I retired from personal blogging in July 2008.
But you can find me over at http://blog.xero.com.
Like Nic I’m wondering why people are inviting me into yet another social networking site?
What’s so special about Spock?
Update: Read the comment from Nat
There’s nothing special about Spock except that they spam using your Google Mail contacts list. I’ve heard reports that their UI likes to sneak in the “invite everyone†option even after you’ve selected only a few people to invite. I’ve had a dozen invites from people in the last week, almost all from this kind of mistake. Someone gets an invite, thinks “wonder what this is?â€, signs up and in the process ends up spamming their friends. Before anyone discovers “there’s no there thereâ€, a new wave of people are signing up to figure out what’s going on and are in turn spamming their friends. Avoid.
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I’m sort of feeling the same way, despite being from a younger generation! So for those who invited me, like Nic & Rod here’s a question why another one? LinkedIn & Facebook are more than enough to keep up with I think.
They’re really another one of those people search outfits like Wink and a couple others.
Spock have been busy mining LinkedIn, Myspace, and a host of other similar sites, then attempting to link these profiles together. It also encourages the people that know you to link, tag and categorise you. In reality all that’s happening here is that a rather intrusive (but valuable to the owners, I guess) people-search engine is being built by the collective efforts of the people joining it.
I find the premise a little like blackmail - unless you sign up to Spock, you cannot hope to control the associations made between your various online personae. And I don’t like it.
spok unlike other site, crawls the web for everything there is online about you, your blog, your linked in profile.
You already exist on spock, with tags and links (yes it’s a bit evil like that) by signing up you can own your own profile and control your tags etc
There’s nothing special about Spock except that they spam using your Google Mail contacts list. I’ve heard reports that their UI likes to sneak in the “invite everyone” option even after you’ve selected only a few people to invite. I’ve had a dozen invites from people in the last week, almost all from this kind of mistake. Someone gets an invite, thinks “wonder what this is?”, signs up and in the process ends up spamming their friends. Before anyone discovers “there’s no there there”, a new wave of people are signing up to figure out what’s going on and are in turn spamming their friends. Avoid.
I know one of the Silicon Valley folks involved with spock. Can’t really comment on the site, other than “what Nat said”.
I do know they have had a few serious wads of cash chucked into the idea and been running a closed alpha/beta for quite a while.
Went to check if Spock indexed me: my LinkedIn profile, some publications, some old OASIS work with UDDI and CIQ and … surprise-surprise … Techcrunch !!!
When did Arrington wrote about me or my ZetaPrints.com and I didn’t notice? :-)
A google search for that domain had no results. Where did Spock get it from?
spock only spams your gmail list if you actually ask it to