Humanizing Online Reputation: Connect.Me http://su.pr/2YsT4s
by @OsakaSaul on November 23, 2011
After learning from @DrummondReed, Chairman and a co-founder of @ConnectMe that the trust and reputation-building network his team is creating (currently in private beta) is just about to rein in the mass-messaging that got my goat, I further was treated to a one-on-one tour of where he and his colleagues are on issues of trust and online reputation scoring. If he achieved nothing else, Drummond certainly made a fan of me. I immediately regretted Scooping… with…
135 views so far – in just one of my ScoopIt magazines: “Blog Promotion”
The Blog Promotion Scoopit
Frankly, I initially took exception to the flurry of messages, in LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter that I received recently. My reaction, shared on my blog in “Connect.me Cons Me” http://ping.fm/vStSa was woefully misguided. (I suggest a look at the comments on that article.) In fact, co-founders of Connect.Me addressed trust issues that I had with their network.
Connect.Me Partners’ Reactions
“Saul, you are right about several areas where we need to improve. We have added more controls and limits on vouch notifications — in fact you can turn notifications off on your Settings page. We are also adding more information about how to use Connect.Me — this will get easier as we add more features for using your reputation card. And your last point – about how to make it easier and faster to vouch for specific skills across a group of contacts – is one we are especially focused on.“
- Drummond Reed
“Our goal is to build a p2p reputation system that users can trust and keeps them in complete control. We have been doing a lot of work behind the scenes in the identity and privacy circles to get this done with a high degree of credibility…”
- Marc Coluccio
I was soon speaking with Drummond, and what I learned, I took to Quora and ensured that my Quora Post would be seen, by adding it to one of my ScoopIt magazines. Below, I show how it is just as easy to recommend one’s segment (my Quora post, in this case) to be syndicated by a friend’s ScoopIt, when you use the ScoopIt bookmarklet:
Recommending my ScoopIt segment on Connect.Me
I wanted to be sure to get featured in “Beta News,” and so I submitted my Quora post:
Recommend a ScoopIt to be ReScooped
Recommending my Connect.Me Quora Post Scoop to be re-scooped in someone else’s ScoopIt
Along with being rescooped by a couple other ScoopIt Magazines, getting picked up by KT-Online was a pleasant surprise (and led me to research Anita Hamilton) …
My Quora Post on Connect.Me: Humanizing Online Reputation
My email inbox had a slew of notifications showing that a number of people I asked (and a few I didn’t) rescooped the Quora post on Connect.Me
Connect.Me VS Klout & Peer Index - Rescooped
Many must be intrigued to learn – and share – how Connect.Me stands up to Klout
I can’t say I minded my piece getting picked up by the “SOCIAL MEDIA, what we think about!” ScoopIt (2 days after the publishing of my Quora post), since with 6,100 views, Martin Gysler is putting my own Blog Promotion ScoopIt to shame! (I must learn how he gets those… MORE networking to do!)
I am thoroughly convinced that Connect.Me will obliterate Klout as well as PeerIndex and possibly Kred as well. Connect.Me aims to humanize reputation scoring. Clout from our peers, with incredible transparency. Further, how the issue of trust is regarded, as Connect.Me is still being crafted, this is what wins you over.
The vouches are only the beginning. We are going to see stats per specialty/general public and by specialty/within our connections, and we will thus know who the ‘go-to’ person is, whether we want to fish within our own pond or worldwide (as we can by using LinkedIn Skills), and we will have this from Connect.Me.
Of course, in Connect.Me, we are able to declare our own specialties, prioritize (to increase the likelihood of being vouched for on those subjects, I am thinking) and at any time, order them and also edit them. Here’s me, current to 11/16/2011:
Saul Fleischman Trust Profile in Connect.Me
The Saul Fleischman Trust Profile in Connect.Me: shows just the main six specialties I would like to be vouched for, in the order I want them: CM helps me be know for these.
Many have vouched for me on several topics were set; those you see in the image above are the ones I want to appear in my mini-profile – those I would most appreciate vouches for.
Where is Klout with self-declared topics?
Klout and PeerIndex Losing Ground to Connect.Me
Klout and PeerIndex Losing Ground to Connect.Me
As of this writing, it is a Klout ‘Perk’ to receive early access to be able to declare our own specialties/topics (termed ‘Topics’ in Klout).
In fact, as for where the Connect.Me founders are coming from in the realm of reputation and trust, a must-read is the one-page summary of the ‘Respect Trust Framework‘ published by the non-profit Open Identity Exchange:
http://ping.fm/Mok3l
Connect.Me publishes it’s own mini-summary at http://ping.fm/3imxu In my session with Drummond, he explained:
“The big difference here is the Respect Promise — everyone who joins the network promises to respect the right of every other member to control their identity and data. This is a revolutionary new approach to protection of personal data and relationships online, with which we worked with some of the top digital identity and trust experts worldwide — enough so that it won the Privacy Award at this year’s European Identity Conference in Munich last May.”
Drummond suggested a short PDF called Building Lasting Trust on the Connect.Me blog that explains the four trust levels members progress through as they gve and receive vouches. It also explains the special role of what are called “trust anchors” — a topic so important enough that he volunteered to do a guest blog post explaining more about it next week.
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osakabentures.com/2011/11/connect-me-cons-me/
Thanks for the vouch. Did you look at the platform on which you are recommending me?
Or did you do it on BranchOut, Talent.me or Connect.me – simply because they lead you to do it, and make it a seconds-per-rope-in-each-friend operation, rather than, say, a LinkedIn recommendation which should require much more thought…?
Talent.me: just 3 clicks per friend to “endorse“
(and perhaps that’s not a good thing)
Hey, Apps, leave my friends alone!
Scam applications may tell you that you can find out who your top 10 stalkers are on Facebook and how many hours you’ve spent on Twitter. The intention is to gain access to your social networking account, so that internet marketers can the can spread their links virally, and drive traffic to their money-making schemes. Via you.
You would think people would be wary of allowing a third-party app, which doesn’t explain its intentions and doesn’t explain who’s behind it, from gaining access to their Facebook or Twitter account. (Credit: Graham Cluley – Connect.me sign-up rush exposes risky behaviour of social networkers )
But that’s exactly what hoards of people seem to be doing right now with Connect.me.
They got me!
Connect.me spam invites
Connect.me suggested I vouch for people, and I did. It never told me they'd LinkedIn message them, though.
Wont you vouch for your friends? Well, why wouldn’t you? As you can see from the screenshot to the left, right out of my LinkedIn “sent messages” tab, though Connect.me did not tell me that they would inform those I recommended via a LinkedIn message – that’s just what they did.
Just as I recently cried foul in regards to Facebook group invites (group inflictions, I called them, since you don’t actually invite to groups in Facebook – but force people into them), and contrasted with LinkedIn group invites, sites need to get called out for using our application authorization – to spam our friends.
If you follow the link and reserve your connect.me name, you are led to link the connect.me site with your Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn account. You are reading the blog of the sucker who went fell for the LinkedIn connection route. In my own defense, similar to Branchout, and CommonRed, I expected this “professional networking site” to draw profile data from LinkedIn to flesh out my profile.
What’s more, several close friends of mine had “vouched for me” – and I had a slew of Twiter DMs, emails, and Facebook messages backed up, all informing me that so-and-so had vouched for me “to get me early access to Connect.me.” How could I go wrong…? I wanted that early access, right, and if they thought it was a thing to dive into…? And I did like those warm DMs, Facebook messages and LinkedIn messages, along with a few emails, letting me know that friends vouched for me.
Connect.me is declining to give away any information about what they mean to become, describing themselves as “a better way to manage your social connections” but candidly noting that they’re unwilling to tell you a damn thing about themselves or what Connect.me intends to become, when finished. In fact, they flat out tell us that it’s currently “in ninja stealth mode“:
connect.me is crafty, lures us with vouching
Ninja Stealth Mode (read: don't even ask us who we are or what we're up to)
I got conned, but must say that I am more than a little uncomfortable with our willingness to join a service which potentially exposes our social networking accounts – while we have no idea what it is we’re signing up for. It was this Twitter conversation that got me thinking (and then later, a LinkedIn connection letting me know that I had just allowed LinkedIn to message him automatically – scary):
Connect.me vouches gone viral
Connect.me vouching: "...but I did it anyway"
About Saul Fleischman
Showcasing bootstrapped social media networks and tools (while designing my own). OsakaBentures supports emerging social web applications developers by broadly sharing their guest posts on their apps and projects.
Thanks for the vouch. Did you look at the platform on which you are recommending me?
Or did you do it on BranchOut, Talent.me or Connect.me – simply because they lead you to do it, and make it a seconds-per-rope-in-each-friend operation, rather than, say, a LinkedIn recommendation which should require much more thought…?
Talent.me: just 3 clicks per friend to “endorse“
(and perhaps that’s not a good thing)
Hey, Apps, leave my friends alone!
Scam applications may tell you that you can find out who your top 10 stalkers are on Facebook and how many hours you’ve spent on Twitter. The intention is to gain access to your social networking account, so that internet marketers can the can spread their links virally, and drive traffic to their money-making schemes. Via you.
You would think people would be wary of allowing a third-party app, which doesn’t explain its intentions and doesn’t explain who’s behind it, from gaining access to their Facebook or Twitter account. (Credit: Graham Cluley – Connect.me sign-up rush exposes risky behaviour of social networkers )
But that’s exactly what hoards of people seem to be doing right now with Connect.me.
They got me!
Connect.me spam invites
Connect.me suggested I vouch for people, and I did. It never told me they'd LinkedIn message them, though.
Wont you vouch for your friends? Well, why wouldn’t you? As you can see from the screenshot to the left, right out of my LinkedIn “sent messages” tab, though Connect.me did not tell me that they would inform those I recommended via a LinkedIn message – that’s just what they did.
Just as I recently cried foul in regards to Facebook group invites (group inflictions, I called them, since you don’t actually invite to groups in Facebook – but force people into them), and contrasted with LinkedIn group invites, sites need to get called out for using our application authorization – to spam our friends.
If you follow the link and reserve your connect.me name, you are led to link the connect.me site with your Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn account. You are reading the blog of the sucker who went fell for the LinkedIn connection route. In my own defense, similar to Branchout, and CommonRed, I expected this “professional networking site” to draw profile data from LinkedIn to flesh out my profile.
What’s more, several close friends of mine had “vouched for me” – and I had a slew of Twiter DMs, emails, and Facebook messages backed up, all informing me that so-and-so had vouched for me “to get me early access to Connect.me.” How could I go wrong…? I wanted that early access, right, and if they thought it was a thing to dive into…? And I did like those warm DMs, Facebook messages and LinkedIn messages, along with a few emails, letting me know that friends vouched for me.
Connect.me is declining to give away any information about what they mean to become, describing themselves as “a better way to manage your social connections” but candidly noting that they’re unwilling to tell you a damn thing about themselves or what Connect.me intends to become, when finished. In fact, they flat out tell us that it’s currently “in ninja stealth mode“:
connect.me is crafty, lures us with vouching
Ninja Stealth Mode (read: don't even ask us who we are or what we're up to)
I got conned, but must say that I am more than a little uncomfortable with our willingness to join a service which potentially exposes our social networking accounts – while we have no idea what it is we’re signing up for. It was this Twitter conversation that got me thinking (and then later, a LinkedIn connection letting me know that I had just allowed LinkedIn to message him automatically – scary):
Connect.me vouches gone viral
Connect.me vouching: "...but I did it anyway"
About Saul Fleischman
Showcasing bootstrapped social media networks and tools (while designing my own). OsakaBentures supports emerging social web applications developers by broadly sharing their guest posts on their apps and projects.
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Bloggers: A thing to do, to go much, ...
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Then, just the best from your connections, share in SU to your shareable people. Before Yomar Lopez tutelage, I found that a few hundred people followed me - but only 2 took my shares. I now ask - since people don't know what to do in there. Care to hook up with me in there? I am http://ping.fm/LvYn2
** Any of us in Triberr - whether we are connected in a tribe or not - when I see you've done this, I get you back, usually within a day.
Then, just the best from your connections, share in SU to your shareable people. Before Yomar Lopez tutelage, I found that a few hundred people followed me - but only 2 took my shares. I now ask - since people don't know what to do in there. Care to hook up with me in there? I am http://ping.fm/LvYn2
** Any of us in Triberr - whether we are connected in a tribe or not - when I see you've done this, I get you back, usually within a day.
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http://www.scoop.it/t/blog-promotion/...
http://ping.fm/AhHNE Via Blog">http://ping.fm/VnRaN">Blog Promotion
Twitter is going to silently release old, unused usernames. I'm claiming mine!
http://ping.fm/vuDsp
Twitter is going to silently release old, unused usernames. I'm claiming mine!
http://ping.fm/vuDsp
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