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Online Reputation Is Hard To Do

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the to-say-nothing-of-trust dept.

Symblized writes "A new article from InformationWeek argues that not only does the Web need ways to verify identity, it also needs better ways to measure reputation . The article uses Digg, Wikipedia, and eBay as examples and muses whether their models could be applied more widely. There's also a profile of Opinity, a company that tried to introduce a reputation system and didn't make it. Choice quote from a source in the article: 'The idea of a transferable, semantic reputation is identity nirvana.'"

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  1. eh? by Turn-X+Alphonse · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Why is The article uses Digg, Wikipedia, and eBay as examples and muses whether their models could be applied more widely in a different colour to the rest of the text?

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