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

[Leslie Johnston]

whuffie!  Someone has been reading "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom" ...


At 11:00 AM 9/5/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>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
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>Andrew Heaton
>Manager, Information Architecture
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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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