I’ll admit it. I didn’t know what Spock was at the beginning of the day. But soon I would get a mysterious e-mail from Ram over at Teknobites inviting me to participate in the service. Initially, I didn’t recognize the name “Ram” and I thought the whole thing was some sort of SPAM. But something told me to investigate the matter because the name “Ram” sounded somehow familiar. Long story short, I found out what the deal was, went over to the Spock website and did some reading up on this new search engine.
I new that if I was getting an invite to this whole “Spock Thing”, it had to be something different than the usual search engine. My instincts didn’t fail me, and it turns out that the search engine is focused on people. That’s right, you can type in a name and get all kinds of juicy info on that person. To see what output you’ll get I searched for one of my favorite people. You guessed it : Steve Nash!
You can click on the pic above to get a bigger view of things, but you get his picture, his age, various tags, a brief bio, and sites on the web where more Steve Nash info resides including Wikipedia, NBA.com profile, etc. Also on here, you can Contact Steve Nash, but only if there is contact information listed.So this seems like it would be a kind of cool service. What’s the coolest is that like social networking sites, you can claim your own identity and be the chief editor of your bio (unlike Wikipedia where you can get slammed by anyone). Like Wikipedia though, it does seem that once your profile is up, people can agree or disagree with some of the information posted including the tags/organizations are you are said to belong to.There is obviously concern about abuse with these bios but Spock says that they’re working to prevent and avoid or fix such problems. I’m sure that most of this will rely on the Spock community to keep things pretty honest, but again…We can see on Wikipedia how sometimes this doesn’t always work. Yeah…In the end, I guess we’ll have to wait and see how Spock turns out, but I think it’s a FANtastic idea and certainly an original one that will differentiate this engine amongst others. The only qualm I have right now is that no one has explained why it’s called Spock! I think I know enough about Spock, Vulcan Mind Melds and the like to able to draw possible reasons, but alas, I have no explanation. Any thoughts on this whole thing?P.S. I have some invites if you want’em, so either comment here or shoot me an
e-mail.
P.P.S. I wonder how hard it would be to claim-steal another’s identity on here?
June 16th, 2007 at 9:48 am
Ram invited me to this as well. I like the idea, and thanks for a thorough explanation.
June 16th, 2007 at 1:26 pm
In fairness listikal (and you’re welcome), I could’ve gotten a bit more detailed with the explanation but I guess it’s more or less all there. Anyone who wants some more info should check out some of the stories and press they’ve gotten through their website. *nod*
June 17th, 2007 at 3:24 pm
Thanks for the mention and sorry for sending mysterious email with out letting you know first.
June 17th, 2007 at 4:31 pm
If was anyone else Ram…Ha ha! Just kiddin’! If you’re nice enough to think of me, the least I can do is mention you in a post! Feel free to send me free invites anytime!
June 18th, 2007 at 2:27 am
sure buddy i will send.