Linked In clues in to OIM

Surprise, surprise, people may actually CARE about their online identities.



This is definitely another big step in the right direction; however, why do users have to expose the full monty in order to get indexed? Also, the search engines seem to be credibility leeching off of the social networking sites. The search engines still owe human individuals a way to directly manage their own identities within their spidery indexes. I continue to assert that Yahoo could get back in the game in a big way if it focused on OIM and positioned itself as The Identity Defender, empowering the individual with tools to dress him or herself up on the web however they see fit and to change presentation and dress-up styles over time, just like people do in the real world.

I know, I know, it's a radical departure to consider Mystical Ethereal Cyberspace as part and parcel of the Real World; but R & D is just my thing.