Comments on: A Question About Klout… http://blog.ouseful.info/2012/09/28/a-question-about-klout/ Trying to find useful things to do with emerging technologies in open education Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:38:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Tony Hirst http://blog.ouseful.info/2012/09/28/a-question-about-klout/#comment-27803 Fri, 28 Sep 2012 15:23:25 +0000 http://blog.ouseful.info/?p=8619#comment-27803 @bruce The only evidence I have is anecdotal… I don’t understand the new Klout UI at all – in the old one, it used to be possible to look at the contribution to other people’s rank coming from Twitter, Faceboook, Google+ etc (so for example, @briankelly I think was mainly Twitter, as I am, @mhawksey and @ajcann were growing their Google+ contributions etc.). I’m not sure if it’s still an option to see breakdowns for other people, or do side by side comparisons between my account and someone else’s. (TBH, I don’t really care enough to go digging around to see if it’s still possible…)

It would be interesting to map out a little part of a hybrid social network (eg around @mhawksey) to see if he was influencing folk who were separately gaining reputation either mainly from Twitter, or mainly from Google+, or conversely, split across them. I’m trying to visualise this in my mind’s eye… maybe a set of folk showing typed connections between them (friend on Google+, friend on Twitter) and then some sort of indication of their Klout score (eg node size). I don’t think Gephi supports multiple/parallel edges with different labels between the two nodes (it didnlt last time I tried)? Graphviz does I think; not sure about igraph?

]]> By: anishmohammedAnish http://blog.ouseful.info/2012/09/28/a-question-about-klout/#comment-27801 Fri, 28 Sep 2012 13:22:34 +0000 http://blog.ouseful.info/?p=8619#comment-27801 Reputation systems are hard, (boot strapping even harder) and attacks against reputation systems are harder to defend. To make matters worse some of the practicses of Klout might be questionable in other parts of the world. This could make pictures very hazy…

]]> By: brucemcpherson (@brucemcpherson) http://blog.ouseful.info/2012/09/28/a-question-about-klout/#comment-27800 Fri, 28 Sep 2012 12:30:55 +0000 http://blog.ouseful.info/?p=8619#comment-27800 Tony – interesting post as always. I’ve been kind of ignoring Klout too. Although I use twitter and google plus, and do a bit of blogging, I have so far completely avoided facebook – don’t even have an account. I wonder if it is possible to have a high Klout score whilst completely ignoring a large piece of the networking universe – meaning does being very active in a particular area (say twitter, blogging) completely compensate for non participation (I assume that facebook doesn’t figure very highly in your daily community interactions) in others. I imagine Klout obsessives may also increase their score simply by being so.
bruce

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