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Why a Social Credit Score is an Empty and Dangerous Notion

Waxing UnLyrical

Back in 2007, my co-founder, David, and I kicked around ideas fairly similar to what Klout does today. A credit score is absolute, everything we had learned through our user data showed that a social score was completely driven by context. I’m glad we didn’t let it. I liked the ring of it – “social credit score,” yeah!

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Open Community Case Study – American Library Association

SocialFish

Community unlocks more useful data. In 2007 the Library Society of the World (LSW) was created as a reaction to ALA’s institutional characteristics. ALA collects and uses profile data for the benefit of members, nonmembers and the association. Last year she played around with Foursquare and Gowalla, but it didn’t go anywhere.

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Social Media and Travel

Social Media Marketing

JetBlue made a name for itself in the social media space after a difficult travel situation thanks to severe winter weather in 2007. And their use of Groupon, Loopt, Foursquare and more prove it. Charging stations, Boingo data ports Fort Lauderdale* FLL 120,000 2.65 Charging stations, work desks Baltimore BWI 7.92

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Open Community Case Study – Empowering the Periphery

SocialFish

Community unlocks more useful data. In 2007 the Library Society of the World (LSW) was created as a reaction to ALA’s institutional characteristics. ALA collects and uses profile data for the benefit of members, nonmembers and the association. Last year she played around with Foursquare and Gowalla, but it didn’t go anywhere.

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The History of Social Media in 33 Key Moments

Hootsuite

YouTube makes partners, the OG influencers (2007) Through YouTube’s elephantine beginnings , the buzz grew. In May 2007, YouTube introduced its partnership program. The hashtag arrives (2007) The strict 140-character limit for tweets set Twitter apart from rivals, including Facebook and Tumblr.

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Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2009

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Here’s 2007. 6 Tips for Getting the Most out of Foursquare (Mashable): Foursquare is new for many, so learn it and soak it in while it’s still hot. SEO Best Practices: New Policies Based on Updated Correlation Data (SEOmoz): It’s time to start reevaluating your SEO tactics. Here’s my list for 2008.

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Social Media Strategy from A to Z » Techipedia | Tamar Weinberg

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FourSquare, Gowalla, Loopt, and other location-aware services are social networks, unifying real connections. With billions of pages of content and yottabytes of data, marketing is how you’ll get people to see what you have to offer to the world. People always ask me what the “future&# of social media is.