Well I’ve been exploring the online reputation scene a little more lately – RapLeaf and Jyte are two that definitely stand out.
From what I can see, RapLeaf is an independant point scoring system very similar EBay. Now this is all very old news I’m sure – RapLeaf has been around for a little while now, and plenty of people have blogged about it in the past. But the important thing for me is that this company will also play a very important part in the mechanics of my site.
Jyte is not so much a reputation site, but more related to claims and credibility. Rather than a bunch of my friends rating me as a person, friends and total strangers vote on a claim that I make. Very different slant.
I can now claim that “I am a good person” – and have 23 different people vouch for that. In this form, I can potentially publish this claim – similar to what my identity alone does on RapLeaf.
Of course, I can also claim that “I like to eat bananas”, and 12 people agree and 3 people disagree. Not sure what I would want to do with that – but this is not the point. The point is in the flexibility of the Jyte model. It’s all in the wording of the claim…
I’m very interested to see how Jyte handles growth. At the moment, there are only a couple of hundred claims out there. Yes, they have search, and there are some nifty filtering mechanisms you can you use to find claims that are interesting to you (e.g. via groups) – however I think the real power of this site would be to make a claim exportable or publishable. (JanRain, are you listenting 
I make a claim – my social circle votes – I publish. My claim now goes with me. It goes on my website, it gets attached to my emails.
And it goes with me, because it’s all based on OpenID!
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