Eugene Eric Kim wrote, presumed copyright: (01)
> What differentiates Xpertweb from other reputation systems?
>
> Reputation systems are an important element of online communities. I
> think it would be valuable to compare and contrast them here, as well
> as to establish a framework for evaluating these systems. Two systems
> of which I'm aware and to which we have some connections are:
>
> * Affero (http://www.affero.com/)
>
> * Friendly Favors (http://www.friendlyfavors.org/ = http://www.favors.org (02)
Eugene, thank you very much for alerting me to Affero. Basically, here
are the differences of the reputation systems: (03)
Friendly Favors is closed, centralized, by-invitation-only, for knowing
that "this is a person who I would take into my home as a visitor" or
otherwise share contacts, resources. (04)
Affero is open, centralized, a way to support and give back to the open
source software community by making it easy to reward those who help you
by rating them favorably, and by donating to causes they support, which
might include open source software projects. (05)
XpertWeb is open, decentralized, peer-to-peer, for a provider to offer
services to a client such that they need not pay if they are not
satisfied, but will at least openly rate the service on a scale of 0% to
100% satisfaction, as part of a publicly documented reputation system.
Grades of 85% to 100% require payment in full, 50% to 84% payment
proportionately, 0% to 49% no payment. There is also a system for
distributing 10% to a chain of mentors on either side. (06)
In other words, of the three, XpertWeb is the one that is for "work for
hire", although it can also be used for "work for free" as a way of
building your reputation. (07)
Another difference is that Friendly Favors and Affero are both
up-and-running, whereas the online XpertWeb is in development. Although
an off-line XpertWeb has been working for some time in a sales
outsourcing environment. (08)
I've set up a page at the KMWiki:
http://www.voght.com/cgi-bin/pywiki?XpertWeb (09)
A key technological issue for XpertWeb is how to set it up peer-to-peer,
for example, how to maintain duplicate directories at the provider's and
client's websites. (It seems to be assumed that they have such). (010)
What do we know about XML peer-to-peer technologies and methodologies?
Also, we could use help on open source technologies for bank payments,
authorization, identity management, etc. Bala Pillai suggested to check
out http://www.openmoney.org (011)
More about the other reputation systems: (012)
Friendly Favors, http://www.favors.org, is a gift economy networking
system that is private and by invitation only. It's purpose is to share
know-how, contacts, resources and report generosity and encourage good
will. For example, the system helps people build the trust to stay at
each other's homes as they travel around the world. There are mechanisms
for establishing identity and rating reputation. Owen Davis is a key
figure, see also www.identitycommons.net
http://www.favors.org (013)
Thank you to Eric Eugene Kim for alerting us to http://www.affero.org ,
a system by which people can thank each other for help received by
rating their work, building their reputation, and making donations to
causes they support. When you register, you get a unique URL that you
can include in your emails, etc. to encourage such interaction with you.
The software is open source. The business model, if any, seems at yet
unclear.
http://www.affero.com/ (014)
Henri Poole wanted an open reputation system to organize funding for
software for the commons. He organized a team
http://www.affero.com/cat.html and there is news and a newsletter
http://www.affero.com/can.html Affero software uses PHP, PostgreSQL, and
Smarty. The Affero General Public License is based on the GPL with just
a clause added to deal with use of software over a network, to respect
functionality for transfering source code across the network.
http://www.affero.org/oagpl.html
http://www.affero.org/oa.html (015)
Thank you to all for helping! (016)
Andrius (017)
Andrius Kulikauskas
Minciu Sodas
http://www.ms.lt
ms@ms.lt
+370 (5) 2645950
Vilnius, Lithuania (018)
http://www.primarilypublicdomain.org/letter/ (019)
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