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This idea has been around in science fiction for a while. Note especially Charlie Stross' "Accelerando" and its worldwide reputation markets. You're talking abo
by jgoodleaf 16y ago
This idea has been around in science fiction for a while. Note especially Charlie Stross' "Accelerando" and its worldwide reputation markets. You're talking about a reputation server of sorts.
It's an excellent idea and actually marketable I think. But reputation servers would need to be highly interconnectable and data needs to be easy to migrate. I wonder if diaspora + openid would get us more than halfway there...
- tomcampbell 16y agoDiaspora won't because it doesn't emphasize reputation stats. OpenID doesn't either. OpenID is good for a site knowing you can log in, but not for knowing whether the last 3 times you sold something you didn't follow through, or that the last 6 times you bought things you paid promptly. I had somehow missed "Accelerando" and like Stross, so thanks for that one.
- jgoodleaf 16y agoAccelerando is freely downloadable. Google it. (It's a legit copy, not pirated.) It's not high art. Like most Stross books, the writing is uneven and the character development is close to nil. But the ideas are breathtaking, and make the book worth a look. I meant, by the way, that diaspora might provide a good platform on which to build reputation, and OpenID might provide the means to uniquely identify a single human so that a reputation can follow him or her around. But I don't know much about either project, so I could be wrong.