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		ThomPete on March 27, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Klout acquired for $200 million by Lithium Technol... I don't think anyone is contesting the grander vision. The problem is that they sold out, way before they sold out. They slapped together something that might make it for a social media karme engine game kind of thing but not by any metrics any real valuable personification of influence. Besides what everyone else could already see, and even that they got wrong.

dpcheng2003 on March 27, 2014 [–]

I agree. I guess my original comment was not more clear on this. The sell-out was the hackneyed algorithm, not the $200M.

crystaln on March 27, 2014 | [–]

Hackneyed does not make sense here. I'm not sure it means what you think it does. What is your critism of the algorithm?

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