Method and system for social network-enhanced endorsement services

A computer-implemented method for delegating access to endorsement lists associated with member accounts of an online community, at least a portion of the method being performed by a server-side computing device comprising at least one processor, the method comprising

• a. Associating a first endorsement list with a first member account, the first endorsement list comprising vendor identifiers and vendor information;
• b. Granting a second member account accessibility to the first endorsement list;
• and
• c. Denying accessibility to the first endorsement list by all member accounts not expressly authorized by an administrator of the first member account.

A system comprising:

• means to participate in an online community via a first account of the online community, wherein the online community maintains a plurality of user accounts;
• means to populate at least one referral record, the at least one referral record including a vendor identifier and an attribute associated with the vendor identifier, wherein the vendor identifier identifies a vendor;
• means to associate the at least one referral record with the first account and deny unprivileged access to the at least one referral record by the online community;
• and
• means to establish a privileged relationship between the first account and at least one other account (“friend account”) of the online community, wherein the friend account is enabled to access the at least one referral record.

A computer-implemented method comprising:

• a. Receiving a plurality of information regarding an entity via an electronically mediated social network, wherein each information is associated with a time indication;
• b. Deriving a quality parameter from each information at least partly on the basis of the time indication;
• c. Determining a geographic parameter of the entity;
• d. Deriving a evaluation result of the entity information at least partly on the basis of the quality indications and the geographic parameter.