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Why the Klout Sale is Bad News for Social Scoring, But Great News for...
In the last couple of days, it was announced that social customer experience company Lithium Technologies would be acquiring social scoring platform Klout for a figure reputed to be around $100...
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Make Yourself An Influencer By Playing The Klout +K Game
A lot of people continue to talk about Klout and whether it’s something to take note of, or simply another tool that’s fun to use but doesn’t offer real value. Personally, I’m in the second camp....
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Enough With The Opt-Out BS, Klout
Klout sucks. Not because of what they’re trying to do, in measuring your online influence (although I’ll be the first to admit I’m not a fan of that approach for a number of reasons). Nor do they suck...
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A Letter to Joe Fernandez of Klout
A couple of months back, I wrote about online influence tool Klout, and their approach to how they build their membership (they use opt-out profiling, versus the more widely-used opt-in). The main...
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A Klout Upside the Head
This is a guest post by Bob LeDrew. I’ve been an observer of things Klouty for a while now. But I’ve been darned if I could work up a lot of excitement over it, positive OR negative. Until now. I got...
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Is Klout Using Our Family to Violate Our Privacy?
First, apologies to anyone suffering Klout burnout here – but sometimes a topic has more than just a simple viewpoint. Especially when that topic is something like online privacy. And that privacy has...
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A Very Short Message to the Idiots at Klout
Dear Klout – I have uninstalled your service and blocked your access to my info, period. And yet you’re still trying to get friends to invite me to your crud, never mind invading my sidebar with your...
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If @Klout is Fixed, Why Are They Profiling an 11-Year Old Kid?
Two days ago, social influence tool Klout published a blog post on how they had updated their algorithms to answer critics of their service. From the post: Today, we’re introducing some of the most...
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Why The Lithium Deal Highlights Klout’s Failings, But Is Good News for...
In the last couple of days, it was announced that social customer experience company Lithium Technologies would be acquiring social scoring platform Klout for a figure reputed to be around $100...
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