Show HN: Nametiles – Your digital identity, embedded in your blog
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For instance, in a WordPress post, you have the author (ie "This post was written by +larry"), so it'd be cool if the WP plugin used a Nametile on the author link.
Then, somewhere, I should be able to see everything +larry has written on any site, so that I can keep tabs on stuff he writes on his various properties.
I know Google dumped showing Authorship in the search results (I'm not sure if they're using it at all in their algorithm), but I think this is the best use case.
I like certain authors but don't want to follow their social media. I just want to see the stuff they've written.
And that, IMHO, was the actual purpose of Authorship anyway! Google lost their direction with it and made it far too complicated (as they often do)...
Anyway, just one of several cool use cases for this. Congrats on the cool idea and launch Larry!!
Google, Facebook, etc have tried to do this before, but it never works because their business concerns always get in the way of the technology.
Imagine Facebook agreeing to make Google Accounts their primary key for their userbase. It wouldnt even happen over Zuck's cold dead body - would be a horrible business decision.
Passcard is in the blockchain and the only ownership is people owning their identities, so anyone can build on it...just like I built Nametiles!