The Importance of being Connected
Social Media
The rise and rise of the web developer
In the Beginning there was HTML
When I first started out in web design, things were different. It was like the wild west - small groups of frontiers men still dipping their toe into the waters of what was possible. It was a fairly well established industry at the time, but it was something that the general public didn't get all that involved in.Confessions, Klout and Contradictions
In my third set of musings around social influence and indexing tools such as Klout, I feel it is time to confess a few things.
But first, you may have noticed from my previous posts - I am not a fan of the importance being put on the afore mentioned tools in the industry.
Google Just Don’t get Social
Google have been playing with social networking for a while now. Wave, buzz and now Google+. Up until now they have failed to make any kind of impact, proving each time they just don’t understand what people want from social networking.
However, with the launch of Google+ it seems that they have gotten a bit more serious about the whole thing. You can’t move within google applications without some kind of new Google+ integration being announce. Up until now this has always been an extra feature, one that added value to any Google+ user.
Treating the Klout
Just recently, Klout in their scoring algorithm. This something changed quite a few people’s scores. Some for the better and some for the worse.
Now you see this proves the point I was making in Catching the Klout. Chasing numbers is, in many ways, pointless when it comes to social networking.
Using arbitrary numbers to check what kind of influence or engagement you have, can only be a small part of the over all picture. This is especially true when the numbers can be affected on the whim of developers at Klout.