This works fairly well, however with open systems it could work much better if more systems were opened up.

Take ebay for instance. It would be fantastic if I could integrate my ebay feedback score ( 100% with 195 transactions over the last 12 months ) with the rest of my online reputation. If there was an open system so I could ask my clients to comment and leave feedback and that feedback would go into the same system as my ebay feedback it would give a much better picture of JTk’s reputation. Combine that with my linked in testimonials, other blog posts about me, my amazon profile, other web 2.0 type sites, etc. and you get a good picture of my online reputation.

Of course ebay is a closed system ( and therefore old school interweb ) so you have to screen scrape if you wanted to do anything with it’s data and they will probably sure you if you do. But it would be excellent if people coming to my site to do business with me could see comments from my ebay feedback like:

• great service and product
• Great ebayer, great product and service.
• Great seller fast shipping works great A++++
• EXCEPTIONAL COURTEOUS PERSON. S_M-O-O-T-H TRANSACTION
• good guy

But alas I had to cut and paste these and they won’t be integrated with other sources of opinions about me, nor will they be updated. So, I am wondering if open systems such as all of the 2.0 services popping up are the future or if these old established services will continue to dominate?

I know that there are services out there that try and act as reputation services, but until the mainstream sites opt in ( or until mainstream users don’t participate in closed systems ) they aren’t very useful. I don’t think it is a technology problem ( couldn’t ebay just give me an RSS feed of my feedback ) but it is a business decision to try and lock in users. With the recent performance of ebay’s stock and the palpable anger of a large segment of ebay power sellers with the recent changes in the terms maybe the auction giant has past it’s peak.

Yes, I am selling Wide World of Food on Ebay this month so that I can focus on the business at hand.

WWoF has a Google Page Rank 4 and you get the domain name, the content, the custom theme ( a $500 value ), and 6 months of free hosting! Get all the benefits of having a topical niche blog without the headache of start-up. This blog can be a great addition to a blog network, or a fantastic marketing tool if you have anything to do with the food industry. Or it can be a interesting hobby if you just love food

Check it out here.

Yes, the time has come, I am selling roxorblog as my professional life is changing and running an entertainment blog is not something that I can do at the moment and instead of letting it go I figured I would try and find a loving home for it.

Roxor Blog – http://www.roxorblog.com is for sale.
This is an established WordPress powered blog that has a Google Page Rank of 4 and a kick-butt original design. The winner of this auction will get the domain name, a second domain name with an alternative (leet) spelling, the original WordPress theme ( a $500 value ) and all the content in the blog.

You can pick up right where I have left off and run your own entertainment blog without having to start from scratch – all the hard start up work has been done for you.

One of the nice things about Roxor Blog is that you can collect a bunch of free swag from folks that want you to review their CD’s and DVD’s. View the Auction here.

Feedback score: 100|Positive feedback: 99.0%

99 out of 100 people were satisfied with my service.

Too bad that there is no universal internet ratings system that I could plug this 99% into….

I am auctioning off two nice external storage devices on ebay, bounce on over if you are interested.

Want your very own collectibles website? Well don’t start from scratch! We’ll sell you an established collectibles blog with tons of content, a one of a kind design, and established pagerank and traffic.

The site uses WordPress so it is simple to run the site ( you don’t need to know html ) and it is easily portable – we’ll move it from our server to yours once payment is complete.

Some great stuff, like: Los Lonely Boys, John Lennon Collection, Eric Clapton, Peter Cincotti, Marc Broussard, Zepplin, The Police Live, and a much much more. There is a Issac Hayes 2 Disc Set that has a DVD of WattsStax included.