We’re excited to announce another great partner here at Rapleaf! Cartfly is a cool service that lets anyone create their own branded store and embed it in social networks, blogs, and websites.

Of course, what would a store be without some customer feedback and testimonials? They’ve gone ahead and integrated Rapleaf reputation into their embedded stores, and I must say, its one of the coolest implementations I have seen yet of our API. They use a sleek flash interface to seamlessly display ratings and reputation for their sellers. You need to see it to believe it.

We’re definitely psyched to see a partner use Rapleaf reputation in such a cool way, and we look forward to seeing all the creative stores that Cartfly users will generate. And Cartfly is already one step closer towards changing the world by adding reputation into their commerce platform!

It’s a great feeling when we hear about people using Rapleaf in positive ways that increase trust in their everyday dealings.

A neat example is one of our own Rapleaf employees, Greg Fodor.

Greg is relocating in the city, and he has to find a roommate to live with. Obviously he would want to learn about these people before actually taking the risk of committing to live with them.

Naturally, Greg searched these people’s email addresses on Rapleaf, and he was instantly able to learn a whole bunch about the person. The process made him more comfortable with approaching a potential roommate, as they became less of a stranger and Greg felt confident in their identity.

We hope that Greg ends up with an awesome living situation, and we’re excited that Rapleaf was able to help him out. Researching potential roommates is just one of the many situations that we envision Rapleaf will be used for to add more trust to the world.

John Doerr is one of the most famous venture capitalists in the world. He’s backed a handful of successful companies, including Compaq, Amazon, Google, Sun, Netscape, Palm, and others. He is known for his hard work and acute ability to spot a future great company. He also has a Friendster page and a MySpace page.

John Doerr – on social networks? You bet! We found this out by typing Doerr’s email address into Rapleaf (you will need to know his email address to try this at home) and out pop’s John Doerr’s Rapleaf profile, with links to his social network profiles.

His MySpace page is pretty light…He last logged in on Aug 5, 2006 and his sole friend is everyone’s favorite social networker, Tom. However, Doerr’s Friendster page is very complete (probably because he backed Friendster as well). On Friendster, you can see he’s 56, married, and likes the book “Good to Great” - one of my favorites too.

This shows the power of Rapleaf … just type someone’s email address in and you’ll find some treasured reputation related information on them. Other Silicon Valley people on Rapleaf include Reid Hoffman, Michael Arrington, Om Malik, and millions of others.

One of the best uses of Rapleaf is learning about what someone likes and often times, you find something that you have in common with that person. This is great for business, friendship, or even just building your trust in someone by knowing what their interests are. A new feature we’ve unveiled at Rapleaf is displaying Amazon Wishlist links on profiles, which is designed to provide exactly that kind of information for a person.

Look someone up on Rapleaf and if they have an Amazon Wishlist, you can click right through to view their interests. For example, I didn’t know that one of our co-founders, Vivek, is a fan of the television show 24. He’s also interested in buying the book The Long Tail – which I have already read. I found this information from his Wishlist - so next time I see Vivek around the office, I’m going to tell him how great of a book The Long Tail was or ask him what he thinks of Jack Bauer.

We hope to see the Amazon Wishlist feature become another great addition to Rapleaf’s online reputation profiles!

We’re looking for an outstanding software engineering intern (paid position) to join the Rapleaf team this fall. If you’ve ever dreamed about living in the luxury of a fully-stocked kitchen, now is your chance. As an added bonus, you’ll be working with some of the best software engineers in the industry and get valuable experience in a startup. Position specs are below. Also we’re offering a $250 referral bonus if we hire an intern you referred.

Rapleaf is looking for an amazing computer science/engineering intern!

Rapleaf (www.rapleaf.com) is an internet startup backed by some of the most well-known investors in Silicon Valley. We’re in downtown San Francisco, CA near all the best lunch and dinner spots. Very accessible via BART, bus, and other public transportation.

We have 11 people (7 being hard-core engineers) building game-changing technology…we’ll likely file 6-10 patents this year.

So get hands-on, industry experience by taking the fall semester/quarters off and work here at Rapleaf (we’ll also consider local candidates who would like to work part-time while in school).

Qualifications:

- Currently an undergrad or grad student
- Amazing coder who takes no prisoners. Master of all things Internet. One of the best coders.
- Desire to learn new languages. We use Ruby on Rails….you can pick this up quickly.
- Intensely driven and proactive person
- Quick learner and real doer. Err on execution over strategy.
- Likeable person who garners respect on and off the job.
- Thrive on chaos, risk, and uncertainty.
- Should be easy to get along with, nice, fun, smart, ethical, and low-maintenance.
- Want to spend your time learning from some of the best SW engineers in the industry.
- Strong desire to build a more ethical society.

Role:
- Help build out Rapleaf’s next set of ground-breaking features.
- Build algorithms to normalize data on over a hundred million people.
- Solve super complex engineering problems no one else in the world is working on.
- Change the world and make it more profitable to be ethical.

Location:
- Downtown San Francisco, CA (SOMA)

Compensation:
- This is a paid internship. Pay based on whether you are full-time or part-time.

Additional perks:
- Kitchen stocked with food
- Flexible hours around your class schedule (if local)
- Will fly you out to the Bay Area (if non-local)
- School credit also possible

At Rapleaf, we’re only looking for people that really want to change the world.

If interested, please email jobs@rapleaf.com. If you know a friend who may be interested in this internship, we also offer a $250 referral award.