PeopleBrowsr, the social analytics service that created Kred, has mined the Twitter hose for data on the Internet’s most viral people and subjects since 2008. Today, the company released an API that enriches Kred’s social influence scoring system with in-depth reports. With PeopleBrowser, users can search key words and phrases, hashtags, names, bio data such as gender, interactions between users, location, or communities to pull up information on any topic.
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Facebook Allows Users to Download Expanded Archive of Their Information (Inside Facebook)
The “Download Your Information” feature now includes catalogues of friend requests a users make, IP addresses they’ve logged in from and any previous names they’ve used, among other Facebook actions. This is in addition to the copy of photos, posts, messages, chat conversations, friend lists and other information that Facebook first made available for download in 2010. The New York Times Facebook, which is preparing for an initial public stock offering, most likely in May, has been trying to accommodate government officials in Europe, where privacy laws are more stringent than in the United States. Mashable The archive still doesn’t include your friends’ photos and status updates, other users’ personal info and comments you’ve made on other people’s posts. Facebook This feature will be rolling out gradually to all users and more categories of information will be available for download in the future. Read more
People who spend more time on Facebook than Twitter might find themselves with more Kred. The social influence site announced this morning that it will now include Facebook activity in its scoring system.
Much like Klout, Kred is a social scoring system designed to track a person’s activity on social media sites to find out how influential they are. But this Klout competitor was designed to be “open, transparent and honest,” said PeopleBrowsr CEO Andrew Grill in a phone interview with Social Times.
