More Rapleaf and eBay

Last week, Mike Arrington reported that eBay has begun “selectively removing listings from sellers who point to their Rapleaf reputation profilesthat link to RapLeaf.” RapLeaf is one of Opinity’s partners, a company that wants to create a portable standard for reputation.

Here’s a conversation between Bill Washburn and me that begins by discussing the relationship between eBay and RapLeaf but moves on to a more general discussion of why and how reputation is important online and how eBay factors into that importance.

Download BillAndTomOnRapleafEbay.mp3