Klout, using black magic and some arbitrary formulas, assigns you a number that tells you exactly how important you are in your social networks. Klouchebag is its evil twin from a dark, sarcastic parallel universe. Klouchebag will assign you a number carefully calculated to tell you how much of an “asshat“ you are. Your asshattery, as determined by Klouchebag, is dependant on four things:
- Anger, basically how much you swear
- Retweet Abuse, asking for retweets, retweeting too much, or using old-style retweets
- Social Apps, using social apps
- English Misuse, basically lack of capitalization or using excessive punctuation
Klout, Kloughebag…the real asshats are the ones paying attention.
Though it has long been called a “hobby” project, interest in the Apple TV digital set top box may be ramping up in Cupertino. Apparently Apple has been talking with the movie channel and streaming content provider Epix about bringing their content to Apple’s streaming device. This could be good news for Apple, which has struggled to bring more movies to consumers. It could also mean that the oft-rumored overhaul of the Apple TV could be coming soon.
Back when Google Docs became available, rumor began to spread about a cloud-storage system from the search giant. Since then, there hasn’t been much word on the so-called “Google Drive” until the past few days when official looking screenshots of somethinghave started to leak out. Now, more concrete details are starting to emerge: The service will offer 5GB of online, automatically syncing storage for free, and is believed to be launching next week for both Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android.
Hey retail friends. How about having this in all your stores? Store administration. Security. Endless consumer data like frequency without a purchase…I get excited about technology like this.
Step one of achieving a dystopia is having the physical infrastructure to monitor large amounts of people at all times. Step two is having the software (or manpower, I guess) to parse it all. A Japanese surveillance company has just made huge strides on that second step. The company, Hitachi Kokusai Electric, is just finishing development of a facial recognition system that, given enough footage, can scan and index around 36 million faces in just around 1 second. You’d need a pretty insane amount of video before that calculation time became non-trivial.
THE FUTURE OF MOBILE
Alex Cocotas and Henry Blodget, businessinsider.comYesterday, we hosted our IGNITION WEST: Future of Mobile conference in San Francisco.
To kick off the conference, our BI Intelligence team—Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, Alex Cocotas, and I—put together a deck on the current…
This digital age makes it painfully easy to connect with others. Social networking can help you stay in touch with your family across the globe, hunt down old friends, make new ones, and tweet really insulting things at celebrities. I don’t know about you, but that last one is my favorite by far. In celebration of Twitter’s 6th birthday, Jimmy Kimmel arranged for a few celebrities to come on TV and read a few offending tweets aloud. I’ll leave you to watch how it unfolds on your own, but let’s just say those tweets get de-fanged pretty easily.
Shut up and take your customers’ money in whatever form the customers can offer it.
All things considered, it seems like the PayPal Here could be a great technological advancement for sellers and buyers everywhere. I’m sure everyone who sells things out there would love to be able to accept all forms of sweet, sweet money more easily, and I like the idea of a world where I don’t have to walk around with a bunch of cash. In fact, if I saw one of these in the wild, I might go out of my way to make a purchase just to try it out.
