25+ Ways to Manage Your Online Identity

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There is nothing more important online than your identity, and nothing more annoying than when someone finds a way to steal it. This list comprises 25+ tools to manage your reputation, officially sign documents, aggregate your social network IDs and more.

And yes, there's some irony that there are so many sites to manage your identity: hopefully all these will adopt a set of standards to make life easier for us all.

Online Identity Management

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claimID.com - Works along with openID to verigy your identity across multiple websites.

FindMeOn.com - Not only can you link all of your networks together, you can verify your identity so people know which profiles are you.

FreeYourID.com - You are assigned a .name address you use to sign up for sites with and it then verifies you with OpenID and you determine how much the site learns about you.

Garlik.com - It searches the web for mentions of you and helps you manage them in the hopes of stopping identity theft.

MyOpenID.com - Gives you a universal username and password to use on openID enabled websites, giving you better management over your identity.

Spyshakers.com - An Identity Management System what allows users to access their favorite websites and passwords from any computer.

Sxip.com - OpenID for Java and a Firefox plugin under development named Sxipper and work with openID.

TypeKey.com - Another provider of the openID standard.

Online Reputation Management

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FakeBreaker.com - Suspect someone isn't who they say they are? People questioning you? Sign up and check everyone's web cred.

Naymz.com - Signup and invite your refeences to come and leave you reviews, building your online rep.

Rapleaf.com - Look up your reputation, rate others, and they will be invited to rate you in return.

ReputationDefender.com - Find out what is being said about you around the web and get it removed.

TrustPl.us - Start building an online reputation so you can be trusted by others, and see whom you can trust.

Online Signatures

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DocuSign.com - Just as the name implies, sign documents online and have them delivered electronically.

eSignForms.com - Use the service to sign, initial, route and approve forms online and get them routed where they're going.

Middlepost.com - Real-time collaboration and electronic signature service to allow you to certify documents electronically.

Sertifi.com - Service that allows you to sign and send "signed" contracts online.

Profile Centralization

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Comwat.com - All of your online identities in one place to make it easier for you and your friends to get to each of your profiles.

onXiam.com - Link all your online identities into one account and share that will all, making it easier for people to find you across the Internet.

OtherEgo.com - Bring all your networks together and show them all off publicly or just some of them.

ProfileBuilder.com - Creates a centralized profile you link from anywhere, and based on where the user comes from, it determines what aspects to show them.

ProfileMat.com - Aggregate your social site accounts, and even allows people to leave comments on your overall profile page.

SimplifID.com - Bring together all your online identities and arrange them so when you give out the ID, online friends see one setup, business associates another.

SocialURL.com - Connect all your social networks with one handy URL instead of giving your friends a huge list.

Venyo.org - Make a portable online reputation that lets you link all your social networks, blogs, and websites.

Zoolit.com - Allows you to build a landing page with all of your social networks shown, then add buttons on other pages so people can get to it.