[Sigia-l] Maybe I'm just loopy this week

[Andrew Heaton]

Sean,

Apparently you don't use Friendster (www.friendster.com)

It's whuffie in the form of linked friends.  

You're only as good as who links to you!

- A

 
 
Andrew Heaton
Manager, Information Architecture 
tel : 248-454-4005
aheaton at organic.com
Organic, Inc.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Sean Lawrence [mailto:slawrence at lucidvagary.com] 
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 10:59 AM
To: sigia l
Subject: [Sigia-l] Maybe I'm just loopy this week


But I got myself wondering why no one has developed a
Reputation/Identity Management System.  It would be a framework that
would allow people to create a single identity and then provide a method
for obtaining or losing reputation points from different sites like
eBay, Amazon, Slashdot, Plastic, and various blogs and forums that
already track and score reputation.  I realize there needs to be a
business model built around something like this but I'm surprised I
haven't heard of anything like this and getting buy in from large and
small site alike would be diffcult, but it certainly seems like a worthy
effort.  And M$ Passport ain't it.

Anyone else ever think about something like this?

I know Cory Doctorow has with his ill-phrased Whuffie in books like
"Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom", but there has been no centralized
or distributed project geared towards such a dormant economy.  Everyone
is building there own constantly recreating the wheel right now.  Isn't
it time we start exploring markets of esteem? Won't somebody think of
the children?

Thoughts, comments, rotten tomatoes?

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