LinkedIn is trying to become that one public identity that people take with them across the web.
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What followed was a tug-of-war about what it means to be a private person with a public identity.
Nash believes that the professional identity is the most natural to become the default public identity, rather than, say, a photo-sharing website.
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"In the real world there are countless circumstances where we only know a person by their pseudonym or by their public identity, " he said.
Mr Obama's has been to construct a public identity from scratch.
Monroe emerges as a painfully self-aware and motivated performer who craved achievement as much as fame yet understood the value of her sexual allure, which she donned like a mask and became, to her dismay, her public identity.
The only mandatory identity exposed in cyber space is the public cyber identity.
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This public cyber identity is needed to make sure that data addressed to that object can be delivered.
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The changes are part of a broader attempt to make LinkedIn the default public and professional identity for people across the web.
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The victim came forward long ago and made her identity public, saying she was disturbed by how the criminal case had been handled.
For the general public, transgender identity may be a new concept, though many might recall Chaz Bono, the child of entertainers Sonny and Cher.
He referenced Wikipedia, of course, where debates rage about what should and should not be made public, including the identity of the boy in the viral "Star Wars Kid" video.
Lawyer Michael Rubin, who represented Mr Hart during the appeal, said the decision set a "wonderful precedent" and would help any athlete or other public figure protect their identity against unwanted commercial exploitation.
The Davie-Brown Index is used by marketers to determine a celebrity's (or in this case, a sports mascot's) ability to influence brand identity with the public.
Ms Plame's husband, former US ambassador Joseph Wilson, has alleged that his wife's identity was made public in an attempt to discredit him after he challenged the government's arguments for going to war in Iraq.
The identity number will help the poor, who find it difficult to access public services and benefits because they do not have official records or identity.
Patient A, whose identity has not been made public, has decided not to attend the hearing.
Under the 2004 law, the burqa is already banned in public schools, as it is on identity cards.
Mr Mukhtar's identity is now in the public domain and police in Indian-administered Kashmir are neither owning up to his work nor disowning him.
Project 1709 is scheduled for a full public launch in 2013, when the platform identity and additional features will be unveiled.
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By contrast, identity theft or accidental confusion involving public records (whenever a clerk in a district court mistypes a social-security number, say) can lead to more devastating mix-ups.
While foiling tax cheats and identity thieves are certainly in the public interest, there is another side to the story, and it is the story of my clients who have experienced it.
In many democracies, the country's public character is determined primarily by the culture and identity of the majority of its people.
Not traditionally considered a consumer brand, this military institution has established a powerful identity with the U.S. public through nontraditional brand building.
Essentially, the principle behind all mixing services is the ability to remove or obscure any linkage to a real-world identity because the bitcoin blockchain maintains a public transaction log of all transactions.
The shooter worries what could happen if his name went public, like Matt Bissonnette, the SEAL whose identity was revealed after he published the book " No Easy Day" using a pseudonym.
The announcement couldn't have come at a better time for both companies: Toyota is in the middle of a public relations crisis, and Digg is dealing with an identity crisis.
One of the most frequently employed dark arts is the sting, where a reporter assumes a fake identity in order to coax or cajole a public figure into saying something interesting or incriminating.
Social media, especially when coupled with public information sources, can enable attackers to build employee profiles for identity theft and unauthorized access.
If self-driven vehicles were the norm, car travel would assume a new identity as a type of private transportation that incorporated aspects of public transportation.
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