I, too, need an identity. But not one controlled by a corporation ultimately responsible to its stockholders. Note three lines of guidance (restated in http://www.blindfiveyearold.com/how-to-implement-rel-author ) from Google:

> The TL;DR version for implementing rel=”author” is that it requires three specific links.

>> A link from your blog post or article to your author page using rel=”author”

>> A link from your author page to your Google profile page using rel=”me”

>> A link from your Google profile page to your author page using rel=”me”