I had an interesting conversation with Hayes Davis of Appozite about influence calculations and their importance. I have to admit I hadn’t really spend much time thinking about the big picture of the real time web and how influence fits into it, I found Klout and the like interesting but mostly in terms of adding context.
However, during the course of our conversation last night it occurred to me that an influence metric could prove to be a very fundamental part of being able to extract any useful information from the deluge of data the web is now producing.
