A stormy brain day came with four outcomes

1. A social freelance site

In style of linkedin meets programmer meets designer with a mix of community..

A jobsite for freelancers. Friends won’t probably be willing to give comments on other friends, because if they are positive, they might lose their opportunity to get a job for their self’s.

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.

2. A social weblogguide

Thanks to Robert in the comments I reminded my own writings about weblogs (and some research too) About trust in the blogosphere. Martin pointed a post about how to measure a blog’s success, but it has also some point about how to trust a blogger.

A social version of 9rules

The positive things would be, you can find easily the most reputated blogger on a subject you are interested in. And a blogger can get some feedback on the overall quality of his work with out having to beg for compliments.

The negative thing I could think of, is that if you have a popular blog that is read by thousands that your score will be high on any subject, no matter if you are really good about it or not.. Perhaps that can be solved by adding some categories.

So how will it look than? At Reputator you can make a profile, where you can add some personalia and give some posts or columns you consider to be good (like where the timeline is now). Others can discuss the quality of your articles, and can point you to other articles that are also good, but you forget about.

Where there are reputation area’s now, there could be blog subjects, where there is still voting possible on the quality of the writings on these subjects.

And because there is no direct money involved, friends and fans could still help you, without damaging their own position.

3. A social social guide

Closer to my first intentions “make the world a saver and more trustworthy place” I could give more focus on people that are conversation online. But since the biggest problems seem to be in social network where 14 year old girls can’t trust old man (you should really see the movie Hard Candy about this subject) So yes I like this subject, but there don’t seem to be real problems for me to solve there.

A variation about this should be make a demo on how Whuffie could be operated now (what Reputator already almost is) But since the feedback that I got back, the world isn’t ready to face Whuffie yet, perhaps in ten years time. (Don’t say I haven’t told you about it)

4. Noting yet