Identity Verification Launched
June 1, 2009
We’re excited to announce a new feature allowing DandyID users to verify ownership of their various profiles.
This is an important step, offering an additional layer of trust for our users. Verified services will be distinctly displayed in public DandyID profiles, and also noted in our API to notify third-parties and extensions. Shortly after this release, verifying a service will additionally disallow another user to “claim” the same identifier.
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.
[...] DandyID is excited to announce two major product releases this week, Identity Verification and Pro Accounts: Identity 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. [...]
This is a great idea, thank you for organizing it.
DandyID is an awesome service… I did try adding a few more social networks to my account, hope they reflect soon.. the JS widgets for adding to blogs are also fantastic. Check out the DandyID widget on my site!
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