After Klout adds Foursquare, blogger, Instagram, Tumblr, Flickr and last.FM social measures affect

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Klout, launch, which measures the impact on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, and, most recently, Foursquare, adds more services today, for a total of 10 different ways to measure your social influence on the Internet. Klout adds five new networks — blogger, Tumblr, Flickr, last.FM and Instagram, allowing users to add their influence Klout on these networks their Klout score.

The background for the conduct of users with Klout ranking algorithms are complex and semantic content analysis to measure the impact of individuals, on social networks. On Twitter score influence Klout is based on the user's ability to drive action through Tweets, Retweets, and more. On Facebook, Klout will be regarded as conversations and content to generate interest and participation, through the likes, comments and more, out of almost 700 million Internet users.

While the Klout did not give specific aspects such as factoring these new services to your account, you can make assumptions based on each individual network. For LinkedIn Klout could evaluate your number of connections and are updated on the site. And probably immodestly Klout is based on how often you check in, how much you have earned the mayors ' offices, and much more.

For Instagram measurements may be how much love you have for your photos. You can also use the same Flickr metric. Last.FM is an interesting addition, given its first music service added Klout. Spotify integration will become Kun?

Users can connect their accounts to their Klout in their profile. Klout says that the connection account wil never downgrade your account, but it can improve conversion rate.

And remember, you should add Google + Klout as a metric measure soon.

Klout interventions in the social network. Klout allows users to monitor the impact of their views, references and recommendations through your social graph. The collection of data about the content ...

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After the auction, Dropbox is close to the choice of investors — Round put in $ 10 billion

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We are known for a week now, Dropbox has been talking to investors about the new mega round of financing. The company, which just raised $ 7.2 million in seed and series a round in 2007, aspires to something between $ 200 million and $ 300 million, we have heard. But now we know a little more. And we have heard something from one source, which is nothing short of shocking.

Dropbox auction last week, during which investors made their requests to participate in the new round, numerous sources tell us. This week, Dropbox, met with the VCs who bets and collect term sheets. All they have to make that decision now.

Here's the really crazy stuff: one of the proposals under consideration could push the Dropbox score post-money $ 10 billion , one source tells us. Another source said that was inaccurate and considered the final evaluation will settle towards the bottom of the value of $ 5 to $ 10 billion we reported last month.

Score from 10 billion dollars would be amazing for a number of reasons. But consider this: Pandora and LinkedIn, two companies recently became public, have market caps of $ 2.16 billion and $ 8.63 billion, respectively. Yes, start with just 65 staff members may be worth more money on paper than these two public darlings.

Also consider: Yahoo has a Capitalization of $ 15 billion. And our parents, AOL, capitalization of only $ 1.72 billion.

Dropbox has 25 million users (many of whom are paying) downloading files 200 million a day.

More to come soon.

Dropbox was founded in 2007, Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi. Frustrated when working with multiple computers, drew was inspired to create a service that will bring people ...

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