Web 2.0

We recently built a Reputation System facebook application. The use of Social networking sites has increased remarkably over the years and enables us to connect, keep in touch, share life experiences and also meet new people. Statistics show that Facebook has over 400 Million active users and at least 50 percent of them log on to Facebook in any given day. In addition an average user sends 8 friend requests per month. On the internet, when users meet new people, they have no idea about what kind of person he/she is. Thus it is hard to trust and easy to get deceived. A reputation system is hence required, to collect feedback about users from their friends so as to calculate a reputation score that can be shown on personal profiles. This reputation score can help identify the frauds from the general pool of users, which will allow transactions (non-monetary, e.g. sharing important information) over the internet to embrace a higher sense of assurance. Prominent reputation systems include Search (e.g. PageRank), Commerce (e.g. eBay, Epinions), Blogs (e.g. Blogger), Broad Reputation systems (e.g. Yelp) etc. A reputation system aggregates, calculates and maintains the reputation values for people, entities, organisations etc. The reputation value maintained by the reputation system can be used for making quick decisions.

Our Reputation System faceboook app maintains complete anonymity between the reputation score provider and the reputation score consumer. You can access the facebook app as well as embed it as part of your facebook profile. The app will work well with Firefox.

Go to http://apps.facebook.com/reputation-system/

1.Click on “Allow” to add the application.
2.Choose a friend to give feedback about. Click on “Click here to submit a score”
3.Answer the respective questions.
4.Add a few words in the comment.
5.Click on submit.