We are focused on our core value proposition, which we are bringing to life together with true enthusiasts. We are convinced that we are creating a solution that fits both users’ and services’ needs. Our focus is user-friendliness, build simplicity and a secure & scalable architecture.
We are supported by a growing number of like-minded individuals who are more and more conscientious of what they share and where they are sharing it
We want TheWriteID to be free to use and are working hard to make it so.
We definitely hope so. They mostly monetize and target their users/customers based on profile data. But profile data is seldom updated. We want to help them to keep profiles up-to-date and infuse them with additional information (e.g. interests), if a user chooses to do so.
Startups, small networks and services would also benefit from a trusted middleware that manages identification and authentication. We would reduce signup and maintenance hassle, making a test drive easier to do. We help them focus on the core of their business, which is building and delivering awesome products & services.
To put it very bluntly: We’re allies, not competitors.
People have ever-growing concerns about what personal details they share. They find outdated identities of themselves. Which as such is not a big problem, but it becomes one when it’s potentially harmful to their reputation. We also believe that people don’t know what services and networks they have signed up for any longer, let alone do they know what profile information they provided.
People need an easy-to-maintain tool that enables them to control and manage their own profile data and network subscriptions.
Yes and no. We can grow as we go along. Of course, a lot of users will strengthen our position towards networks and services. And we believe that we’ll soon be in the position to represent an awful lot of you out there ;-)
We also know networks and services keep on popping up, but no one can predict what will be the next Facebook. It’s a question of becoming the preferred and trusted identification and authentication partner worldwide. So we will be patient, and while we’re on our way to becoming that reference partner, we’ll continuously improve our service.
It will be very secure. We're using PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) & AES encryption. That means it’ll be distributed and you'll need about a zillion computers each checking a billion keys per second - so you'd still need around 2 billion years to crack it.
We won’t. We hope you will. By signing our petition, telling the networks this is the right way forward, and by using our service once we launch it.
We felt it’s the right name. TheWriteID is the right idea with the right proposition and it will ultimately be the right choice. And last but not least, it’s a story we write together, in full transparency.
Yes, there have been. Big players such as Microsoft, Google and even Facebook are trying it. But as it’s not their core business and they aren’t independent, they can’t succeed.
OpenID was a really good attempt but failed to build a user base because it was too technically complex.
And then there are a variety of small services that claim(ed) to do the same but got lost in too many features or didn’t achieve traction nor critical mass.