Web Apps rating and reviews

A feature from apps stores that users and developers alike are relying
on is the ability to read and write reviews on apps users install.

Clearly the Web has a very strong history in letting users rate and
review stuff, and search engines are increasingly able to serve as
super-aggregator of that data (through e.g. Schema.org vocabularies, or
GoodRelations).

It's not clear to me that much is missing here in terms of underlying
infrastructure; in other words, it feels to me that once there is a
strong demand for Web apps, there will be greater incentive for sites to
serve as review boards for Web apps, and for search engines to find and
expose that data.

It might be worth looking at whether existing searchable vocabularies in
this space address sufficiently well (Web) apps.

Any volunteer? Any other perspective on whether this space needs more
attention?

Dom

Received on Thursday, 7 March 2013 10:59:15 UTC