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Best in Blogs: Klout Craziness, Google Drive Arrives, and Why Facebook's IPO Will Really Be Delayed
Never mind your credit score, your Sleep Number, your body temperature or cholesterol level, whether you dwell in the 99 percent or the one percent, even how many "friends" you have convinced Big Brother Facebook that you have. The new digit for judging the well-being of your existence is your Klout number. "Much as Google's search engine attempts to rank the relevance of every web page, Klout is on a mission to rank the influence of every person online," explains Epicenter. "Its algorithms comb through social media data: If you have a public account with Twitter, you have a Klout score, whether you know it or not ... You can supplement that score by letting Klout link to Google+, Facebook, or LinkedIn." Cool, right?! Epicenter continues: "Even if you have no idea what your Klout score is, there's a chance that it's already affecting your life." The story then talks about people being booted from job interviews because of low Klout scores. Whoa - really?
Best in Blogs: Hologram Tupac, The $5 Million Wristwatch, and TIME's Most Influential
If you told a music fan 50 years ago that Tupac Shakur would be performing by hologram at Coachella, he would have said: "I don't know what any of those words mean." But it happened, sort of. The rapper, who was murdered in 1996, "rose from the dead and stole the show at Coachella, performing alongside Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre. 'What the f- is up, Coachella?' a hologram of the rapper asked the audience," The Daily Beast reports. The virtual Tupac "interacted with Snoop Dogg and the audience before performing two songs and disappearing in an explosion of light. Coachella marked the first time a hologram has given a performance that was not delivered during the singer's lifetime." Video of the performance is around the Web but being taken down faster that warring gangstas -- it seems to be still standing here at Break.com. What made the performance unbelievable was how believable it looked. "The life-size Tupac was amazingly realistic, down to the late rapper's signature tattoos, Timberland boots, jewelry and movements," said MTV News. Sadly, the scientists were unable to resurrect a holographic shirt for Tupac.
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