What do Amazon's product reviews, eBay's feedback score system, Slashdot's Kharma System, and Xbox Live's Achievements have in common? They're all examplesof successful reputation systems that enable consumer websites to effectivelymanage and present user contributions. With this book, you'll learn how a reputation system can enhance your business, and what it takes to design and develop one of your own. F. Randall Randy Farmer has been creating online community systems for over 30 years, and has co-invented many of the basic structures for both virtual worlds and social software. His accomplishments include numerous industry firsts (such as the first virtual world, the first avatars, and the first online marketplace). Randy worked as the community strategic analyst for Yahoo!, advising Yahoo properties on construction of their online communities. Randy was the principal designer of Yahoo's global reputation platform and the reputation models that were deployed on it. Bryce Glass is a Sr. Interaction Designer at Yahoo! Inc, and has worked on Internet community products andplatforms for most of the past 10 years, with some of the Internet's best-known brands (Netscape, America Online and Yahoo!).
- ISBN: 978-0-596-15979-5
- Editorial: O'Reilly
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 400
- Fecha Publicación: 31/03/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés