Confusing Lists
10. September 2007 – 23:59 bySkipping through my feed subscriptions tonight I have stumbled across this Mashable article on managing online identities. Well, actually it’s one of the countless blog posts on Mashable all starting with 20+ Ways to…, 50+ Great…, 100+ Tools…. You’ll get the picture. Lists. Just lists. And rather often I have wondered if those lists were useful at all because usually services are described by just one or two sentences. Is anyone even getting a glimpse of what those services have to offer?
Anyway, this list on online identity is really confusing. There is an OpenID provider like myOpenID mentioned in the same context (=Online Identity Management) as a service like Garlik which is (among other features) providing information on house prices relating to people’s postal code and whatnot. And yes, it is a service for UK residents only which the Mashable list fails to mention.
Those services solve (or try to solve) very different tasks but are lumped together in just one category. How are readers supposed to make a decision on which service they should try. Yeah, they could try them all but would you have a look at all services if the first two or three were not what you were expecting?
2 Responses to “Confusing Lists”
yeah, those lists are most of the time pretty useless.
mostly brainless linkbaiting.
By marcel weiss on Sep 11, 2007
Hi,
Given your interest in emerging technology and security, I thought you might like to hear about a new online system that launched yesterday. Garlik, a UK company specialising in online identity, has launched the world’s first system to measure an individual’s digital status - it’s called QDOS. With QDOS, 45 million UK adults now have a unique online identity score (a score which tells them what they look like in the digital world so they can manage it).
All QDOS scores are available at http://www.qdos.com
Regards
Jeremy
By Jeremy Lloyd on Nov 30, 2007