changing mind on Klout

In the end, my goal is to build a product that goes beyond the gimmicks and drives real value for everyone. I believe that every person who creates content online has influence to some group of people and on some topic. Everyone also wants to feel listened to and interesting and I think we can do this in a way that empowers people to become better, more effective, online citizens.

Michael Arrington & Joe Fernandez – via Why I changed my mind on Klout and invested

welcome to CircleMe

Pseudonyms Drive communities

via disqus.com

an interesting research from our friends at Disqus

Jobs at ipernity

The ipernity Team is small but talented and tricky. We work on cutting-edge technologies and innovative business. The Team is led by the ipernity’s founders, pioneers of the French internet who created Voila.fr, eStat.com and Respublica.

Joining our small team will make you a *key* member. Your work will contribute directly to ipernity success and will impact millions of users.

ipernity offers competitive salaries to talented and motivated people. Benefits include health insurance, food and company shares. Our office is ideally located in Sophia-Antipolis, the “French silicon valley” – 320 sunny days a year, water and ski activities within reach.

Open Positions

• Community Manager / Sophia-Antipolis (France)
• Software engineer – front-end / Sophia-Antipolis (France)
• Software engineer – back-end / Sophia-Antipolis (France)

Check the via http://www.ipernity.com/about/jobs page for other opportunities in the future.

Gowalla is Going to Facebook

Gowalla, as a service, will be winding down at the end of January. We plan to provide an easy way to export your Passport data, your Stamp and Pin data (along with your legacy Item data), and your photos as well. Facebook is not acquiring Gowalla’s user data.

via blog.gowalla.com

I am just SO happy to have stick with Foursquare reading this!

– 4sqmap is a is a web-application to visualize all of your Foursquare data. It is simple and easy to use. It takes all the information that’s stored on foursquare’s servers and is available through the API and makes it interesting to browse.