Abstract: A fitness enabling and motivating service provides an online resource for assisting users in staying physically fit. The service enables users to locate well-matched partners for fitness activities. The service may facilitate communications between participants in fitness activities. The service may also enable each user to maintain an online schedule of fitness activities. Fitness activities may be scheduled and arranged via the server.

Abstract: A reputation/trust service provides reputation information to requesting clients. The reputation/trust service may obtain remuneration in response to providing the reputation data. The reputation/trust service may be automated and may support on-line access via a network, such as a computer network or a telecommunications network. The reputation/trust service is especially well adapted for use on the Internet. The reputation/trust service may provide reputation information for various types of parties, including but not limited to persons, groups of persons, organizations and companies. Reputation data may be held for multiple traits of any given party. Reputation data may be updated and validated on an ongoing basis.

Abstract: In vehicles provided for an inquiring party to submit an inquiry via a communication system to an appropriate responding party that attends to the inquiry in response for receiving emuneration, such as a monetary reward. For example, a first party may use the vehicle to submit an email inquiry that is matched to the appropriate responding party that then generates a response and receives a monetary credit for generating a response. One example is a prominent businessman who agrees to respond to business proposals via email in exchange for payment. Software may be provided in the system to facilitate the advertisement of individuals who will respond to inquiries and the cost for such inquiries.