Valebrity
Valebrity is a web site that validates the identity of celebrities and other well known people on social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube and more. The company was founded in January 2009 and reached over a million views within 5 months.
Valebrity has now been mentioned in NBC Washington, The Washington Post, E! Online, BBC Radio 4, The Guardian, Yahoo News, The Sun, Hi-Tech Scotland, Phillip Schofields’ Official Site, KTLA TV, by well known people such as Ryan Seacrest, Phill Jupitus, Jamie Oliver, Phillip Schofield, Eddie Izzard and in a number of other popular sites on the Internet such as TrendCentral, Film.com, Journalism.co.uk, 16th Letter and many other sites.
It is currently going strong and has unleashed some new ideas.Valebrity TV
Valebrity TV is a spin-off web site/magazine that displays the real time feeds from the validated sources of the identity of celebrities identified on Valebrity.com. An early alpha version was released in July 2009.
In addition a social community blog to cover the celebrity scene is being released at blog.valebrity.TV. This will be managed by community members and will provide a web and mobile commentatry on the latest emerging stories.
OpenID.ORG
OpenID.ORG is currently undergoing re-development.
OpenID is a federated identity system run by the good folks over at http://OpenID.Net and supported by Google, Microsoft, Facebook and more.
The existing site has around 45,000 people registered.
Puzil
Puzil is a project looking at the real-time web.
Puzil is in early development stages.