Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

Remember Klout? It is a service that collects your activity on impact on various social media and gives you a ranking - your 'klout score'. Anyhow, Klout is being shut down. The explanation: "The Klout acquisition provided Lithium with valuable artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning capabilities but Klout as a standalone service is not aligned with our long-term strategy." Because the Lithium page will probably disappear, here's the Metafilter story which will exist (for a while?) to provide historical context to those of you reading this post in the 2020s.The Metafilter author notes that "It's unknown what Klout's parent company will be doing with all that data."

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