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Do Klout Scores and Facebook likes really represent a Company’s Worth?

Posted on2013/02/192013/02/19AuthorTruXterLeave a comment

Do Klout Scores and Facebook likes really represent you Company’s Worth?
These days, to be anyone, you have to have a bunch of likes on Facebook. This brings your “Likability” up. See the moguls and giants and the interns (that sell the giants on new ideas so they can get a job) have a connection issue between them. The interns have these ideas to use everything new they can think of so they can sell their foot in the door of where they are wanting to work. So they tell the higher ups “It’s time to move in a new direction” or “No you are thinking like the old way” as if you have been in a coma since “the old way”.

There are Exploits to Facebook that no one even cares to realize are there, except those who use them, to use you to get ahead and never once look back to help you.

New Media Flaw

See.. Likes are likes. No matter how real or true they may be. a like is a like. Such as the tool that shares the rumor of Starbucks not supporting troops. This is a guy that uses a program called “Klout“. Klout gives you a score for every share and like you get on Facebook. as long as the guy sharing that rumor doesn’t let anyone comment on that image, he will get lots of shares and likes. The moment the shares stop, the moment his Klout score stops getting better. Klout doesn’t care about how real your likes are, just that you got them.
Such as here Rumor that Bill Gates is Giving $5000 to people who share is picture.

Klout scores and Facebook likes are a scam for marketing. Something that old media has had a curb on for decades.
Truth is, don’t go buying some company because their Klout score is high. because seriously, you have no idea how they got that score. Sure they got it with likes on Facebook. but what the heck are people liking on that company’s page? Are the likes related to the products? If someone is selling you a company based on Klout scores and Facebook likes, make sure they show every liked item and total of likes. For all you know it could be something gory or totally unrelated to their product. If it’s a cookie company but they have more likes related to something political… then their product is no good. No one likes it.

What about the Facebook Update

Posted on2011/09/27AuthorTruXter

So. you lived through the Facebook updates, this far. i guess you did what I did. You waited to see if it gets any worse, before you found another social network to go to.
Now it looks like Facebook has paid off their typical bunch, to pretty much rub it in your face that you are a worthless zombie who will drone and trance your way into Facebook as they expect your addictive nature to do.
Well done Facebook. Well done.
So how do you feel about the new Facebook changes? Now that more of your privacy and personal information is compromised, leaving you nearly nothing left to keep your anonymity or personal privacy covered and secret and protected because you just about gave it all away, one bit at a time. The day you signed up, you gave Facebook the password to your email address. Your secret phrase was your mother’s maiden name, and you filled in your profile showing exact date of birth and city. Never once realizing that people have programs that can use less than that information, to get your social security number, but with what you have already given of just that, a 3 year old can guess your social security number. FYI, It’s in sequence, The kid born just before you in the same hospital, is one digit away from you. yep. that simple. Remember, the system back when that system was created.
But if you use an alias on Facebook, you are safe.. but really not everyone is wise enough to be David Johnson everywhere he goes on the web. Oh..and FYI. i use my real name on Facebook and G+ :-)
I just find it funny how Facebook cancels out the fake post about charging and in the same breath tells you how the cool features work now. So…. who really started the rumor?

How do you feel about Facebook’s new changes? Has the change to Facebook effected you yet?

Has Social Media Innovation Stopped?

Posted on2010/11/16AuthorTruXter

Has the innovative race of creating the next useful social website come to a stop? why? and how long?
The last known Social site that has made an impact is over 4 years old. So there is no social site that has been invented or created, no idea has come to anyone’s creation table since 06. There have been evolutions and “reinventions” of websites, but nothing that can 100% be called creative or new. We have seen Social websites pop up that are clones of or hybrids of other websites, but that isn’t quite creation or new.
Twitter and Jaiku. That’s it. Jaiku is older than twitter. So Twitter it’s self is in theory a rip off of Jaiku. Before that was Joost. Joost of course came out with a messenger when it was first created. You would install Joost so you can watch movies on your computer, but there was also a movie voting system, along with the movie voting system there was also a messenger/chat system. So you could talk to other Joost users who are watching the same movie or tv show as what you are watching.
Today there is one. Only one social network out there that everyone still uses. That social network is the one that all tech people were certain would flop. Facebook. Facebook of course is the website that really wants you to only add people to your friends that you already know. Now that isn’t very social. Is it? It’s more of an address book. Some modifications to Facebook have allowed you to add more features and add more friends, and add annoying nagging video games.
We did see Myspace fall recently. We just saw Myspace build it’s self over again. But no one came to see the new place. The few that looked hated Myspace. because well, Myspace was over bloated.
Chatrooms are completely gone. Forums are all trolled up and spam flooded. Unless someone reinvented the chatroom, that venue seems to be dead.
Revision 3 needs what techtv had. A Live show that people could interact with. like Chris pirillo’s show. Live.Pirillo.com . That would save Revision3. Especially if they did this with diggnation. Maybe once or twice a month
Is communication dying?
If anyone knows of a new social network that seems to be ground breaking or potentially ground breaking, tell people about it. Post it here. I would love to try this social network/ social media.

New Myspace is Released in Beta

Posted on2010/11/11AuthorTruXter

Myspace now has a bit of a better looking code, up and working. You can still decorate your background, but in all, the interface per user is 100 times better than before. Myspace still has the media players we all loved and wished that facebook would start. Myspace has now added a “Like” button that everyone loved from Digg.com, and all of the techies know that facebook completely ripped off from digg.com . Myspace now has a “Discover” button . And that my friend if you don’t try that button and you still think that facebook is better and a better social network, then you my friend do not understand the word “social”. Myspace lets you discover people. Facebook allows you to add people, who were already your friend.
Myspace is doing it right this time, they just need a mess load of popular actors and singers saying how cool it is, before the trendies even begin to consider it.
Their EULA is there for everyone to read so you know what your privacy is.
What would be nice for Myspace about this time is give everyone on facebook what they have been wanting. Give everyone a dislike button . *1

Let’s see what I do not like.

I don’t like how I can’t ignore bulletin posts from games. This needs to be fixed. The site feels a bit clunky and bloated, so they need to see what does not get used much and yank that out, so the pages load a bit quicker. I would love to see apps like news ticker on end user side, not profile side. I mean that can strike up conversations. Notifications are hard to find, but it’s the flag at the top.

All fair play I gotta give Myspace a fair score while it’s in it’s first release state.

page load 7/10

looks 8/10

usability 9/10

interface 10/10

creativity 8/10

Final Score 8/10

and that’s pretty dang good for a beta on day one.

(Ignore) so you can vote stuff down from it’s glorified position of a perfect score. See people on facebook create these pages and live by the fantasy that they are making a point because 2000000 people like their cause, but what if we could “dislike” their cause and show a full on democracy with this thing? so those who create a cause and preach it all day long until the veins in their neck collapses, can see that more people dislike their cause. That’s what Myspace needs. Get a full on vote system and let the Hipsters see why it is good to allow people to vote. You sure won’t see politicians getting on there. Even better if Causes could be categorized. ok enough about what should be.

Things Facebook Needs

Posted on2010/10/272010/10/27AuthorTech Review Man

Hey, great place. Facebook is free. I know.
But it isn’t a perfect place.
at first I didn’t mean to log into Facebook and rant to my friends about what I think the place needs. Every single day.
It just happened. Facebook fricken screams for me to notice things about it. some of the things I rant about on Facebook are just jokes and staying with my typical theme. So without further suspense about how I feel about Facebook.

Facebook needs

Facebook needs a media player so I can set my own playlist of crap I like so my friends get a chance to sample it as apposed to flooding up the screen with youtube videos… because … well.. that’s pretty much all you got.
Facebook needs ignore a link. If you keep getting the same link from all of your friends and you do not want to ignore your friends 1 by 1. Would be nice to ignore that link.
Facebook needs a fricken time line. I hate logging in to see the crap I saw yesterday. Every post is 17+ hours old. I have to wait 17 hours before I can see what is going on right now????
Facebook needs a thumbs down button. Really you have to check your friends from time to time. If you constantly post only the positive in anything. Well for one, you are a froot! and mainly you do not point out the flaw in their theory. You do not prevent your friend from jumping in a bear cage, just because they like animals, and think the whole world should be more loving.. KINDA like This.
Facebook needs to get rid of that stupid bar at the bottom of the screen. We hated that bar when AOL forced it on us, we hated that bar when netzero forced it on us. We hate that bar.
Facebook needs in the idea of the bar at the bottom, How about private chatrooms that only our friends and their friends can go in. or something like that.
Facebook needs to actually be social. Nothing worse than trying to meet someone and getting a pop up saying ‘ do you really know this person???” how is it social to only meet people you already know ??????

Well I’m out of stuff for now. You can leave ideas below. Comments are open.

Mark Zuckerberg Rumored Buying Myspace

Posted on2010/10/24AuthorTruXter2 Comments

Story is that Mark Zuckerberg is buying Myspace.
I don’t see it happening. I see the chance that Mark and crew might implement even more stuff like Myspace content to their site, but not a buy out.
but the rumor says that Mark Zuckerberg and crew are going to bring it in, all Myspace links will still work, and there will be a slow gradual change of advertisements from Google adsense to the Facebook platform of advertisements.
Also within this rumor is the chatrooms will be brought back. Your existing Facebook profile and Myspace profiles will then merge, you have the option of which one . I doubt that. I see Facebook not wanting anything but their own.

I personally would like to see Myspace buy out yahoo or merge with Yahoo. and run Yahoo advertisements. Have you ever seen Yahoo’s chatrooms? Spam farm. They have no control of their own network.

I would also prefer to see MSN bring back their chatrooms and work more on their Myspace killer (lol) they started but never completed.
I would also like to see aim chat (or what ever in the heck aol used to have for their chatrooms)get in on this deal and use their servers or what ever is left of them

The more the choices we have, the more innovations we have and the more freedom to choose what network and what abilities we want to use and have. As of now there are still a few social sites that are sitting stale. Why not move them all up?
What social Changes would you like to see ?

Warning!!! Facebook Dislike Button – Fake

Posted on2010/10/11AuthorTruXter

This is sort ofr old news but I have some slow friends and I know you do to.
So when you run into one, send them a link to here.
and just to make it so you don’t look like a jerk for sendingthem here, smart people need this information!
There is a link to a “facebook dislike” both website and a button.
They are both fake and do not do what you want them to do.
Here is an old Mashable link that explains the situation better.
Facebook Dislike button is fake.

So if you do not wnat your account spamming something out that is below your taste, and making your om, granny, ex-boyfriend think something about you that you do not want them to think about you.
Don’t think there is a new “Dislike”
It’s not real unless posted on the front page of facebook..

It’s just as much a fake as the old myspace gimmick “see who is reading your page”.
So many people fell for that vanity scam.