%0 Journal Article
%T Open Personal Identity as a Service
%A Miroslav Behan
%J Journal of Computer Networks and Communications
%D 2012
%I Hindawi Publishing Corporation
%R 10.1155/2012/672196
%X The mobile computing established communication environment where personal identification is a key factor which influence usability of mobile application. Open personal identity is a partial service which enables crowd resource identifications processing in online distributive unified form over secured communication channel. The service provides current fresh personal identificators which are essential in communication process. 1. Introduction Do you remember the situation when you have changed your phone number and you had to tell this change to all of your friends, relatives, and even workmates? That time is over with the Open Person Identity as a Service. Imagine worldwide Internet service which provides online personal information such as mobile numbers, current living address, or current friend¡¯s cross different social media. There are many advantages of usage of such a kind of service. We would like to introduce some of them in more details. The modern knowledge society produces much more information than we are able to consume and therefore the utilization or clarity of information is more than convenient. Only those kinds of services which are not complicated or confusing would be accepted by many and the strength of intuitive factors for applications or services behaviour will increase in time. That is why social media have such power of influence because they are gathering information from many sources in easy and comprehensive personal way. The problem is when you have more social media than the amount of time to spend on scanning or posting personal information into the different sources is not efficient. The case is about to find an open solution which consolidates all media in one place and basically provides personal social connector as a convenient user-friendly solution with an easy and comprehensive user interface. 2. Problem Definition The amount of social media networks, multiplicity of personal identity [1], and the inconvenient way of handling the important personal information leads us to think that there are some better ways of how to make our lives a little bit easier. That¡¯s why we start to think about the problem in terms of usability in current available online social technologies [2, 3]. We started to ask how to solve our daily life common problems and we summarized them in the following questions. What if we have more than one mobile device but each one of them has a different content? Or if we have just one mobile device but we lost it? Could we exchange mobile device platforms without any inconveniences? Do we have to
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