Tuesday, February 19, 2008

People Ratings

Reza Behforooz from Seattle (who grew up in four different countries, and works for Google Kirkland for over three years) in his blog writes:

I love reputation based systems like eBay and wikipedia. It’s a good way to build trust and fight spam. I personally wish there was an easy way for people to have a publicly visible reputation that was influenced by anyone. Imagine a world where people could easily point their cell phone at you and give you a plus or a minus vote. If you let someone merge in, the other driver can give you a small star. If you stop and help someone with a flat tire, you might get lots of stars. If you cut people off or cheat on the carpool lane, you get bad karma. That’s similar to PageRank. We all look at reviews for movies, restaurants, books, hotels, etc. And we look at the star rating on youtube, netflix, etc. Why not have it for people?

[Via Niniane. Photo source CC-licensed by Brian.]

People Ratings by Philipp Lenssen | Comments (19)

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