Appendix B. Related Resources
There are many readings on the broad topic of reputation systems. We list a few here and encourage readers who have additional resources to contribute or want to read the most up-to-date list to visit this book’s website at http://buildingreputation.com.
Further Reading
The Web contains thousands of white papers and blog postings related to specific reputation issues, such as ratings bias and abusing karma. The list here is a representative sample. We maintain an updated, comprehensive list on their Delicious bookmarks: http://delicious.com/frandallfarmer/reputation and http://delicious.com/soldierant/reputation.
A Framework for Building Reputation Systems, by Phillip J. Windley, Ph.D., Kevin Tew, Devlin Daley, dept. of computer science Brigham Young University. One of the few papers that proposes a platform approach to reputation systems.
Designing Social Interfaces, by Christian Crumlish and Erin Malone from O’Reilly and Yahoo! Press. It covers not only the reputation patterns, but social patterns of all types—a definite companion for our book.
“Designing Your Reputation System,” a slideshow presentation by Bryce Glass, initially presented before we started on this: book.
“Reputation As Property in Virtual Economies,” by Joseph Blocher, discusses the idea that online reputation may become real-world property.
The Reputation Pattern Library at the Yahoo! Developer Network, where some of our thoughts were first refined into clear patterns.
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