I loved the Internet boom. I can't imagine there ever being a more exciting time in history. In 1989 the brokerage firm I worked for needed someone to fly to Silicon Valley and check out a company called Topologix. Topologix was a start-up that made parallel processing boards for Sun Microsystems workstations. This was cutting edge technology at the time. I just happened to be a rookie stockbroker at the time at a firm that wanted to to do their IPO. Being a notoriously bad speller with hand writing that looks more like chicken scratches, I had purchased a fancy Smith Corona electric typewriter with a green preview screen that looked almost like a computer. Since I was the only employee at the firm with a "computer", someone decided that I should fly to Mountain View and visit Topologix. When I got back to Florida, I bought my first computer. It was a Zeos with half a meg of RAM and a 10 meg hard drive. It was a beauty. Someone even asked me what I was going to do with all that power! LOL
The 90's were fantastic years, and I loved watching the birth of the Internet. When I loaded AOL that came with it's own GEOS Graphical Operating System I thought it was the most beautiful thing I knew the next few years were going to be exciting time for connecting people and ideas. When the bubble burst at the end of that marvelous decade I thought I might never see such an exciting time again during my lifetime. So I hope you will forgive me if I get a tear in my eye when I read articles like this one:
Life is sweet and it's good to be working at a start-up again! I'm ready for Boom 2.0.
What happens if given human nature someone wants to defame your character by posting ficticious or false information about one's self or one's company? Is there an arbritation board to remove false information?
Posted by: Bart Dorst | April 26, 2006 at 05:54 PM
iKarma has a challenge and response system, and users also have the ability to comment on any review. Just like on the internet in general, there is nothing to stop anyone from posting false of fictitious information about anyone. But on iKarma you can limit them from posting more than once, and you can challenge them and add your side of the story. In the end, online reputation is just like regular reputation, no one is going to believe the words of a few chronic complainers when put into the context of comments by all your other happy customers. Why let fear of an unjustified bad review keep you from reaping the rewards of building a strong reputation?
Posted by: Paul Williams - ceo - iKarma.com | May 04, 2006 at 03:10 AM