eBay vs. Rapleaf
Posted Monday, May 22nd, 2006, at 9:46 am Eastern by Mark Wallace
A few days old, but worth flagging: Michael Arrington posts the news that eBay has begun banning selective links to users’ reputation profiles on Rapleaf. I point it out mostly because I’m interested in reputation solutions for virtual spaces, but also because eBay has been a leader here, leveraging the network power of its user base into useful reputation information, and it’s a shame that the company would try to quash the use a similar system on its site.
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Not surprising. There doesn’t seem to be much distinct from the eBay service - eBay is fighting it just like it did the competing search engines.
If anything, eBay would be a better broad (beyond only eBay) reputation system than the other way around.