Welcome to User Rank

Hello and welcome,

I guess the idea of empowering users is not a new concept around these areas, so what is different between this blog and any other?

Well basically we aren't fighting for web freedom or any of the other noble ideas all we are trying to do is one simple thing, rank - us - the users of the web.

What? Why? Are you crazy? This is a violation of users privacy and totally not web 2.0 behavior! You suck, boo, go away!!!

Well the idea is simple, today, there are a few ranking tools around, but all of the big ones (Page Rank, Alexa, Compete, etc...) treat blogs and user based content sites, the same as any other site. Our claim is that, this is discrimination, a user can't be ranked on the same scale as a website that has a staff of dozens or hundreds.

Users are not one dimensional they have friends in Facebook and Mysapce, they have movies on YouTube, they have a Digg account, StumbleUpon and many more things that are not taken into account by search engines and there crawlers.

What we are suggesting is a ranking tool (feel free to suggest ideas how we should call it), that will unite all of a user different accounts and give him a user rank, his web mojo.

Why should a user agree to do so?
Well he might earn, exposure, recognition and who knows what.

We are two students and we started this blog as part of an assignment we are doing for our degree in Information Science, we hope that this blog will push forward our idea, if not we'll still have fun (and we might even get a degree).

Please share your thoughts with us about our idea, web discrimination, web freedom, user power and ranking or any other web related issue that pops in your mind. Don't worry about sounding like a fool, next to us you will probably sound like a genius.


Please give a hand and help us develop this idea, by sharing it with your friends and people that might be interested in it.

Thank you,
Rotem and Eitan.