Calling Card 2.0
Jan 13th, 2008 by Aswath
I came across this site ostensibly belonging to Joseph Poon. His idea is to instead of distributing a standard business card he will give one that contains the URL of that site and an access key. To get his contact information, one has to go this site and enter the access key. Then you will be presented with the contact information filtered specially for you. The card has maximum of five elements – name, title, company, URL and access key. I had suggested this form of calling card previously.
At that site, you can provide your OpenID instead of access key. If he had entered your OpenID in his database, then you can enter that instead of the access key. In this respect this idea is same as how EnThinnai handles distributing one’s contact information. He uses access key for those who may not have OpenID initially.
Interestingly, Scott Kveton reports that a similar discussion took place at the OpenIDDevCamp today. (It is not clear whether Joseph’s effort is an independent one or is it part of DevCamp.) He concludes with:
I can see all kinds of applications for other types of information you might want to land there as well (can you say your lifestream?). Looks for some folks (maybe those attending OpenIDDevCamp?) will implement these features in the near future. Let’s get some code out there and start playin’ with it!! Yeah!
Scott, please feel free to take a look at EnThinnai to see some of these being implemented.
Hi Aswath, if you (or anyone else for that matter) would like me to send you an access key to play around with, fire me an email: josephcp at sonicdotnet. It’s nothing too impressive (just from a weekend playing around), it’s more about the thoughts, implications, and way-of-thinking.
The main purpose of having an access key was from a discussion with friends about URL-based relationships and eliminating-spam / access-control.
Thanks for the positive comments, I’ve also moved the page to http://id.josephcp.com/