Business models around reputation

See, Doc Searles' article in Linux Journal Dec. 2002
"Linux for Suits Identity as Business Opportunity? by Doc Searls "


It's not online.  Oh gosh no.  Not on the main site at least,
  http://www.linuxjournal.com/ or anywhere I could see in
Doc's blog  http://doc.weblogs.com/    But found an abundance
of other great stuff, as usual.

"here are 8 cool way this can be put to use.. businesses have taken an 
interest in building out an ID infrastructure  1) identity service 
providers i.e. identity hosting services.. ...2) identity 
verification/authentication svcs ...3) identity guardian/protection 
services 4) identity interop svcs (transport identity between disparate 
systems) ..." etc.etc. 4 more...

Andres blog is http://www.andredurand.com/
DigitalId world is at http://www.digitalidworld.com/
and the PingID site is http://www.pingid.com/

These are notable and worth reading.

Todd www.gldialtone.com