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Rapleaf adds 'Hover and Discover'

The online reputation site Rapleaf provides a way for peers and previous business associates to contribute to an online reputation rating--the sort of thing the Better Business Bureau would've thought of if only they'd had a Web 2.0 nerd on staff. But since we first took a look at Rapleaf, the fellas from the Bay Area have added a new feature, something called "Hover and Discover".

When you hover over a Rapleaf attribute with the mouse pointer, Rapleaf will now show you where it got the information that makes up an element in your Rapleaf rating--whether it was gleaned from a social networking site such as MySpace or provided by a peer who claims to know you. Yeah, all these factors contribute to Rapleaf's estimation of your reputation, and now you can tell where the info actually came from. Useful... especially if Rapleaf got some detail wrong about you!

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This 2.0 site lets you check folks' reputations

In urban slang, a rap sheet is defined as a history of criminal behavior. But online, a rap leaf is something entirely different. RapLeaf lets you keep tabs on your reputation and contribute to the online reputation of others. Ever use eBay to rate a seller or buyer? It's kind of like that, except no auctions.

Like eBay, RapLeaf's rating system includes a positive percentage and an overall rating number. The overall rating purports to include factors from social networking sites such as MySpace and is representative of more than just other RapLeaf user's feedback. There appears to be no upper-limit to this figure.

So how useful is this, considering we already have an accurate credit rating system and personal criminal history already available in an online search? We like the RapLeaf idea because it's somewhat self-monitoring like any good social site, and because it's independent of any single commerce site. RapLeaf is nearly about to release their API, too. So commerce site operators will be able to plug in the reputation tools easily. Now why didn't the stodgy old-schoolers at the Better Business Bureau think of something like this?

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