Confidence is a central notion in an interacting and collaborative world. Ebay and Amazon have been knowing it for long, since they allow their members to evaluate one another.

Venyo aims at valorizing the trust people put in you on the net. Your readers can vote and evaluate whatever you publish on the web. If everyone finds what you write is interesting you will get a good “trust rating”. Voters may also associate their vote with a tag in order to say on with subjects they find you’re relevant. All thoses datas are merged to compute a global index, the Vindex.

This backs up my analysis. Confidence and reputation will be essential in virtual communities. That’s not because a community is virtual that it doesn’t have real impacts in terms of business, jobs…)

It seems to be a digg-like in an “ego version” where results are shown not by item published by publisher. The difference is you give a rating instead of having the choice between clicking…or not. I also appreciate the note is balanced depending on the voter’s own rating on the considered subject.

I only that even if the principle is relevant we can’t keep on going with hundreds of digg-like or reputation managers : one for the post’s quality, another to rate the author, a third to bookmark…we’ll spend our time clicking and the risk is to become fed up with all that an give up all those social practices. I don’t even think of debates about all those service’s credibility…”I’m ranked A+ on …..” “I’m only B on….but being B there is better thant A+ on the other service….”. You say ridiculous ?

And what about you ? Would you sign in such a service ? Do you fin all those “reputation managers” credibles ?