Wow, managing your reputation. At first this sounds unreal, really big words. Do I have a reputation, an online reputation? And do I even have to manage it? Reflecting on it a little bit more it becomes obvious that everyone who is active on the web has a reputation there. All the social networks we have joined, blogs we author, comments we have made, all the links people can find if they search for us on their favourite search engine. Those links define our online reputation and hopefully it is a positive one.
myOn-ID is a recently launched application (still in beta, though) which aims to help users managing their online reputation. So how does it work? After registering with it myOn-ID searches for your name and shows all matches. You can decide if those links are really about you or about a namesake; you can also decide if you want the links to become part of your profile on myON-D. Links can be tagged, described, rated, and re-arranged. Actually this can take some time. More than 70 links have been found about me, though I have decided that I don’t want them all to be part of my profile.
If you know profile aggregators this sounds probably familiar to you. ClaimID comes to mind as well as German OpenID provider Meinguter.name which is also looking for links automatically.
Though myON-ID is taking this approach one step further. You have to add contacts (other users of myON-ID) who rate you, thus getting some positive feedback on your own reputation. There is even a reputation index, though mine is still zero. 
myOn-ID is a well designed application which does a decent job. It is not groundbreaking in any way but if you are into building an online reputation and you speak German (there is no international version available) this might be an application you want to test.
[via blognation Germany]
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