Where Are They Now: Klout, DropBox, Assistly + MORE

One of the highlights of AllThingsD’s “D: Dive Into Mobile” conference in April was Twitter product head Michael Sippey’s 1-on-1 with Peter Kafka about Vine.
AllThingsD just released the full video of the conversation, and it is definitely worth a watch.
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This is the second part in a three-part series on how to build your online presence for truly social selling, inspired by research from Jon Ferrara, founder and CEO of social CRM developer Nimble.
In my last article, we discussed how you lay the groundwork for a truly socialized-selling strategy by researching and creating a buyer persona…

Video platform YouTube has been testing a new layout called One Channel for a few months and the revision is now available to any of the network’s members. Brands can adopt the design early if they so choose, but it will be required for all channels starting June 5.
The basic services and functions of YouTube will not change, but it will now be much more personalized and easier to navigate…

Financial services giant American Express and recovering daily deals company Groupon have banded together to inject an undisclosed amount of cash (though it’s apparently a ‘double-digit million Euro’ round) in European digital payments firm SumUp.
The investment being announced today follows another such ‘double-digit million Euro’ (reportedly $20+ million) Series A financing round closed in the second quarter of 2012, from b-to-v Partners, Shortcut Ventures, Tengelmann Ventures and a group of business angels…

Facebook used to have a blogging feature called Notes. It still does, but it got buried by the Timeline redesign and widely forgotten. Facebook needs to overhaul Notes, and signs say a refresh may already be in the works. It could help people express themselves, make Notes a legitimate competitor to Tumblr, and soften the blow of Facebook reportedly failing to buy Yahoo’s new baby…

Are you looking to create content that engages? Does your content connect with people and encourage them to engage? In this article I’ll show you 26 ways to make content that engages people, in an A-Z guide of tips. #1: Authors Matter Written content doesn’t exist without authors, whether constructing 140-character posts or 1000-word articles…

CNN and BuzzFeed are going for the social media gold with a new YouTube channel containing clips hand-picked for shareability.
BuzzFeed COO Jason Steinberg told the Wall Street Journal the project will cost his company in the low tens of millions. For reference, BuzzFeed just raised a $19.3 million round of funding…

Tesla certainly isn’t a loser anymore.
The car company’s stock topped $100 a share for the first time ever in early trading Tuesday, following a string of good news in recent weeks. Earlier this month, Tesla reported its first profitable quarter as a company, a hugely important milestone that helped send the stock up 25% in after-hours trading from its closing price of about $55, and sent it up more than 50% in the first three days of trading afterwards…

In early 2011, we looked at Assistly, Dropbox and Qriously as tools that could help small businesses and startups. We had to take a look — where is everyone now?
For some perspective, Facebook was at 400 million active users and Twitter had 200 million in the winter of 2010. Facebook is now publicly traded with 1…