DandyID Launches ClaimMyName

June 30, 2009

DandyID is excited to announce the release of ClaimMyName, a service that makes it easy for brand-conscious individuals and organizations to protect themselves by registering their custom URLs across hundreds of social networking and social media sites. To sign up and/or to watch a video demonstration please visit the following link: http://www.dandyid.org/beta/claimmyname.                

Also, please help us get the word out by using this link to tweet about the release.  

What follows is a little more background information on why we decided to launch ClaimMyName.

Over the past year DandyID has invested heavily in building a very rich set of free services that cater to our core user base; and we are now seeing the fruits of this labor pay off with higher than expected conversions into to our recently released Pro Accounts (http://www.dandyid.org/beta/upgrade). Our users can rest assured that we will continue to add value (and features) to both our free and pro services. Furthermore, our most popular features (such as social identity verification) will remain free for everyone.

However, we also learned something very important from the last year and from the release of our pro accounts: several brand-conscious professionals and corporations (i.e. not just hardcore social media enthusiasts) are signing up for and appropriating DandyID as a platform for their brand. The interesting thing about this demographic is that they already have established brands in their respective niche industries, and they are now being forced - for better or worse - into social media. 

These professionals and businesses recognize that social media is transferring the balance of “brand power” into the hands of consumers. Corporations no longer own their brands in the conventional sense, nor can they control them with traditional methods. Instead, they must become part of the conversation, which means that to stay relevant they must participate in social media. ClaimMyName is as paid service targeted toward brand-conscious individuals and organizations who seek to readily secure a platform that they can then use to join the social media conversation. 

In addition, ReadWriteWeb has a great post up about the service, as does LouisGray.com.

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DandyID Releases Facebook App

June 8, 2009
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dandyid-facebook-appWe are excited to announce that the much anticipated DandyID Facebook app is finally available. This app - along with the DandyID Wordpress Plugin and several other extensions - plays a key role in allowing you to share your complete verified identity within Facebook and across the web. The app displays a list of all your online profiles in the sidebar of your Facebook profile so that your friends can easily discover where else you exist online. All updates made via your DandyID account will be automatically synced with your Facebook profile in realtime (no need to refresh). In addition, if  you have a DandyID Pro Account then the Facebook app will also be stats enabled, allowing you track how your Facebook friends are engaging you online.

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Major Release: Pro Accounts & Identity Verification

June 4, 2009

DandyID is excited to announce two major product releases, Pro Accounts and Identity Verification: 

DandyID Pro Accounts are for users that really want to understand and increase the impact of their online identity. Pro users have access to key analytics that let you track how people are finding and engaging you online. As a Pro user you are also able to discover where your contacts exist online and which social networks are most important to them. In addition, SEO enhanced links help increase your visibility in top search engines by passing the “link juice” through to your individual profiles. Click here to view a full list of Pro Account features and upgrade.

Identity labyrinth download free  Verification is a free service that allows you to verify that you are the owner of your profile on several popular social networks, and then links your verified profiles together so that the real you can be easily discovered. If you’d like to learn more about this cool new feature check out our post on Identity Verification.

Coverage in the Blogosphere:

LouisGray.com has a great post up about these new products. In the post they refer to DandyID as “a LinkedIn of social media” and call our verification service “the VeriSign of Social media.” The post also goes into more detail about the individual Pro features. You may read the full post here: http://www.louisgray.com/live/2009/06/dandyid-provides-path-to-social.html.

In addition, you may want to check out Mashable’s mention of DandyID in the post titled “7 Technologies Shaping the Future of Social Media

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” or in the post titled “Five Ways to Share Your Social Media Identity“.

CenterNetworks and Social Nerdia also both have coverage of the release up on their blogs.

Help us get the word out about DandyID:

download material girls dvdrip We’d really appreciate it if you’d help us get the word about this release. Please feel free to blog about it and/or use this link to tweet this post.

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Identity Verification Launched

June 1, 2009

We’re excited to announce a new feature allowing DandyID users to verify ownership of their various profiles. 

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Utilizing the open authorization protocol OAuth, “FlickrAuth” and Facebook Connect, the initial six services available for verification are Twitter, Brightkite, MySpace, YouTube, Flickr, and Facebook - and we are continuing to add to this list.
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Share Your Identities in Squidoo

April 15, 2009

We’re happy to announce that the DandyID Squidoo Module is now live!squidoo

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To view this module in action, check out the Who Is Corey Brown red is the color of dvdrip download and Who Is Sara Czyzewicz lens. If you haven’t already, claim your own SquidWho page (”start a fanpage“), and follow the below instructions for adding the module.

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How to add the DandyID module:

(Note: you need a DandyID account before using the module; sign-up if you haven’t yet!) 

1 - Create a new Lens or SquidWho page

2 - Under “Workshop Tools” on the right, select Add Modules “Browse all modules”
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6 - hit “DONE ADDING!” 
7 - You’ll see the module “New DandyID” added to your page… click “EDIT”
8 -  Enter a title (ie: My Identities or Find Me on the Web)
9 - Enter the e-mail address you used to sign up for DandyID
10 - SAVE and you’re done!

The outcome looks something like this:
Example DandyID Module

Enjoy!

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Vote for DandyID in the Sun Startup Essentials Elevator Pitch Contest!

April 6, 2009

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The competition is fierce, and we’re up against some really cool startups, but with your help we can take home top prize.

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DandyID Partners with Barakhamba Biotech to Offer DNA Sequencing

March 31, 2009

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We’re thrilled to announce today that we’ve partnered with New Dehli, India-based biotechnology company Barakhamba Biotech to offer genotype sequencing to our customers.  For $199,  you will be able to purchase a “spit test” kit directly from your DandyID dashboard.   The kit contains a saliva swab, instructions, and discreet, postage-paid, padded mailer.  You simply collect a sample of your DNA by swabbing the inside of your cheek, place the sample in the included protective plastic tube, and drop it in the mail to be sent back to Barakhamba.  In 10 to 12 weeks DandyID will receive a digital representation of your DNA genotype, which will then be tied to your account.

Why are you doing this?

DandyID is committed to helping users truly own their online identities.  Unfortunately, even though the web is getting more social every day, it is still a largely impersonal medium.  Because of that, identity fraud is a major issue.  By offering a way for users to tie their social identities to their DNA code — something that can’t easily be faked! — we’re offering an added layer of verification. Your genetic markup acts as a unique fingerprint that securely and accurately verifies that your online identities really belong to you.

Why have you partnered with Barakhamba Biotech instead of a more well-known, US company like 23andMe?

Barakhamba Biotech is one of the world’s most advanced biotechnology firms.  Their labs operate at CLIA-level standards, and Barakhamba is the only non-US lab to receive approval from the US Department of Health and Human Services to provide genetic genotyping services for diagnostic use in American hospitals.  Many local crime labs at police departments around the United States also routinely outsource their DNA testing to Barakhamba Biotech.

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Because costs are lower in New Dehli than they are in the United States, we’re able to offer a world-class genetic analysis and identification service at a much lower cost.

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Though it won’t be in the in initial release, we have a number of amazing new features planned around your genetic information.  We’ll reveal these new features over the next couple of months, but here’s a taste: how about spot-on social network suggestions based on your unique genetic markers? how about being able to hook you up with new friends based on a never-before-available genetic matchmaking service?  The possibilities are truly endless!

Additionally, for an extra $99, Barakhamba can provide you with a range of additional information gleaned from your genetic code.  Learn about your ancestry, your predisposition to over 100 different genetic traits and diseases, and what sorts of things you may pass on to your children.

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That’s one of the most exciting parts of this entire announcement: in July, we’re planning to roll out a new version of our API that will include hooks into users’ DNA information!  That should enable exciting, never-before-possible genetic mashups.  Imagine getting truly personal recommendations based on something as infallible as your genetic code, or resting easy knowing that when making an online purchase, your identity has been verified securely by your own genetics!

Of course, allowing your genetic code to be made available via the DandyID API will be a strictly opt-in program.  Further, for our US-based users, the 2008 Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) prohibits discrimination by health insurance companies and employers based on genetic information, which makes sharing your genetic information via the DandyID API a safe and rewarding option.

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When will this be available?

We expect to launch this program on our site sometime in mid-May, with the API tie-in to launch a couple of months after that.  Keep an eye on this blog for further announcements regarding this exciting new parternship!

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DandyID As Your Online ID Card

March 25, 2009

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DandyID’s core value still lies in its ability to share your identity and profile information with authorized third parties (so that you can manage that information from one location), but it also acts a central collection point for all for all of your online identities and profile information. That means you can point people to your DandyID profile page in order to make sure they’re getting the picture of you that you want to put forth.

Since we added new methods of sharing your DandyID profile yesterday, we’ve seen a large number of users doing just that and tweeting about their DandyID profiles. One of our users has even added his DandyID profile URL to his business cards. Alexandre Setter, who is the owner of Brazilian communications firm Magica Comunicação, showed off his new business cards this afternoon via Twitter. It’s hard to see in the picture, but Alexandre’s new cards point users to his DandyID profile page (see the text on the orange part of the card in the photo below).

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We think that’s a very smart use of DandyID. Because DandyID helps you to truly own buy benemid your online identity, it can act as an official clearing house for the type of identity information you want to project to the world. So it’s a natural place to send people when they want to learn more about who you are and how to interact with you across the social web. If you have any creative uses of DandyID, we’d love to hear about them. Please contact us or let us know via Twitter @DandyID. augmentation breast durham zyprexa

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DandyID Profiles: Now Easier to Find and Share

March 24, 2009

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To make them easier to share, we’ve added a ShareThis mogambo dvdrip download

link to every profile page. ShareThis is a great widget that will allow you or those who visit your profile to share it over a large number of social bookmarking sites, via email, or on a blog with a single click. We’ve also added a “tweet about me” link, which loads up a ready-made tweet about your profile in Twitter, with links to both your DandyID profile and your Twitter user name. On Friday, the “tweet about me” link will automatically add the #FollowFriday hashtag (for more about Follow Friday, check out this Mashable post).

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We’ve also spent a bit of time this evening doing some basic search engine optimization work to our profile and tags pages in order to make user profiles more easily discovered. To that end, one of the most important things we did was create simplified vanity URLs, such as this one for DandyID co-founder Arron Kallenberg: http://www.dandyid.org/id/arronkallenberg.

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You can lock in your vanity URL by setting your user name on the edit user profile page. We’ve often talked about how DandyID solves the problem of online identity dispersion by collecting together all of your social profiles. Another problem created by online identity dispersion is lack of identity ownership. Owning your online identity — so that when people try to find you online they find the real, verifiable you — is a difficult problem. DandyID can help with that, as well, and locking in your user name in order to get the SEO benefits of a named URL is an important step in how we can help you do it.

The new user name URL schema is also helpful for figuring out where users exist on other web sites, because now you can ask DandyID to send you directly to a specific social profile for any user as long as you know that user’s name. For example: http://www.dandyid.org/id/arronkallenberg/twitter.

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DandyID Profiles Now More Organized, Extendable

March 24, 2009

We’ve redesigned DandyID’s profile pages in order to make them more organized, easier to read, and to better support the growing list of services that our identity graph platform supports.  Because any one of our users can theoretically have over 300 accounts to display, organization becomes very important or else the profile page ends up too overwhelming to be a useful source of user information.

We’ve also added a bunch of new data fields and made the profile pages extendable. That adds to the amount of information we need to display (another reason for the redesign), but also makes the pages more useful.  Just like how in the online world you don’t exist in any one place, your offline life isn’t static either.  Many people have more than one address, phone number, job, or screen name.  Our new extendable profiles reflect that by allowing you to add multiple data points to most profile fields. celebrex allergic reaction

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