Klout Adds Blogger, Tumblr, Instagram, Flickr And Last.fm To Measure Social Influence
Klout, a startup that measures influence on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, and most recently Foursquare, is adding more services today, totaling 10 different ways to measure your social influence on the web. Klout is adding five new networks—Blogger, Tumblr, Flickr, Instagram and Last.fm, allowing Klout users to add their influence on these networks to their [...]
Read MoreTech Week in Review 6-3-2011
Samsung and Apple Trade Prototypes Apple filed suit against Samsung a while back, saying that Samsung is basically biting Apple’s style with their line of Android phones and tablets. As part of this suit, Apple demanded to see pre-production samples of the upcoming Droid Charge, Infuse 4G, Galaxy S II, and Galaxy Tab 10.1 and [...]
Read MoreTWTRCON SF Focuses on Analytics, Influence
TWTRCON SF was a devotional to all things related to the microblogging site and proof that just about every sector–from tech to nonprofit–is still figuring out how to make money toward their own bottom line even as Twitter increases its own. The one day conference at San Francisco’s Hotel Nikko attracted leaders and experts in [...]
Read MoreFast Company Confuses Network Marketing with Influence
Fast Company has set up a contest, The Influence Project, to find out who the most influential people on the Internet are. You would think this would involve fancy math and algorithms to measure the size of the competitors’ networks, track the reach of their voice across those networks, and figuring out if they can [...]
Read MoreKlout to Launch Facebird to Leverage Facebook Interests
Klout, the gold standard as far as measuring influence on Twitter, will begin branching out from Twitter by launching the Facebird experiment later today. Facebird will be available the Klout Labs segment of the site. Klout has come a long way since we first covered it back in 2008. The site is much more polished [...]
Read MoreTwitter To Rank Search Results By Popularity
According to Twitter Developer Advocate Taylor Singletary, Twitter will begin to order search results according to how popular each tweet is, rather than how recent the tweet is. Singletary says, “This is a beta project, but an important first step to surface the most popular tweets for users searching Twitter” in a message to the Developer [...]
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