Linkies

[featherynscale]

First up, an 'internet reputation engine' - http://www.rapleaf.com
These folks compile 'ratings' on a person behind an email address, based on personal recommendations, length of stable time with an address, buy/sell/trade/whatnot transactions, and some other stuff which is less clear to me. Interesting concept, unsure how it works. Have emailed a Dan and asked if there's a list available of where they're compiling data from. Might be a longer post on this later, for now, just playing with it. So you could go and tell them if you think I'm trustworthy or not, if you're so inclined. (This is me, not putting up a poll on whether or not people think I'm trustworthy.)

Second, http://www.upscoop.com -- a social network compiler from the same folks. Will search your email contacts or a manually input list and tell you if those addresses are registered to any number of websites. Yep. If you're an email contact for me, I now know all your dirty social networking secrets (i.e. whether or not you are on MySpace).

Third, unrelated to the other two: Beyond Countless Doorways, a planar-travel sourcebook from some of the folks who wrote Planescape, Back In The Day. If you've played in one of my D&D games, you may be aware that I have a planar travel fetish (in the clinical sense -- my brain doesn't seem to be able to get it up for campaign design unless there's a possibility for planehopping in there somewhere). So I'm interested in acquiring this little item for furthering player torment. Perhaps I'll buy it for myself as a birthday present.

Comments

rapleaf

[rfunk.livejournal.com]

Odd what rapleaf knows and doesn't know about me. It finds my myspace better than I do (I've managed to get into it exactly twice), and gets most of its info about me there, including my last login date which gets translated into when my address came into existence. It finds my flickr and gets my occupation from there. But although the flickr (and not myspace) links to my web site, neither lists my email address publicly as far as I can see. This makes me also wonder about how they get their info, especially since they don't seem to find my LJ.

You'd think they'd use Google and learn that my address predates this year. Maybe even notice my PGP key, since rapleaf's trust model seems to be similar to PGP's.

Re: rapleaf

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

It also seems to add/change information over time -- I wrote earlier that it was missing some stuff on me, and had my email info incorrect, but a day later, the stuff that I would think would show up mostly did, and my email date was correct again. Perhaps it's cross-checking its info? That would be clever.