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Why Influence Mining is the Next Gold Rush | social crm | Social.

Convince & Convert

Joe Fernandez is CEO of Klout , a provider of influence metrics that is being incorporated into a variety of social media tools (including CoTweet , a client of mine) Jay Baer : What’s changed in the last two years or so with regard to access to influencer information? But there is going to be an explosion of other smart agents.

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The Next “Facebook Platform” for the Modern Web, and Why Twitter’s Running the Wrong Way

Stay N' Alive

With the advent of mobile, entire operating systems running on the browser, cloud-based personal information stores and APIs such as Kynetx to manage both user and application data for the user, we are so close to being where we want to be! Perhaps it was hearing Ev emphasize “yet&# when talking about CoTweet -like functionality.