Identity crisis?

Earlier this month, I stumbled on the excellent work that's currently in progress on online identity. At that point I suspected it would eventually come up in my work, and sure enough it has. I'm currently designing a community tool which will involve mashing up a number of different online applications. One issue that I'm concerned will hamper the user experience is the problem of maintaining a consistant identity over a number of different sites.

I've found a couple of interesting tools that are trying to overcome the problems we all encounter when working on multiple online applications. They both concentrate on managing user comments in blogs and are well worth taking a look at:



Cocomment is in a pretty good working state and is compatable with a lot of the main community tools. The other application that I'm interested in following is Sxore which is one of Dick Hardt's projects.