Klout -- one of a number of services that are trying to measure influence in social networks such as Facebook and Twitter -- has closed an $8.5-million funding round from Silicon Valley powerhouse Kleiner Perkins, and adding Kleiner partner Bing Gordon to its board of directors.…
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What If You Were Paid Based on Your Klout Score?
Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff says the company tracks activity on Chatter, its internal Twitter-style social network, and gives employees who provide valuable information via the network extra compensation, in the same way executives are given bonuses for hitting sales targets. But is that a good idea?…
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As social networks become more popular, the challenge of finding relevance amid all the noise becomes exponentially harder. Klout, which is trying to build a comprehensive database of social influence online, says it is now integrating activity from Facebook into its service as well as Twitter.…
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Want to find the most influential and relevant Twitter users on the topic of baking? iPhone apps? The oil spill? The Twitter search startup Topsy has built a neat way to sort Twitter users to surface experts who tweet actively and influentially on any topic.…
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