My Digital FootPrint

The Facebook ad just recommended I look at http://www.search.mylife.com - so I copied the domain and did..... So here is a service that promises to tell you about what the web knows about you or who is searching for you, but it needs you to tell it who you are so it can tell you what you told it back - and you get to pay for it as well. Not the best Digital Footprint service I have uncovered.

I was one of the judges at the 2011 Innotribe $100K Start-up Challenge (designed to introduce the most promising FinTech and Financial Services start-ups to SWIFT’s community) and also I was asked to mentor GuardTime ( www.guardtime.com ), creator of the Keyless Signature technology providing indisputable proof of time, origin, and integrity for electronic data. Delighted that they won !  They were selected from over 100 applicants; this year’s judges awarded the prize to two winners, each receiving $50,000. The other winning company announced is Truaxis (formerly BillShrink), for its StatementRewards application that creates data-driven personalized services for financial institutions, merchants and consumers.  “We’re thrilled to be recognized by the financial services industry for innovation that creates indisputable and mathematically-sound audit trails for all electronic data, making it ideal for applications such as Internet banking, mobile payments, digital log forensics and

https://www.worldwithoutme.com/ WorldWithoutMe.com is currently running Invite Only Beta and purports to be a platform that gives tools to Live Digitally Forever. Start and participate in Private Discussions, Create Dispatches for future, Store Digital Assets and Archive Digital Footprint (Facebook updates, Tweets, Documents, Emails) to create an Autobiography on the go at World Without Me. This is topic we come round to a lot here, what happens when you die and the same questions/ observations come up every time….. anyway I’ll send them to the founder Bhaskar Thakur (Pune, India) and see what he has to say.    Short video   ; 

Dachis Group has launched a Social Business Index (real-time ranking, analysis, and benchmarking of Social Business adoption and performance) and measures the social performance of the world's most engaged companies, their subsidiaries, and their brands by analyzing hundreds of millions of signals globally from customers, employees, partners, influencers, and the marketplace in real time across the Social Business graph.

Looking at visibility reports http://www.vrank.com/ and in their judgement for something that is not specified I am doing quite well – and when I do everything someone else will come along with a new algorithm and will rate everything differently. Probably tired and cynical

Congratulations to Andre Durand and his team as Ping fuels growth with $21 million in financing from Triangle Peak Partners and Silicon Valley Bank and follow on from General Catalyst Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Volition Capital, Appian Ventures and SAP Ventures. A reward for a focus on identity federation, standards and the business of identity . Their vision is to enable one secure identity, integrated across millions of systems.

Topsy delivers realtime search powered by the social web that finds the most relevant conversations happening online has now indexed over 5 billion tweets and 2.5 billion links. Topsy provides the “influential” search results ranked by millions of people. By searching links, tweets and other user generated content, Topsy brings you the freshest, most valuable content on the social web. Topsy is backed by BlueRun Ventures, Ignition Partners, Founders Fund and Scott Banister.

Nick Halstead CEO and founder of DataSift has raised $6 Million Dollar round from GRP Partners and IA Ventures. Mark Suster  and  Roger Ehrenberg  have joined the board. DataSift provides very granular and modular ‘sifting’ functions from a wide range of social and web input feeds, augmenting them with sentiment analysis, storage and analytics to offer an unrivalled service platform which leverages the cloud and scales infinitely. The world is moving to streams, and consumers will consume and curate their own news. DataSift follows this paradigm shift and seeks to become the platform of choice for stream curation, consumption, and ultimately monetization. The end visualizations are unlimited and bounded only by your imagination. Their ambition in life is to: build the best platforms for developers, publishers, brands, and agencies. unlock the power and data of social media. do so in a fun and exciting way.

http://personaldataecosystem.org/startup/ Azigo. Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts Your data defines you. Own it. “We’re a happy band of developers, designers and entrepreneurs dedicated to the idea that the more control you have over your own data the more compelling your online experience will be, and the more privacy you will enjoy. Although the data wallet app is new and yet to launch, it stands on a technology platform that has evolved over several years by building solutions for PayPal, Google, Mydex, IBM, Equifax, Acxiom, BBB.org, and others.”   Private beta signup. Paul Trevithick, CEO. Blog post:   Why must a personal data ecosystem emerge? Buyosphere .   Montreal, QC, Canada “Buyosphere is a tool to help you take control of your shopping history: organize it, share it and track how you influence others. Our aim is to turn around consumer culture so that customers have more control over their own data. We have a pretty good inkling that this data will become more and more valu

Online influence measurement is a nascent body of work and tends to focus on identifying "influencers"   Klout who has introduced a new feature they call "+K"   think Google “+1” or Facebook’s “like” button for influence.  At a random guess someone at Klout has realised that any measure of Influence is meaningless without context [what ever that it] but there is a need to establish a link between people, organizations, expertise and subjects. However the output (some determination of Influence) is only as good as the input and the algorithm, which itself needs to determine what is more valuable…. “who influences me or who/ how many do I influence?”   worth reading  From Any to Many: The Collective Influence    http://blog.peoplebrowsr.com/blog/?p=1054

LinkedIn has  launched  the LinkedIn Connection Timeline and provides a way to remember people you used to work with throughout the years and see where they are now – how some have changed. The visualization illustrates “the tip of an iceberg” of structured social data could provide when accessible. The obvious next step is for other social graphs that show the timeline of who I connected to, when and the levels of interaction (rather link XOBNI + Memolane) Is there a model?  Brand, loyalty, discussion, marketing, viral, value – probably!

    For the past year Simon and I have been growing, under the banner of   mashup* ,   Ignite  in partnership with  Avanta .  The vision was to provide a space where early stage, high growth, companies can start, grow, meet and collaborate - accelerating the rate of their innovation and connecting with critical delivery and implementation skills.  So far fruit includes  InDigital ,  Start-up Intelligence ,  Bluefield  and  OOsocial . Whilst doing this I have also been part of the founding team to start-up a much bigger open collaborate/ co-creation space called  IW  (working with the  City of London Corporation ) and we opened the doors today! There is now 10,000 sq foot of digital incubation space in the  Smithfield .   IW is a shared, semi-open plan office space designed for growing companies in a vibrant atmosphere. We aim to attract dynamic young businesses who want to grow fast.  IW is not an exclusive club and is open to those who are prepared to stand up and justify why they wil

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It has been widely reported that Disney has paid more than $3 million to make US regulators go away after it was revealed several sites once operated by its Playdom games division illegally collected and disclosed personal information from thousands of children.  Disney is probably not at fault since they bought Playdom last year and the abuses seem to have been committed prior to the $563 million (August  2010). According to the  LA Times , the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) claimed that several Disney sites, including an online virtual world called Pony Stars, illegally collected and disclosed personal information. More than 821,000 children kiddies registered with Pony Stars from 2006 to 2010 and 403,000 children provided their information to some of the 19 other virtual worlds operated by Playdom, including 2 Moons, 9 Dragons and My Diva Doll. Playdom's sites harvested children's ages and email addresses during the registration process and allowed them to publicly post

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Just meet The Locker Project at iiw  http://blog.lockerproject.org/# Takes your data and puts it in one place