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Re: SocialWhois » Discuss with aqualung about socialsoftware

Ric — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 07:44:07 -0000

This is an interesting idea ... fits into a bunch of other activity around attention, identity and authenticity ... I'll watch where it heads

Re: Topic vs Author

Ric — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:33:19 -0000

Cheers, Shai ... this is an area where I think we all have a bit more to learn, and you are contributing to the teaching!

Re: Topic vs Author

Shai Coggins — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:21:59 -0000

Thanks for the post and interesting discussion! :)

Re: Ruth and Lee

Ric — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 09:35:23 -0000

thanks Mark ... I spoke at both funerals and it's hard to judge your own words. Thanks for the thoughts as well ....

Re: Ruth and Lee

mastermark — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 08:17:23 -0000

I'm so sorry for your family's loss, Ric. FWIW, I don't think that saluting great people is an indulgence - more like a duty. You did yours well.

Re: Looking back on 2007

Andrey Golub — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 12:29:03 -0000

thank you for the comment back, Ric. I think there is still something to discuss for us two :)

about "your place" and "their place"- hm... I am not sure I understand what do you mean exactly under "my place". a your home page? a your OpenID page? something else "your"?
Lots of people have their own Personal Web Sites, where they put all their info- but it's not the same as an Online Identity Monitoring and Management tool as Spock, I believe, is gonna become.

on "your place" you could have all your references- all about you declared by you. OK. This could be your own home page or the place like SocialURL or Naymz- a mix of "my place" and SN.
but this your place- how will it help you knowing what the others have written about you? what the others think about you? So you'll anyway have to manage tons of google search agents, pools (? :lol:) and so on. now else you can realize your own "my place"?
I think also OpenID could become a Social Network, to allow Networking for its "own" users.

about Social Networks that Spock is no different from those- look, I am sorry but I do completely disagree :) maybe my experience is different from your- but where did you see a Social Network that wants ALL about you? I have my professional profile and professional endorsements on LinkedIn, where there are also my business connections, I have some funny pics, lots of poke-friends etc on Facebook where I relax and sometimes do some stupid things, I have my twitter buddies on twitter and we twitter all together :), I participate on 10+ Social Networks and so? Sometimes I do really forget which Networks I take part of!
and so on. I never put it all in one place- 'coz Social Networks are planned for Networking, each one has its "specialization"... and to be able managing all this- a META Network had to appear- and here is Spock, I am very happy- so why you aren't also? :)

Spock is a Search Engine + my digital identity aggregator. it's not similar to LinkedIn or Facebook, since its mission is to collect Web Links about me + collect the community opinion about me (tags) and so on. It's just an aggregated Digital Identity. Is Facebook similar to this?
Hm... I have a doubts.

Spock needs this info about you since it's a Search Engine, it will later perform search by all this META data of different kind- Web pages, SN pages, Web 2.0 tags (content, tags).
I do not know why you so much disagree with the idea to have a META data based search engine... I think it's absolutely logical- it's the next generation of Search Engines, since it's a META for all Web, it's a META for all Web 2.0 plus it's a community powered project.
hm... see not so much similarities with Facebook, honestly.

hope to have convinced you to participate actively, not only watch!
if not yet- I'll come back again later :)

Kind Regards,
Andrey Golub- a happy Spock user and Evangelist
http://www.spock.com/Andrey...

Re: Never break the chain? ... sorry, but ....

Ric — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 07:36:02 -0000

Jazz - no problem! Nice of you to drop by ...

Re: Never break the chain? ... sorry, but ....

Jazz — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 06:54:34 -0000

thanks :)

Re: Looking back on 2007

Ric — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 08:53:50 -0000

Andrey ... harsh words! And mine are amongst some of the milder comments I've seen about Spock :-)

"to "put it all in one place" finally" - yes I'd love that, but I want it to be MY place, not someone else's ... Spock is no different to any one of a dozen social networks - they all want to be the ONE place I keep my data, but I don't want any of them owning it, I want ME to own it.

BTW - you've noticed I'm still there ... I'm watching

Re: Looking back on 2007

Andrey Golub — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:57:09 -0000

Can I ask you, Ric, if after having joined Spock you remain with the same "great opinion" about this new cutting edge People Search Engine, that several bloggers call Killer Application for the Web 2.0 btw? ;)

it's really shocking, probably the worst feed-back about a beta software I've even read in my 10 years practice :)...
I think you were just in a bad mood. The same is true about Plaxo- now it's greatest software but the beginning wasn't easy- but how it could be easy for the innovative things?

I can't believe that you Ric haven't recognized under Spock a unique project of such kind- probably a dream for lots of social networkers, to "put it all in one place" finally? It's about Digital Identity Management, it's about People Search Engine, it's about Open Social Web, it's about Social Engine 2.0- not too much to call it "most-hated social network" (I read your disclaimer- it's just your opinion, I understand :lol:)

+ do you know lots of other so good working PEOPLE search engines? Or do you know lots of another search engines 2.0 where the community, each and every node, can collaborate and contribute to the work of the Search Engine?

well, I believe you'll change your opinion very soon if not already done.
Well the issue with invitations is never easy for any new Social 2.0 Service, you know it. I followed Spock when they were in that period when many people were unhappy of how the invitations were done. But then it was all fixed, as far as I know. Now it looks much much better and if you look for the latest news about Spock- there are always more articles like this-
"Spock: The People Search Wiki"
http://blogs.mediapost.com/...
than the negative "first-impression" opinions of the very first days of Spock.

if you wanna have a chat about it- I'm always happy to get contacted.

Warm Regards,
Andrey Golub- a Spock Evangelist and Blogger
http://www.spock.com/Andrey...

Re: Looking back on 2007

Ric — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 05:37:46 -0000

Joaquin - welcome back! I think you only have to look over to the right to see I'm still attached to coComment! Good to see that it's working with disqus now, too - did you have something to do with that?

Re: links for 2008-01-09

Ric — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 05:35:01 -0000

That's funny - I don't think it'll last six weeks let alone months ...

Re: links for 2008-01-09

Tim Riley — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 19:57:17 -0000

Of course, the Sony BMG move to drop DRM is being done in the dumbest way possible: http://scalzi.com/whatever/...

Re: Looking back on 2007

joaquin — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 13:07:41 -0000

Hi, Nice re-cap of 2007. As you mentioned we did a face-lift last year and run into some issues. Fortunately we managed to correct all the issues our users where encountering, and always tried to communicate our progress to them. It seems to have paid off, we are now over 860,000 users! We are constantly improving our service, and security problems like the one you mentioned are being address by communicating better our existing security features, whitelisting (introduced in 07) and blacklist (available since the beginning) had our user known about our blacklist, this problem would have been prevented .
You can reach me at joaquin@cocoment.com if you have any other questions or issues.
Thanks you again for this 07 industry recap.
Joaquin

Re: Busted!

user — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:53:50 -0000

comment

Re: disqussion underway

123 — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 11:49:18 -0000

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Re: disqussion underway

anon — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 12:44:54 -0000

coco

Re: disqussion underway

Ric — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 06:51:27 -0000

Daniel - perhaps you should be talking directly to Joaquin! Will try to hook you up via email ...

Re: The def:diff model again ...

monkchips — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 13:14:07 -0000

how can we help?

Re: disqussion underway

obscurelyfamous — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 04:13:34 -0000

Welcome to Disqus!

We're very happy to have you on board. Don't hesitate to let us know what you need: help@disqus.com

One of our goals is to enhance the experience without forcibly changing how you use other services. We're open about working with together with other services so feel free to contact me about this.

Re: disqussion underway

Ric — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 10:53:57 -0000

Thanks for the input Joaquin - have emailed you ... sure hope you can figure something out.

Re: disqussion underway

joaquin — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 09:32:21 -0000

Hi,
Let me get back to you on the issues if cocomment is compatible with disqus, if I understood your question properly. We hope you don't stop using cocomment. I will find the asnwer and get back to you.
In the meantime you can reach me at joaquin@cocomment.com

Tks
Joaquin

Re: The def:diff model again ...

Ric — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 09:00:14 -0000

Forgive me for commenting first, but I wanted to test disqus ... so far it seems to be working.