SoWeSay Puts Your Reputation in the Hands of Others

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007 by Andy Beal

SoWeSay Puts Your Reputation in the Hands of Others

One of the most common features you’ll find in social networks such as LinkedIn, is the ability to recommend others and effectively vouch for their credibility.

SoWeSay is a new social networking site that focuses purely on peer review and recommendation, allowing you to create profiles, rate and review anyone you know or encounter online and offline.

Ok, we’ll have to watch this one. On one hand, I like the idea of being able to share your opinion on others, but I don’t like the lack of accountability. You don’t have to prove you know the person, in order to share a review, and you can also post the review anonymously - both could open up the service to abuse.

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4 comments on “SoWeSay Puts Your Reputation in the Hands of Others”

Brian Chappell Says:

March 27th, 2007 at 2:19 pm

What do you know, who’s at the top.

Yoori Lee 180
Paul Lee 180

Think they know each other
Dean Says:

March 27th, 2007 at 2:39 pm

Frankly one of the things that bothers me about LinkedIn is that there is no opportunity for “negative” feedback. Have you ever read a recommendation on LinkedIn that didn’t make the person sound like they were the second coming of Bill Gates? It’s a mutual admiration society that makes any recommendation relatively worthless and suspect. Imagine if EBay only allow “positive” feedback.

I think this is a great way to add some balance and legitimacy to personal recommendations. Could it be abused? Of course; but no more than recommendations on LinkedIn are abused in the opposite way. In the end, any recommendation, good or bad, must be taken with an enormous grain of salt.
Greg Scowen Says:

March 28th, 2007 at 7:05 am

Great idea… until someone writes something that is defamation of character and you have to try and get it removed.

I get the concept, but I think it is opening another door to abusive content on the Internet. May be certain risk involved.
Jonix Says:

March 30th, 2007 at 1:28 am

itâ€™s a very good idea (at last!). But a bit dangerous. Has allways, a bad person, can bring down the â€œfame and fortuneâ€ of a person in a site like this one.
I hope that the authors control that very soon, not after the site grow.

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