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Thanks to Capucine Cousin for talking about us again in the French newspaper Les Échos.

The tests are going very well, Thanks to you!

We have now 83% of the pré-alpha testers that have successfully certified their ID in France, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Serbia, United States of America and Canada. We had a few little bugs and some banks seems not to support our solution, we’ll provide a list soon and work to fix this problem.

But we still need more pré-alpha testers to verifiy that our certification process is correctly working in those countries, leave a comment to get your invitation:

• Albania, Algeria, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, Bermuda, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Ivory Coast, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Malta, Martinique, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Reunion, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Syria, Taiwan, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United States of America, Uruguay, Venezuela, Vietnam, Zimbabwe

Like millions of users I have a Facebook’s account, with a lot of friends, pictures, videos, groups, events, emails, and any kind of content allowed to be post on Facebook. But I’ve been too active so the guys at Facebook closed 3 times my account and I end-up banned.

So I did like everyone else, I used an other email address and opened a new Facebook account, with new friends (not all of them because some thought that my new account was a fake one…), new content and so on.

A few months later, I’ve received a Facebook’s invite to join from one of my friends on another email address. But I get a really bad surprise.

Facebook is using my deleted account to encourage people to sign-up as a recommanded person that they might know!

So I can legitimately say that Facebook IS STEALING MY ID WITHOUT MY AUTHORIZATION, that’s insane!

I’m quite sure that a bunch of you are wondering on what are stored your IDs, here’s some picts and I’ll let the best of you explain the details in the comments…

MyID.is: les serveurs
Originally uploaded by Charles Nouÿrit

MyID.is: les serveurs
Originally uploaded by Charles Nouÿrit

We need to test our certification process worlwide, so we need you!

MyID.is trying to answer a simple question, how can we provide our users with a digital ID that have been certified with the same level of trust as if we met in real life with a valid ID delivered by a governement administration but without the need to actually meet in real life?

By certifying your ID you’ll be able to certify all of your online presence, such as your blogs, your Facebook, LinkedIn… profiles, your comments,… and any kind of online presence that is part of your Identity 2.0.

After months of developping our solution, we are now ready to open our plateform to the public.
We lost a lot of time, energy and money because of one of our partner that was unfortunatly more than incompetent. So we had to find a new way to certify our user’s ID. Sadly it’s not as user friendly as we were supposed to do it, but it’s the same level of security. And we need to test it worldwide!

Note for users from outside the EURO zone: you’ll be asked to find on your bank statement a random amount between €2 and €5 in order to complete the first step of your certification process, this amount will appears in your transaction label on your bank statement. It’ll start with MYID.IS.
The Amount you need to find is the one in EUROS not the one in your local money!

So if you wanna be part of this pre-alpha test, just DM me on http://www.twitter.com/myid and I’ll send you an invitation code.

Thank you all for your help.

I just get back from Plugg in Brussels and The Next Web in Amsterdam, that I’ll be speaking tomorrow at ad:Tech Paris at 10:30 am about Digital Identity and Reputation Management with Alain Bensoussan, Xavier Moisant, Stéphane Billiet, and Franck Sitbon.

Come if you wanna talk to us about Digital ID, we love that!

Sorry for this post, I’m just claiming this blog to Technorati.

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When a friend of mine called me, asking if I wanted to make the pilot of a series of entrepreneurs podcast named Horizon Entrepreneurs that promote entrepreneurship in France, I immediatly answered yes. Looking at the result, I’m really glad to have made it. It’s in French.

This is a really old cartoon, that I kept since 1993… What wasn’t a problem at those times, is one now since we’ll be approching the 2 billions Internet users frontier really soon!

Cartoon by Peter Steiner. The New Yorker, July 5, 1993 issue (Vol.69 (LXIX) no. 20) page 61.

Well, the problem when you’re not native in a foreign language is that you think that a baseline is awsome when in case it means exactly the opposite of what you think…

A friend of mine catch me at Lift08 and told me that our baseline “Just trust me” is the favorite sentence of the snake in the Jungle book… ouch that hurts, expecially when your service is about trustworthness.

So here’s our new baseline, which actually should have been obvious in the first time: