Today I had my graduation presentation but I didn’t made it yet, they gave me an extra two weeks to work on it. Their main critic was that my project needed more focus.. Which brought me with some new problems with reputation systems, think with me,

Let’s say I give it focus, and I create a jobsite for freelancers. Some things will change, friends won’t be willing anymore to give comments on other friends, because if they are positive, they might lose their opportunity to get a job to one of their friends that they just gave some high rations on a particular field. So the friend-friend rating won’t work anymore.

What is brings in return is the possibilities to rate clients, on subject like, fast payment, clear briefing etc. And the client can rate the freelancer in return on fast delivery and good work. So for a new job or new clients both sides can see faster which persons or companies to take. And there will probably come some new balance in payment, companies with a good name, will be able to pay less, because freelancers are more likely to work for them because of their good name. And freelancers with a high reputation will be able to ask more for their work because of their good reputation. And than? Companies with a low reputation will be willing to pay more or less for a freelancer with a high reputation than a company with a high reputation might do? Or…

I’m sure it will an addition to sites like freelance.nl or perhaps even linkedin but I have the feeling that my project might lose some “hey lets make the world a better place” feeling

Don’t know yet, I hope I can think of a social use for the Reputator system, cause otherwise I might focus myself on Freelancers. They could use some more positive feeling. getafreelancer.com, guru.com, sologig.com (list from del.icio.us)

at 9rules.com i found some more (better looking) links as 37signals and programmer meets designer
Any other focus subjects are appreciated, they have to have something with people exchanging things (like objects, or services) and there has to be some reason to show good behavior for future reasons (like more money, more respect, more trust)

Things that are already there are:

Products ebay.com
Services linkedin.com
borrow objects borrowme.com

Or an other idea is young kids that help older people for a little money.. They could give the seniors a good reputation score for being friendly and give a good pay. And the seniors could give the juniors a good reputation score on being polite and doing a good job. Mixed with some local search possibilities this will finally give the answer on where do I find someone who washes my car here in the neighborhood.