whuffie

In his novel, set in the distant future where ‘scarcity economics’ no longer rules, whuffie is based around personal reputation, and is accrued when other people attribute something like ‘coolness’ to you, and add whuffie to your account.

Archive 2008-11-01 Ben Abraham 2008

In his novel, set in the distant future where ‘scarcity economics’ no longer rules, whuffie is based around personal reputation, and is accrued when other people attribute something like ‘coolness’ to you, and add whuffie to your account.

It is dark, you are likely to be eaten by a Zombie Ben Abraham 2008

The question now: how to tap the "whuffie" -- or influence -- of the site's most popular users.

In Brazil, Telefónica Bets on a Celebrity's 'Tweets' 2009

Generating whuffie is an ongoing effort — unless your project is over and done with, and you don’t intend to make more money from it ever again.

A Bland and Deadly Courtesy skzbrust 2008

Many readers here will be aware that I'm a fan of the notion of whuffie (borrowing from Cory Doctorow's Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom).

acidlabs 2008

Cory Doctorow  (or here) postulates kind of a trustworthiness currency called "whuffie".

Trust and reputation systems: redistributing power and influence 2010

A great fictional example of this is Cory Doctorow's "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom" wherin people get and give "whuffie" which is essentially their esteem rendered in a point system.

The Speculist: God and the Singularity, the Survey 2006

This functions as money in the basically post-Singularity world described. book is available for free download from Cory himself - google it - and there is a description of "whuffie" in wikipedia

The Speculist: God and the Singularity, the Survey 2006

In that book, all of life's necessities are free, so the currency, called "whuffie," is all based on reputation.

Recently Uploaded Slideshows BillSheridan 2010

The chart below explains the game theory of what really happens in "whuffie" type reputation systems:

broadstuff 2009