Numly Certified IDs by Vouchor

Numly, the Web 2.0 copyright service, has just released a new service called Vouchor. Vouchor is a community-based online identity verification service. Once an Internet user becomes vouched, Numly uses the Vouchor API to certify its members identity. This is important when assigned copyright to an individual rather than a user id or login.

Numly allows authors and artists to register their digital works as copyrights. Numly serves as a source of non-repudiation verifying that certain works were submitted by certain user ids at certain times. To prove a copyright claim, Numly needs to know to whom the user id belongs. Vouchor.com is used to establish certified Numly IDs.

For more information on Vouchor go to http://vouchor.com

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Docly: Write with Rights

Docly, the Web 2.0 online word processor, allows authors to write with rights. Write your story, select your copyright (all rights reserved or creative commons), and publish your works online. It's really that simple! You can share your works by default with others or you can name your price and sell your digital works online. You can even tag your works at the time of publication!

Think of Docly as a combination of Flickr for text and Writely for work processing and Lulu for selling digital documents. Try Docly today by directing your browser to:

http://docly.com

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Vouchor Fees Waived for Numly Professionals

Vouchor, the new identity 2.0 service from Numly, launched over the Labor Day weekend. This service aims to verify the identities of Internet users through face-to-face witnessing of government issued photo identification documents. Numly uses Vouchor to certify the identity of its copyright submitters but other web sites and companies can use Vouchor to verify someone's identity online.

The price for a vouch is $19.95; however, Numly Professionals will get this fee waived. Check your Numly account for your voucher code and use it to "pay" online. Until there are more vouchors in other cities, you may need to notarize the vouchor application and mail it into Numly to get vouched.

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Vouchor: Ruby on Rails!

Vouchor is Numly's first Web 2.0 application written entirely on Ruby on Rails (RoR).

Moving to Linux, Lighttpd, and MySQL were big steps for this Microsoft developer but I can honestly say that Vouchor was one of my favorite development projects. RoR takes a little getting used to (coming from ASP and .NET) but once you get the hang of it, the coding can be very quick and enjoyable. No more low-level SQL database routines and connection strings to worry about with RoR. Like magic, it just works! I was also able to take advantage of my Mac Powerbook as a development workstation and even deployed a Linux server at home for testing running on Mongrel.

Finding a new hosting company that supported RoR was also an interesting experience. Luckily I listen to Josh Owen and Chris Sailor's Web 2.0 Show and remembered hearing that they run a hosting business called Steel Pixel. After reviewing their site and service plans, I sent them an email with nearly 10 questions about their offering. They replied in less than an hour and answered all of my questions with much detail. I initially signed a one-month agreement with Steel Pixel to test the waters (so to speak) but after Josh came to my aid over 10 times patiently answering my silly nuby RoR deployment questions regarding SVN and Capistrano I confirmed my early decision. These guys rock! They are very knowledgeable on hosting RoR applications and their level of service is phenomenal. The other RoR hosting companies should aspire to be as good as Steel Pixel!

Okay - I guess you can tell that I am excited about Vouchor and Ruby on Rails and Steel Pixel. You can expect more innovative RoR applications and new services from Numly in the near future!

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Vouchor - Identity 2.0

Vouchor.com, Numly's identity 2.0 service, launched last night! Vouchor aims to verify the identities of Internet users through face-to-face witnessing of government issued photo identification documents.

Numly's Vouchor service consists of an international community of vouchors rather than a governmental agency charged with verifying web user identities. Anyone can become a vouchor - either by mailing your paperwork to Numly or by being vouched by someone who has already been vouched. Vouchors can review your paperwork in person and verify your identity online. Once you are vouched online, you automatically become a vouchor.

Becoming a vouchor is simple. In fact, it only requires 3 steps:

* Sign Up as a Vouchee by registering online at vouchor.com.

* Search for a Vouchor in your area and contact them to schedule your vouch. (Don't forget to bring your paperwork to the meeting.)

* Upon successfully verifying your identity, the Vouchor will sign into vouchor.com and vouch for your identity. (As soon as this step happens, you become a vouchor!)

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Numly Launches Vouchor!

Numly has just now launched its Vouchor.com identity 2.0 service for the purpose of certifying identities required for copyright registrations among other things.

The Internet was founded on anonymity. This works perfectly fine for most web transactions but certain transactions require proof of your identity. Examples of these types of transactions include: voting solutions and governmental registrations. This is the case with Numly and its copyright filings.

Numly allows authors and artists to register their digital works as copyrights. Numly serves as a source of non-repudiation verifying that certain works were submitted by certain user ids at certain times. To prove a copyright claim, Numly needs to know to whom the user id belongs. Vouchor.com is used to establish certified Numly IDs.

Other services can use Vouchor APIs to verify user identities as well. Vouched users are more likely to be trusted than anonymous users. Use your vouched identity on EBay, CraigsList, Amazon, Yahoo, and other services. Vouchor ensures that your email addresses are really yours and your identity is really yours even if you are using a pen name. (Pen names will never have their true user identities revealed)

Get vouched today at http://vouchor.com!

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Numly Surpasses 6,000 ESNs Assigned

Numly, the Web 2.0 copyright service, has just surpassed 6,000 registered digital works from over 1,600 auhtors and artists. Nearly 500 of these registrations are copyrighted under Creative Commons. The rest of the registrations are traditional All rights reserved.

Numly assigns Numly Numbers (Electronic Serial Numbers / ESNs) for all things digital. These unique identifiers provide digital rights management capabilities as well as third-party, non-repudiation measures for proof of copyright via real-time verifications. Numly Numbers are simple to generate and act as an electronic timestamp. They also allow you to track who is viewing your content and when it is accessed, monitor ratings, and can be used as permalinks!

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Numly Author of the Week Goes to...

Numly's Author of the Week award goes to the Security Monkey again. This time for his Digg posting that allowed us to test out our architecture. The great news is that we survived over 50,000 barcodes served to his the Chief's posting alone in a single day!

Thanks Chief!

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Create an ESN per Digital Copy

Numly Numbers can be used for more than just copyright proof and verification. They can also be used as digital identifiers of copies of a digital work such as a licensed copy of an e-book or presentation or song. Even better, each Numly Number assigned to a copy of a digital work can identify the owner of the copy of work and the type of copyright license assigned to the digital copy of work.

You can think of Numly Numbers as next generation ISBN numbers. Rather than assigning an ISBN to your digital work where each copy has the same ISBN number, try assigning a Numly Number to each copy of your digital work sold or distributed. This will give you tracking capabilities of your works and licenses as well as a vehicle for allowing your customers to trade or sell their copies of works through a digital community.

Numly's Docly.com service provides this type of numeration service for self-publishers automatically. Each published work submitted through Docly is automatically assigned a Numly Number. Every digital work that is purchased also automatically generates another unique Numly Number with the licensee information associated with the Docly account that purchased the copy of digital work. Cool huh?

Numly APIs are available that allow third-party applications to request Numly Numbers dynamically. This means that as the customer requests a download of a digital work a Numly Number can be request and assigned to the customer and embedded in the digital work for tracking purposes. This could be conceived as Good DRM.

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Post Using Numly Gets Digg'd

Security Monkey writes for ITToolBox on A Day in the Life of an Information Security Investigator. The Chief, a Professional Numly publisher, uses Numly on a regular to copyright his work and track his blog traffic in real-time using the Numly Dashboard reporting feature.

Today, the Chief posted a blog entry entitled, "Look At All Of These Passwords!". To Numly's surprise, the Chief's posting was submitted to Digg and has generated over 50,000 hits to his article so far today. Since Numly tracks content views for all copyright works submitted to Numly, we served up over 50,000 barcode impressions for the Chief today without any impact to our servers or services!

Also because of the Chief's article, Numly picked up another 25 registered members. Good going Chief!

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Numly Redesigns Home Page

Numly, the Web 2.0 copyright service, has redesigned their home page to feature more AJAX and a built-in RSS reader consisting of all copyrights submited to Numly. Check out the Login button!

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Docly Session TimeOuts Resolved

Docly authors writing long articles no longer need to worry about their web sessions timing out before their article or short story is written. Enhancements have been made to re-establish your session upon saving your story on Docly. This ensures that an unlimited amount of time may transpire between the start of your article and the submission to Docly.

Happy Self-Publishing!

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Publisher Photos Added to Docly

Docly, Numly's web 2.0 self-publishing service, adds social networking buddy icons next to each article. Buddy icons for all self-publishers can be found at http://docly.com/docly/members.asp

Professional self-publishers are now distinguished by gold stars!

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