Tag: REPUTATION

Third-party services have been experimenting with various ways of measuring Twitter reputation for some time now, but it turns out that Twitter has its own internal scoring system, and every user has an official reputation score. Twitter hasn't made the algorithm -- or the scores themselves -- public, but former CEO Evan Williams told the Web 2.0 Summit that the scores factor into Twitter's "Who ...

Open-source software is everywhere, and developers use it to speed up their development on a regular basis. This is as it should be, for the most part, assuming the developers follow the licensing for whatever open-source software (OSS) they use. Along with licensing, the open-source community is, probably rightly so, very focused on attributing credit correctly. Considering that most OSS ...

The online reputation site Rapleaf provides a way for peers and previous business associates to contribute to an online reputation rating--the sort of thing the Better Business Bureau would've thought of if only they'd had a Web 2.0 nerd on staff. But since we first took a look at Rapleaf, the fellas from the Bay Area have added a new feature, something called "Hover and Discover". When you hover ...

In urban slang, a rap sheet is defined as a history of criminal behavior. But online, a rap leaf is something entirely different. RapLeaf lets you keep tabs on your reputation and contribute to the online reputation of others. Ever use eBay to rate a seller or buyer? It's kind of like that, except no auctions. Like eBay, RapLeaf's rating system includes a positive percentage and an overall rating ...