed

With Connect.Me finally having a public-facing beta signup process, even though we’re otherwise still in stealth, we’ve started a Connect.Me blog to start explaining what Connect.Me the company is about. The first post explains our overall focus on personal data … Continue reading →

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Connect.Me

Posted on 3/9/2011 by Drummond Reed

The Incredible Internet Irony Machine strikes again. The stealth startup that’s been my singular focus since stepping down as Executive Director of Open Identity Exchange and the Information Card Foundation last fall, called Respect Network, took one tiny peek above … Continue reading →

Posted in Connect.Me, Data Portability, Dataweb, Identity Rights Agreements, Open Identity Exchange, Personal Cloud, Personal Data Ecosystem, Personal Data Server, Personal Data Service, Personal Data Store, Privacy, Reputation, Social CRM, Social Web, VRM | 16 Comments