It’s amazing how your identity gets spread thinly across the whole Internet! I’ve just be collating all the web sites that I belong to and all the chat clients that I’m connected to, and it can be a bit overwhelming to keep everything up to date. Does anyone know of some web service to notify all your different sites when you change your address, for example?
Is it possible to have a coherent web identity? In fact, I would probably like three or four different web identities – a public one, a work one and one for friends and family. I guess this is just the nature of the Internet. It is by definition decentralised, and there is no reason for each of your web services to know about the others, let alone communicate and consolidate together. It does seem, however, that interoperability is one of the current pushes in Internet services.
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