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Klouchebag | The Standard for Asshattery.

Klout is a what I'd call 'crawlybumlick' social kind of gamification that assigns you a score based on how "influential" you are online.

Barf.

I got sucked in early last year and did believe it showed promise for business accounts to help gauge social engagement, but the way it's 'scores' are made and continued direction it's taken (and as the maker of fun poking site Klouchebag Tom Scott, and time has pointed out), it really has became an incredibly vain, pointless piece of douchebaggery and essentially desperate spamming drivel.

I'm closing my accounts as real influence is something you earn, not something you get points for.

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Facebook acquires Instagram for $1bn. Hipsters cry, drop organic latte's and vacate the service..

via blog.instagram.com

Sarcastic yes, but a sizeable chunk of users it seems are not too happy about 'farcebook' spending (in best Dr. Evil I can) 1 Billion dollars to buy out the oh so cool polaroid stylee app.

The same whiners who in droves complained bitterly about Android stealing their cool and who were desperate to keep it elite (if you call a worldwide mobile app elite, and many do).

Still hipsters aside, bloody well done for Kevin Systrom and his small team at Instagram who now no longer need to worry where the next cheque is coming from.

So what happens to the app? Cynically we could have pokes, farmville and privacy options becoming hidden and cryptic, but Zuckerberg says no changes for now.

Why? To preserve Instagrams cool status, but is too late? Could it be like Yahoo was to the then oh so cool flickr, which is barley luke warm at best these days?

Time will tell but expect deeper integration with facebook and it's main mobile app quicker than you can sell your stock on farmville or poke your pal. 1 billion dollars spent needs return on investment, and you can bet they want a return with that price tag...

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We're hiring. Manager, Social Media @RMIT University position available.

via yourcareer.rmit.edu.au

Our Marketing & Comms team at RMIT are expanding. Experienced in managing Social Media? Then read on...

http://ow.ly/a4Ani

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Copygram. Get All Your Instagram Photo Filter-y Goodness Easily...

Love Instagr.am? I do too, but getting photos off your phone and instragrams non existent web site is a bit of a pain. You can use extragram to view them, or http://www.ifttt.com for copying new photos to say a dropbox or flickr account, but a simple way to get older images is using copygr.am.

Just sign in with your instagram account and your on your way to download all your photo filter-y goodness. (Thnx to +Robert Scoble )

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The Quiet Place. We All Need Some Of This...

From amitaytweeto.com

Beautiful.

Via the always awesome Darth Ambiguous

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Charlie Brooker on how to prevent more riots & standing up for social media...

In the smouldering aftermath, some politicians, keen to shift the focus from social inequality, have muttered darkly about the role of BlackBerry Messenger, Twitter and Facebook – frightening new technologies that, like the pen and the human mouth, allow citizens to swap messages with one another.

via guardian.co.uk

As usual, sharp wit and crystal clear observation from Charlie. Particularly liked the quite above and his observation on social media and the politician's knee jerk reaction that (shock!) people used twitter to communicate the riots and thus let's ban everything.

A sad day.

Read all of the excellent article by Charlie Brooker.

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Owls have their own social networking site it seems...

via b3ta.com

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Like vs Plus. Finish him!!

via likevsplus.com

A cool little site letting you pick your social button. Click the image to fight!

I've not had as much time as I would have liked to dive deeper in to Google + over the past week, but every day it just keeps getting better. Maybe it's the smaller crowd, maybe it's the G+ geeks like myself, but this service IS your social network. Not Farcebook's ad ridden, group adding, farmville, face tagging tosh version of your social network.

Well in truth I'm sure all the ads and games and other items will sadly come along at some point, but until the + on!

Join me on the +side

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Foursquare. For Sexytime...

via gizmodo.com

As social media dominates our lives, (can we all just have a break now?) no wonder College Humour came up with this rather fun, but for prudes, NSFW vid.

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