On Fri, 18 Nov 2011, Brian Kelly wrote:
> I imagine many Web people working in Marketing departments will be
> looking at how their institution is doing within the Social Web using
> tools such as PeerIndex, Klout, etc or by buying in consultancy services
> from commercial social media companies.
I understand, though I haven't personally researched the situation, that
some people have significant privacy concerns about Klout:
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2011/11/evil-social-networks.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/14/technology/klouts-automatically-created-profiles-included-minors.html?_r=1
http://gigaom.com/2011/11/07/is-klout-crossing-the-line-when-it-comes-to-privacy/
Jon.
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Jon Warbrick
Information Systems Development, Computing Service, University of Cambridge
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