DISQUS

Dan Engel · 3 years ago

Sounds like a great idea.

It makes sense that a company would handle reputation data across multiple sites. The key will of course be critical mass, but if anyone out there knows how to make this type of venture successful, it's Auren.

bill washburn · 3 years ago

It's not surprising that RapLeaf is getting some great initial response. With Auren Hoffman in the lead, it's sure to be a focused, well-executed effort. That is also why we at Opinity are excited to be working to join forces in a few highly complimentary ways... stay tuned.

Contrary to what others are thinking, I feel RapLeaf need not take on eBay any time soon. Challenging eBay might happen later, I suppose. Rather, I think Auren has a far more fascinating, more imprtant, and equally valuable idea. I'd call RapLeaf the eBay rating system for the rest of us. This can be a great service, if it can reach a tipping point. If RapLeaf succeeds, then the e-commerce space will be nicely covered by two reputation systems which are effectively identical in appearance and functionality: one that is eBay's huge walled garden and a twin service that covers (if RapLeaf delivers on its ambition)rating information for pretty much everything else. Personally, I believe this *could* be a great big giant step for the ecommerce space.

Robert Leathern · 3 years ago

Part of the issue here is that if you have a general reputation system untethered to any kind of 'transaction' or verifiable action (like in the eBay example) you run the risk of rampant abuse. One interesting example is a company called "RepCheck" whose URL still works I think. Their idea was to prepopulate a database with addresses/names from phone book databases and then let anyone vouch for anyone else (this was 5+ years ago, an Internet 1.0 idea :-) ... with the attendant issues you could imagine. This could be a very cool application or idea, whether it's a company remains to be seen.

Matt Marshall · 3 years ago

Good point Robert. The more I think about it, the more the basis really has to be the "transaction." I think Auren may realize that, or at least he appreciates that -- so he is likely to go after partnerships to get this info.

ratingo.com · 3 years ago

Speaking about ratings...
Why don't we establish ratings for everything?
As an Internet user you, probably, have already tried to find ratings on some things which you consider to buy, use or get more information on. It may be services (hosting, design or movie rentals), public figures, consumer goods, articles or books, news, movies, beer, hotels, websites and much more.
You have, perhaps, seen thousands of fragmented websites, discussion forums, which force you to dig for the information even more.
With Ratingo you got one-stop shop, where you can find what people think (and why) about all you have been searching for before.

ratingo.com

Paul Williams - ceo of iKarma · 3 years ago

iKarma.com is designed to be used as a proactive tool that good business people can use to smooth the sales process. I?m not aware on anyone using it for dating (although I suppose it could be) Many other reputation systems seem to be focused on building a structure that we find tends to devolve into a complaint board. Most businesses never make much effort to capture the good word of mouth that they receive. The result of course is that eventually an unhappy customer comes along and posts a complaint on a blog or message board. This then becomes the only thing people find when they search. Every current solution has issues to deal with. iKarma.com is still in beta. But it would be foolish to wait till all the bugs are worked out. For most good business people, reputation management works today (as it always has) and can be used today to increase customer trust and generate more business.

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