jyte openid experiment/social credibility site
jyte.com looks a little like a web2.0 weekend project from university students, and it probably is, but is somewhat amusing nonetheless. I’m pretty sure they’re hoping to get bought by Yahoo for 100x their investment
Jyte allows you to make “statements” or “claims” as they call them, and let people quickly rate them up/down, for realtime social interaction. Are you cool? Make a claim!
Anyhow, probably the most significant point about it is that it uses OpenID for login. This is really a great thing, I’m a huge fan of stuff like OpenID (I say “like”, because personally I prefer the Yahoo BBAuth stuff, as 400 million people already have the login credentials to use it.) It’ll be interesting to see if this takes off and gets really popular; it could, seeing how hotornot it crazy lucrative and Bix got bought by Yahoo… maybe I’m just jealous I didn’t come up with this super-simple idea ![]()
1. The students behind Jyte are JanRain, the OpenID market leader.
2. If you have BBAuth, you have OpenID.