Web Startup Offers A Degree Of Control

November 30, 2006 By David Burn 1 Comment

USA Today introduces us to ClaimID, a company that believes search engines have been having the final say about personal identities for too long.
ClaimID lets you classify, annotate, prioritize and share the information about you found online, so that people who search for you are able to see the identity you want to present.
ClaimID was created by two doctoral students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Information and Library Science.

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About David Burn

I wrote my first ad for a local political candidate when I was 17. She went on to win her race, and I felt the power of persuasive copy for the first time. Starting in Portland in 1995, I worked my way across the country as a copywriter and eventually became a content director making media products for big packaged goods brands. I returned to Oregon in 2008, and now I focus on building brands for companies that matter, including this one.

daveednyc

Thanks for the head’s up on this. Good stuff. I just started using it and yeah, my claimID page shows up at number 4 on a google name search. Now the world will know that I was not indicted for defrauding a school district, that I am not running for mayor in Canada, and that I’m not dead.