Comments on: The Google Number: How Influential Are You? http://www.psfk.com/2008/10/the-google-number-how-influential-are-you.html Ideas & Trends Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:50:05 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: It’s Just A Popularity Contest at Piaras Kelly PR - Public Relations in Ireland http://www.psfk.com/2008/10/the-google-number-how-influential-are-you.html/comment-page-1#comment-190968 It’s Just A Popularity Contest at Piaras Kelly PR - Public Relations in Ireland Wed, 22 Oct 2008 08:07:56 +0000 http://www.psfk.com/?p=16737#comment-190968 [...] I read on PFSK that “Google has a patent pending on a technology it says will rank the most influential people on social networking sites.” According to the BusinessWeek article, which PFSK quotes: The new technology could track not just how many friends you have on Facebook but how many friends your friends have. Well-connected chums make you particularly influential. The tracking system also would follow how frequently people post things on each other’s sites. It could even rate how successful somebody is in getting friends to read a news story or watch a video clip, according to people familiar with the patent filing. [...] [...] I read on PFSK that “Google has a patent pending on a technology it says will rank the most influential people on social networking sites.” According to the BusinessWeek article, which PFSK quotes: The new technology could track not just how many friends you have on Facebook but how many friends your friends have. Well-connected chums make you particularly influential. The tracking system also would follow how frequently people post things on each other’s sites. It could even rate how successful somebody is in getting friends to read a news story or watch a video clip, according to people familiar with the patent filing. [...]

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