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February 04, 2005
The reputation dream
For some strange reason I woke up in the middle of the night with the following thought echoing around my head: "We need a centralized reputation server". I have no idea what lead to this and I can't remember anything that would have triggered this thought - especially not at 4am in the morning.
I guess the idea of a centralized reputation server isn't new - but I certainly found it intriguing to imagine a product that could be installed say inside a large corporate network and where reputation data of individuals could be collected and also published as an RSS feed (for example). Combining your reputation information from eBay, Amazon and other places into a centralized collection that others can query (or you could include in your blog) also seems interesting to think about. Is there anything like this available or planned?
Posted by Matthew at February 4, 2005 04:55 PM
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Mmmm...whuffie tracking.
I suppose we'd need a unified standard for reputation information as well, since having anything on the Internet "centralized" these days is so unlikely.
Posted by: Anthony Eden at February 4, 2005 11:12 PM