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Using Spock to find information about people on the Web

Robert Scoble — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 22:46:00 +0000

Here, co-founder of Spock, Jay Bhatti, gives us a demo of how Spock makes searching for people more powerful, easier, and more fun.

Tags: Spock, Jay Bhatti

Talking personal search with Spock

Robert Scoble — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 22:45:04 +0000

Spock is a search engine that won’t compete with Google, except in one area: searching personal information about people. Want to find an old friend? Look up a job candidate’s background? Find a person’s blog or other social networking page? Then Spock is for you. Here, we meet Jay Bhatti, Spock co-founder, who tells us why Spock is a search engine you should consider.

Tags: Spock, search engine, social networking, Jay Bhatti

People search on the Web with Spock

editor — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 07:01:19 +0000

One of the more talked about valley start-ups in recent months is Spock. Founded in 2006 by Jay Bhatti and Jaideep Singh, Spock is a people search Web site that aims to be the most comprehensive source of information about just about anyone. Spock crawls the Web looking for information about people famous and non-famous. And in wiki-like fashion, it lets users add tags and relevant links to its search results pages. The company demonstrated its product at the recent Web 2.0 Expo, and has been chatted up in numerous blogs and tech sites. Spock is still in private beta, but Singh gave the Mercury News a demo in this video.

Tags: Spock, Jay Bhatti, Jaideep Singh, search, Mercury News

Tim O’Reilly on Web 2.0

Kamla Bhatt — Fri, 25 May 2007 23:40:14 +0000

I caught up with Tim O’Reilly of O’Reilly Media at TiECon 2007, where he spoke about Web 2.0 and chaired a panel discussion on Web 2.0 with Navin Ashwin of BitTorrent; Alex Welch of Photobucket and Jaideep Singh of Spock. In this interview we talk extensively about Web 2.0 and what it means, and what are the defining characteristics of these companies. How do you harness the intelligence of users? Tim points out that Web 2.0 is not dominated by software, but by data, and that is a key differentiator of a Web 2.0 company. He points out, “The network is the platform,” and on the network the rules are different. Tune in to find out what Tim has to say about Web 2.0, a term he helped coin a couple of years ago.

Tags: Tim O’Reilly, O’Reilly Media, TiECon, Web 2.0, Web 2.0, Navin Ashwin, BitTorrent, Alex Welch, Photobucket, Jaideep Singh, Spock

Are Blogs Killing Free Speech?

Phil Leigh — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 21:39:34 +0000

The first amendment has always been nettlesome, but a thriving online community of bloggers is proof that excercising constitutional freedoms can be healthy and profitable. Blogs they also have a tendency to rock the boat, raising new challenges for corporations — and the courts — to navigate. This case began with a fairly typical talk radio station and its fairly typical blowhard personalities doing what they’re paid to do. They ruffle feathers. But this time, they ruffled the feathers of a listener who recorded potentially-offensive segments and then posted them to a blog. “Spocko,” the blogger, along with several others, contacted many of the radio station’s advertisers and encouraged them to stop advertising on the station. The station — KSFO-AM in San Francisco — is owned by ABC Radio Networks, which is owned by the Walt Disney Company. ABC asked Spocko’s Internet service provider to pull the clips down, and that ISP promptly complied. The story has appeared in papers from San Francisco to New York (including The New York Times). To help explain some of the legal implications of the case — and the free speech issues involved, Inside Digital Media’s Phil Leigh spoke with David Wittenstein of Dow Lohnes.

Tags: first amendment, KSFO, free speech, Inside Digital Media, Phil Leigh, David Wittenstein, Dow Lohnes