We will be present at a great event (conference & workshops) about digital identity and online reputation, held in Geneva (Switzerland) on December 11th. All sessions will be held in French (by the way, the original event name is Identité numérique et réputation en ligne: de l'évolution à l'action). This event is co-organized by Dynamia and Romanding.ch.

With proliferation of exchange platforms, blogs and social networks, as well as development of content sharing and collaboration tools, new problematics as authentication, confidentiality and privacy become more urgent. In an attempt to resolve these problems a number of tools for managing digital identity were developed, each with pros and cons, creating some confusion among users. Recently, the OpenID system is increasingly being adopted. Is it, however, the long-awaited solution?

The interest for digital identity is not only in the solutions it provides to various problems, but also in the potential it brings to products and services to go beyond the isolated islets.

The reputation online, as well as digital identity, is the center of attention. Each time one makes a contribution on the web, it is a brick added to his/her reputation. The Internet users and our customers also contribute by writing about us, about our products and services. How to manage our own reputation ? How to know the others' reputation ?

The conference will focus at first on the rise of digital identity and online reputation online and will help to better understand the problems and challenges. It will be followed by workshops.

Our Chief Research Officer, Dr Jean-Marc Seigneur, will be the first speaker (From Digital Identity to Relationships and Reputation) and will lead a workshop (Using Reputation Management Tools, including Venyo).

Feel free to join us !

When ? December 11th, 1:30PM - 6:30PM Where ? Organisation Météorologique Internationale, Geneva, Switzerland (see map) Useful links: - program (PDF, 89KB) - register

We are proud to announce the arrival of Dr. Jean-Marc Seigneur in our team. Jean-Marc will hold a key position in our staff : Chief Research Officer (CRO)
 
Dr. Jean-Marc Seigneur has been researching computational models of the human notion of trust since 2002 as part of different international R&D projects eventually becoming a Research Fellow of Trinity College Dublin and then joining the University of Geneva. He has published more than 30 scientific papers and has chaired different international sessions in the field of security, privacy, reputation, trust and identity management. He has been an expert reviewer of multi-million Euro projects for the French National Research Agency and the European Commission.

Venyo has been nominated for the AlwaysOn Media 100--AlwaysOn's power list of the top 100 private companies that are disrupting the Advertising, Marketing Branding, Publishing and Public Relations worlds.

AO editors pride themselves on the selection process. Over the past 5 years, in an effort to identify leaders and future leaders, 25% of companies they have selected to the list have exited via acquisition or IPO.

The selection process culminates with the AlwaysOn Media NYC event (January 28-30, 2008) where AlwaysOn will honor the 100 winners and incorporate many of the CEOs into the program.

We are proud to be part of it !

AlwaysOn website AO 100 Media 2007 - Winners

We have developed a Facebook application, called "Online Reputation". This app allows you to build your reputation directly from your Facebook profile.

Let your friends rate and tag you to improve your Vindex™, your personal trust index. It's expressed in percentage and everyone starts at 50%, that means not bad, not good, just thoroughly average ;-)

Each one of your friends can only evaluate you once and add tags to qualify you. To avoid cheating, people have to link their facebook profile with Venyo but the evaluations are always anonymous to be as objective as possible.

The application will also display the evaluation related to your best tags, reflecting your specific skills, and links to your Venyo profile. Your ranks are updated daily and gives your position in the worldwide, the country and the region's Top Vindex™.

Don't wait longer, and add this app to your Facebook profile. If you already have a Venyo free account, just link your profiles by filling a little "Link me" form. If you are new at Venyo, just click the link to create a free account.You can also join our Venyo group to be a member of our community.