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Definitely would suggest going beyond the Klout Score and implementing a mix of topics, topical scores, interest and influence into the Klout calculation. The raw Klout Score is a …

Also worth investigating is http://apis.io/ , a growing repository for API interface design patterns.

What sort of options do you have for curation, filtering? How do you find the wheat from the chafe?

Why? It protects the user's privacy, unlike Facebook. Ask them for their email address after they authenticate and make it an act of volition.

This is silly. You've licensed nearly every game you ever bought since the 90s, likely even before that. You've never owned it; you just felt like you did. Server-side storage and …

This is my next YC project.

Instagram's Terms essentially say you have to respect the copyright and license of the photos. However, their API doesn't provide any mechanism to know what those licenses and copy…

Which is why it behooves you to contact them and get clarification, exception, etc. The same rules don't apply to everyone equally if you can make the right case. Simply displaying…

Contacting them is your best option. Find some one to talk to, explain what you'd like to do, and how the terms restrict you, and see if you can't find a way to have an exception, …

The spirit of that is most likely: "You won't resell or grant your access to the API to other people, or allow someone else to to resell or grant access to the API." Not generally …

Twitter does make money on its API. It's done through channel partnerships. Is it as much as advertising? No. But still significant. Twitter's API is still sufficiently open. There…

This is clever. At my last startup we were building a tweet-based mechanism for buying and selling goods and services over Twitter. We'd use procedurally-generated haikus, along wi…

Playing entirely by the rules tends to put one at a competitive disadvantage in social these days. "c. You must not incentivize users to Like any Page other than your own site or a…

Not to be negative, and you've likely done some research here, but keep in mind the social network policies on incentivizing sharing and social actions: FB: "You must not incentivi…

While you can see this data from Facebook--and yes, that's jarring-- what you're allowed to do with it is something different. You can't sell it, you can't sell it to an ad network…

Yes, it is. There are ways to build authentic engagement and attention. The only usable situation for this is for prototyping at scale: if youre software needed to stress test read…

An 'ad' isn't the only activity Starbucks would post. We're in a less traditional paradigm here. Starbucks can do ad-hoc market research, community building, announce products... L…

I'm happy to answer questions in regards to Klout as far as I can. We utilize GNIP and Datasift both for different situations, but we're working on a different side of data than yo…

Singly's big offer isn't just the federation of identity and identity services/authentication (that's just a value add and a sourcepoint). It's treating content as collections of t…

When there are thousands upon thousands of 'partners' integrating their API, how does a consumer, or a business, sift through that shit and find the gems? How does Twitter even kno…

I understand the grammar of it, but the question is: if one implies, and you don't infer the implication-- did the implication exist? It's basically the tree falling in the forest.…

Where exactly is this 'implicit promise'? It's implied. Implication is in the eye of the reader/understander, not the stater/provider.

... Which you could them pull into a database and filter with your Regex after the API. What does the noise cost you? It's a solvable problem. true, the expanded results may keep y…

Thanks for mentioning the Klout API docs ( http://developer.klout.com ). They're a work in progress, but we lean heavily on Mashery's I/O Docs solution for self-documenting respons…

It actually resembles Whit.li ( http://www.whit.li/ ) a lot more than Klout.