Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 04:50:01 +0000
From: Bill Densmore
To: "enterprise@knightfoundation.org"
Subject: FILE COPY: Submission this date to the Knight Enterprise Fund
Knight Enterprise Fund Proposal
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Application Number 782
First Name Bill
Last Name Densmore
Organization Name Clickshare Service Corp.
Organization City Amherst
Organization State MA
Organization Zip 01002
Email Address wdensmore@clickshare.com
Comfirm Email Address wdensmore@clickshare.com
Describe your company 500 words or less
Clickshare Service Corp. is a 15-year-old Amherst, Mass.-based company
which provides user authentication, registration, content-access control,
integrated multiplatform subscription management and credit-card gateway
and settlement services to network information services, particularly news
organizations. Clickshare was the first company to identify the need for a
shared-user network for trust, identity, privacy and information commerce.
It holds a key patent for distributed-user management in which a user has
an account at one web service and can transact or share persona
information with other services with one ID, password and account -- a
"FastPass" for web services. Clickshare's patented "four-party model"
approach to information commerce is vital to creating a compelling user
experience for paid content on the web. Developing a shared-user network
for information services on the web -- adding a layer of identity and
commerce -- is crucial to the future of journalism and participatory
democracy. Clickshare has approximately 30 stockholders and is
self-funding. Its CEO is Richard A. Lerner, Ph. D. (Carnegie-Mellon
computer science) and the company has five employees and consultants. It
is based in Amherst, Mass., and has approximately 15 enterprise customers,
including the New York Times Co., at Worcester, Mass., and The McClatchy
Co., at Lexington, Ky. Clickshare proposes to seek a PRI or equity
investment to finance engineering of a federated authentication, logging
and settlement service to be licensed for use to a non-profit,
public-benefit Information Trust Association.
Please see: http://www.papertopersona.org.
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Bill Densmore
Founder/Consultant
Clickshare Service Corp.
48 North Pleasant St., Suite 301
P.O. Box 376
Amherst MA 01004-0376
off: 413-253-7800 ext. 801 / m: 617-448-6600
wdensmore@clickshare.com