The Progress Bar

The Progress Bar read by people interested in emerging Internet marketing, technology, social media, reputation, virtual environments, blogs, the Boston Internet scene and much more. If you like what you see you should subscribe to my RSS feed or via email in the sidebar. Thanks for visiting!If you follow the reputation space in any way, [...]

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Rapleaf continues to add features and gain traction after seemingly beating out several other reputation tracking systems. What services do you use to track your reputation?

Thousands of sites are building address book importers so their users can find or invite their friends – the problem is that you have to buy the code to do [...]

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From the Rapleaf team:
We wanted to let you know that the Rapleaf API v2 is now available to all Rapleaf partners.
The Rapleaf API v2 allows you to go beyond reputation information and query for social network profiles, name, age, gender, location, and more.
This is all made available via the person resource, which you can learn [...]

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Rapleaf Updates reputation widgets (login required).
Technorati introduces Topics. The hunt for a revenue stream continues. There are at least three people pitching better blog categorization last night.
Another reason to buy an iPhone, Edit your Movable Type blog from your iPhone.

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Apologies for the 3.0 moniker, but blog readers are brutally selective when searching for interesting headlines.
I’ve been thinking a lot more about  identity, attention and reputation. These reoccurring themes keep popping up in my consulting work and the blogosphere has no shortage of pundits who opine about the role of identity from time to time.
I [...]

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Phil Windley wrote up the notes for our Principles of Reputation open space meeting at the Identity Mashup conference.

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Rapleaf has announced that Hans Blaauw in Holland has built a Rapleaf plug-in for Skype. This Skype addon allows you to one click rate a friend/buyer or seller and display the reputation icon in your Skype avatar. Link to 5.3 MB download via Skypeteer.

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Today I read an article on Edge.org, the topic being why Movie Director Virtual Reality Pioneer Jaron Lanier feels that Wikipedia is dangerous. (Read the story to see why I struck Movie Director.)
Before I say anything I have to give a shout out to Jaron, who I met briefly at the Omega Institue in [...]

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According to Silicon Beat, e-commerce reputation service Rapleaf has raised $1 million dollars. Congrats to Auren and the team. The company has struck a chord, especially when you consider that eBay banned Rapleaf within weeks of launching. As I have said previously, Rapleaf is a data provider/node which could also be categorized as an aggregator/hub. [...]

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Recently I responded to an iKarma press release which outlines some of the new features found at the Identity Aggregator.
Paul Williams, CEO of iKarma, responded with a lengthy comment, going into considerable detail about each new feature and how each of the aggregators, mainly Opinity, iKarma and to some extent Trufina, are shifting market [...]

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