It now says the current refund rate, platform-wide, is just below ten per cent, adding that in the U.S. "it's a bit lower" — although you'd expect that since it's a more recent market and refund rates started lower in Europe too).
Germany's largest union, IG Metall, runs a site where crowdworkers rate platforms on their pay and fairness, and crowdworker forums are growing.
Jane Hewitt, marketing manager of Ormsby Street, explains why the business should win the Startup of the Year category of the Guardian Small Business Showcase competition: We launched our flagship product, CreditHQ, a 'freemium' credit rating platform designed for small businesses, in January 2015.
Prior to MealPal, she had been the co-founder of ClassPass, the platform that let fitness, yoga and other work out enthusiasts to select classes on a flat-rate platform.
Deepinder Goyal said that he would not have been able to build Zomato, a restaurant-rating platform, if a direct competitor had been on a similar platform.
The goal, the company tells me, is to turn Trusted Opinion into a universal rating platform for all manner of goods and services.
He backed it up, too, launching initiatives like the "We are Made in NY" portal, BigApps, a contest for building apps on the city's application programming interface (API), and WiredNYC, a rating platform that for Internet speed in office buildings. .
We are going to need to update and expand our systems significantly over the next few years, well beyond the range of current projects like the new rating platform and EVDO, and it will become cost prohibitive for us to do that in-house on the timeframe the market will demand of us.
"The entire structure of Facebook is not set up as a news-sharing platform, but as a headline and image-rating platform," Caufield said.
Especially the Social Rating platforms could have been more specific about the dimensionality of ratings, which questions the meaningfulness of ratings, since it is safe to assume that not all participants have rated on the same scale.
