With the partnership between A2 Hosting and RatePoint, a third party testimonial company, I was out searching for cool web tools that could work in conjunction with RatePoint. I came across a RatePoint Firefox plugin. The tool allows you to rate RatePoint companies directly from your browser and you never have to go to the RatePoint testimonial input page. It sounded useful and very convenient, so I decided to give it a try. I downloaded it, installed it and restarted my browser. I clicked the RatePoint button on my browser toolbar, but unfortunately I received a message that the plugin was no longer supported by RatePoint. The message was as follows:
“As of December 18th, 2007, RatePoint is no longer supporting the RatePoint People Powered Ratings service in order to focus on our RatePoint platform for online businesses and consumers. We appreciate your support during this transition, and hope that you will continue to use RatePoint services wherever you find us on the web. To check out the RatePoint Consumer Approval Program, click here.”
I will continue to look for supporting RatePoint tools, but for the meantime feel free to review A2 Hosting. The rating process is already very simple; I just thought I would try to make it even easier.
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Sorry to get you excited about the toolbar only to have it not work. You wouldn’t believe how difficult it is to get that stuff off the web once it’s there!
As we worked towards creating our business platform we initially started doing reviews and ratings of websites on the Internet. The toolbar was one way to submit these ratings. As our customer feedback platform readied for release, it didn’t fit as well with the model. RatePoint really requires businesses to proactively solicit feedback (like you’re doing here) as opposed to waiting for people to hit their website and drop them a review. As a result, the toolbar is toast for now! 
Great to see you excited about RatePoint!
