Social network measurement service Klout has unveiled a new metric to better calculate its users' overall social reach, adding Foursquare checkins alongside its existing Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn metrics.Klout measures social influence by using data collected from supported social media accounts, incorporating following counts, follower counts, retweets, list memberships and the influential people that interact with those accounts – combining them all to award the user with an o [...]

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Evernote is the app that I use the most on my smartphones and tablets. If you are a long time reader of this blog, you know that I have written numerous posts about this wonderful notetaking app. What makes Evernote so useful for me is that it stores all my information in the cloud, and I can access my information from any mobile device. Two recent changes to Evernote, note linking and rich text support, have made it even more valuable.


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In a bid to reduce the amount of spam on its social network, Facebook has begun integrating new controls that assist developers in maintaining their apps, also introducing granular restrictions to stop certain parts of an app from issuing spam updates.In a blog post on its Developer blog, Facebook said it had amended the hundreds of filters in place to reduce the number of erroneously disabled apps. Identifying the impact that the disabled apps had on both Facebook and its developers, the social [...]

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The all-conquering, indestructible Facebook was brought down a peg or two last week when Google finally produced the goods and unleashed an almighty sucker-punch that may well end Facebook’s reign at the top of the social tree.Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock these past ten days, you will of course know that I’m talking about Google+. Given that it’s currently in private beta mode, you may not have used it yet. And if you’re lucky enough to have received an in [...]

Read More: Google+ is Facebook’s number one challenger, and LinkedIn better watch out too