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Recently there was some discussion on Klout, their influence calculation is unclear. Many people were unhappy with the fact that their Klout Score is a moving target. People who actually use the numbers generated by Klout to find the influencers they want to contact also have the issue that they don’t see what the results are of their contacts.

There are other options like Kred.ly or PeerIndex although they have not yet got the klout of Klout.

Kred.ly is an interesting option as the scoring is extremely transparent, with this transparency the system could be gamed. This would need collusion on quite a large scale.

PeerIndex is less transparent, although it gives more statistics and information on the date it uses to calculate authority and score. Roughly your PeerIndex is an average of your Authority + Activity + Audience. Unlike Kred.ly it doesn’t give numbers on individual social actions, although it does give more direct feedback it can’t be used to directly game the system.

What all of them suffer from is that they see authority stemming from one account, and neglect to see that power users – who use different channels to curate content for different audiences – may have their klout spread thinly over places that aren’t included like multiple Twitter, Google+ or FaceBook pages.

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Written by Daniël W. Crompton (webhat)

January 17, 2012 at 4:29 pm

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Tagged with facebook, g+, google, googleplus, klout, kred.ly, peerindex, twitter

WunderKit, HandPick.me, Google Analytics, Blogging, Social Media Job Trends, TwitSprout and more… #podcast

Last night’s Cinch about:

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Written by Daniël W. Crompton (webhat)

January 16, 2012 at 11:21 pm

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Tagged with analytics, google, handpick.me, podcast, twitsprout, wordpress, wunderkit

CloudFlare, WordPress, Google Analytics, My Permissions and Kred.ly #podcast

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Last night’s Cinch about:

MyPermissions.org
kred.ly (me)
CloudFlare and Google Analytics for WordPress.com

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Written by Daniël W. Crompton (webhat)

January 8, 2012 at 10:18 am

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Tagged with analytics, cloudflare, dns, google, kred.ly, permissions, podcast, wordpress

6 Months of Security Links #2011

I’m a regular curator of daily links, and like to give overviews of my collection of curated links and posts. This is partly as there are some good sources and articles in here and as I am working on a research project which I started based on a number of books I read.

I’m sure you’ll find something interesting in the items below – there are some gems in the list – and I dare to hazard the guess you might learn something you wanted to know.

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Written by Daniël W. Crompton (webhat)

July 15, 2011 at 4:10 pm

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On Failing Gracefully #security #risk

Failing gracefully is one of the most important things, whether it is your responsibility or not ultimately customers believe it is your responsibility to perform in extraordinarily difficult situations. Some companies forget this and force their view and ideas of the world on their customers, that’s one of the quickest ways to turn customers into ex-customers.

I was inspired when I was at a customer site checking my Google Reader and selected Little Gamers, which is considered profanity according to the content filter, and received the message below. I could see the item in Google Reader when I used https rather than http to access Google Reader, although the cartoon was obviously blocked due to the content filter.

This is a fine example of failing gracefully.

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Written by Daniël W. Crompton (webhat)

February 15, 2011 at 9:25 am

Posted in business, risk, security

Tagged with fail, google, risk, security

GeoLocation and Data Leakage Prevention #foursquare #gowalla #dlp #security

To make it clear I’m not speaking of the information being broadcast by employees to social media, I’ve been musing on the risks of Data Leakage Prevention (DLP) of third party employees such as consultants using geolocation services such as foursquare, brightkite or Gowalla. Many companies – very usual with consulting companies – have requirements that their employees do not release the names of customers or customer data to the media, this includes releasing data pertaining to services which are offered, these policies have yet to be fully enforced when it comes to geolocation services.

For a consulting company, such as mine, which has a reasonably diverse offering of security software to customers, yet for a company who is known as a RSA, Oracle or Novell integrator it can create risk vectors when it is known that their in house software leans towards a specific platform. In this way it could become public knowledge that a company uses a specific product, and based on the date of the visits information pertaining to versions can be inferred.

Naturally posting the geolocation to a service such as foursquare doesn’t necessarily open security holes, and it may not violate the standard of “Due Care” in that it is not necessarily negligent to release this information. Although it might not be in the best interest of the customer to make this public knowledge.

On the other had there is also an advantage to be had, in any cases of disputes a travel log like an entry log can be produced as corroborating evidence, although without direct evidence this merely proves where the physical access control device was and not the location of the disputed individual. And only circumstantially where the owner was located.

Your thoughts?

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Written by Daniël W. Crompton (webhat)

January 13, 2011 at 8:00 pm

Posted in business, geolocation, geotagging, risk, security, social

Tagged with brightkite, dopplr, fireeagle, foursquare, geolocation, google, gowalla, grindr, latitude, loopt, whrrl

A catalog of this year’s risky articles #2010

Risk is something which can be difficult to evaluate for the average person, there is a lot of work which goes in to learning not to do the two things that people usually do when they are confronted with risk: