ShareMy.What?

It looks distinctly OpenID, but I can’t figure out if it is.

In fact, ShareMy.Name is one of the least confidence-inducing sites in a long time. Not only is its purpose muddled (sharing via a common password, huh?) but it describes its security measures to secure your private information thus:

“All your information is encrypted on our servers, so don’t worry, even the humans at ShareMy.name don’t know any of your information”

Instead of showing how they encrypt, they link the word encrypted to wikipedia’s article on encryption.

How do you use their stuff?

“The idea is simple, point Javascript (Ajax) to http://sharemy.name/username/thier_password/request and the request will be given.”

Sigh. Folks, I’m not making this up.

Comments

[Aubrey Island]

Hey, I would like to comment a little about ShareMy.Name. Now, sharemy.name has gotten some pre-mature consideration lately.

ShareMy.Name was initially created to store your first name, email, and website for commenting on blogs. Now it's becoming a source of storing your info in a centralized place where you can share it with websites (through a browser-based javascript button). Now, so far, we only store info like your first name, email, address, phone number, and it's all OPTIONAL.

And yes, the centralized password is an access key, which you can regenerate if you ever feel you've given your information to the wrong site or people.

The idea of the access keys is to keep your username and password with ShareMy.Name private and your identity temporary with websites you trust.

As for the ajax, that was in very EARLY ShareMy.Name, to say the least it still is EARLY! But, the ajax idea proved unusable in certain situations, cross domain wise. So, that gave birth to the Javascript button and access key syncing.

Please, remember ShareMy.Name is a very early service, which is growing and improving every day, with every new user that says something. So I'm glad you commented on it.

Visit the site, show us how anything is unsafe, we are here for the users, the people and making their online lives a little easier.

I invite anyone to help out at our site by commenting on the documentation that is developing. If I'm doing anything reasonably unsafe, for sure, I will stop.