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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
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/search_insider/?p=695
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-Golub
"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
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-Golub