Badges/Overview

A digital backpack would allow you to store and display badges that you have picked-up from many different sites across the web. Badges can provide a good way for potential friends, collaborators, co-workers and employers to size you up. However, that’s only true if they can associate all your badges with you. You don’t want to send them traipsing around the web to look at sites like P2PU, iRemix and Badger to see your badges. Instead, you want to all the badges from these different places reliably associated with your online identity.

Blog Posts

• Mark Surman's blog post Badges, identity and you.
• Aza Raskin's thoughts, Identity in the Browser (Firefox)
• Joshua Gay's blog post on 10 badge systems

Other badge projects

• EduFire.com/badges (or see File:Edufire-badges.pdf) includes badges for a wide variety of activities on the site, some badges include: 'Friend Pirate. Yarrrrr.'; 'I've Promoted Myself on Craigslist', 'I've Left 20 Ratings', and 'My Idea was Implemented!', '1,000 Unread Inbox Messages', and '1000 Classes Taken'.
• Les Orchard's Badger]