Comments on: PeekYou: Spock Has Competition http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/30/peekyou-spock-has-competition/ Startup and Technology News Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:32:12 -0800 hourly 1 By: PeekYou « SocialWeb http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/30/peekyou-spock-has-competition/comment-page-1/#comment-2066305 PeekYou « SocialWeb Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:47:34 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/30/peekyou-spock-has-competition/#comment-2066305 [...] techcrunch [...] [...] techcrunch [...]

]]> By: Giovanni http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/30/peekyou-spock-has-competition/comment-page-1/#comment-1592338 Giovanni Tue, 04 Sep 2007 15:50:39 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/30/peekyou-spock-has-competition/#comment-1592338 Try Wink - I've found it to be the easiest and most intuitive way to find people. Who cares about celebrity profiles...I can google them. Id rather just see what my friends are up to. Wink works wonders when you register and create your own profile. Try Wink – I’ve found it to be the easiest and most intuitive way to find people. Who cares about celebrity profiles…I can google them. Id rather just see what my friends are up to. Wink works wonders when you register and create your own profile.

]]> By: rod / techfold.com http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/30/peekyou-spock-has-competition/comment-page-1/#comment-1584551 rod / techfold.com Fri, 31 Aug 2007 19:00:14 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/30/peekyou-spock-has-competition/#comment-1584551 Spock, peekyou, whatever. Yay - crawling the socialnets. MOAR NETS! Can someone explain what the demand for this technology is, beyond a fitful spike of ego searches? As usual, peekyou is unable to find me, even though I run a standard wordpress blog with a nice about page. So --- why would I go here instead of Facebook or Linked In? Spock, peekyou, whatever. Yay – crawling the socialnets. MOAR NETS! Can someone explain what the demand for this technology is, beyond a fitful spike of ego searches?

As usual, peekyou is unable to find me, even though I run a standard wordpress blog with a nice about page. So — why would I go here instead of Facebook or Linked In?

]]> By: Milida http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/30/peekyou-spock-has-competition/comment-page-1/#comment-1584436 Milida Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:51:08 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/30/peekyou-spock-has-competition/#comment-1584436 Well actually Spock is down now completely. What a useless site! I agree with Cat Eyes. PeekYou rocks! Well actually Spock is down now completely. What a useless site! I agree with Cat Eyes. PeekYou rocks!

]]> By: Cat Eyes http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/30/peekyou-spock-has-competition/comment-page-1/#comment-1584333 Cat Eyes Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:52:04 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/30/peekyou-spock-has-competition/#comment-1584333 Well actually it was PeekYou that could find me and most of my obscure friends, not Spock. At this stage, however, I don't think the depth of data is the real indicator. If you judge only by the structure and layout of the site, PeekYou is much more inviting. The design is simply a cut above Spock and Wink's. The organization of their data is also more helpful. You can narrow people down by location in a very systematic way, whereas while Spock has more people listed, a lot of them are impossible to find, with "Greater New York area" etc for a location, instead of a Country/State/City base which is easy to hierarchically navigate. Spock has too many tags. Many weird and unintuitive ones, that sound like sentence fragments. While this gives users the ability to search by many keyword combinations, for any given query you get hundreds of thousands of results, making it virtually impossible to find who you're looking for. And their Advanced Search features simply blow. To weed out all their stupid and irrelevant tags people would have to spend their lives voting them down. No one will bother On PeekYou's FAQ they say they limit their tag number to 25. They also divide them by category life/work/school for greater semantic navigation. PeekYou also lets you edit tags directly, even delete them, so if they are too long winded or stupid, you can clean them up in a second. I also like how PeekYou categorizes links, instead of throwing them on the wall like Spock does, and it lets you delete bad/broken links directly, or edit incorrect URLs, and most importantly, enter descriptions for the links so people know what to expect, or have even an introduction to that person without clicking on any of the links, just from their descriptions. Spock is so far behind in all those features. Not a user-friendly site. PeekYou is a definite winner as far as I can see. Sounds like Spock blew all their money in PR so we can hear about them, while sites like PeekYou got busy actually building great features and applications. Well actually it was PeekYou that could find me and most of my obscure friends, not Spock. At this stage, however, I don’t think the depth of data is the real indicator.

If you judge only by the structure and layout of the site, PeekYou is much more inviting. The design is simply a cut above Spock and Wink’s. The organization of their data is also more helpful. You can narrow people down by location in a very systematic way, whereas while Spock has more people listed, a lot of them are impossible to find, with “Greater New York area” etc for a location, instead of a Country/State/City base which is easy to hierarchically navigate.

Spock has too many tags. Many weird and unintuitive ones, that sound like sentence fragments. While this gives users the ability to search by many keyword combinations, for any given query you get hundreds of thousands of results, making it virtually impossible to find who you’re looking for. And their Advanced Search features simply blow. To weed out all their stupid and irrelevant tags people would have to spend their lives voting them down. No one will bother

On PeekYou’s FAQ they say they limit their tag number to 25. They also divide them by category life/work/school for greater semantic navigation. PeekYou also lets you edit tags directly, even delete them, so if they are too long winded or stupid, you can clean them up in a second.

I also like how PeekYou categorizes links, instead of throwing them on the wall like Spock does, and it lets you delete bad/broken links directly, or edit incorrect URLs, and most importantly, enter descriptions for the links so people know what to expect, or have even an introduction to that person without clicking on any of the links, just from their descriptions. Spock is so far behind in all those features. Not a user-friendly site.

PeekYou is a definite winner as far as I can see. Sounds like Spock blew all their money in PR so we can hear about them, while sites like PeekYou got busy actually building great features and applications.

]]> By: ricco500 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/30/peekyou-spock-has-competition/comment-page-1/#comment-1584222 ricco500 Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:47:15 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/30/peekyou-spock-has-competition/#comment-1584222 looks like peekyou has a faster site. You would think with all the money spock raised they could optimize their hosting. looks like peekyou has a faster site. You would think with all the money spock raised they could optimize their hosting.

]]> By: medaura http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/30/peekyou-spock-has-competition/comment-page-1/#comment-1584197 medaura Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:30:36 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/30/peekyou-spock-has-competition/#comment-1584197 The real question is how do these sites get their data? Did they buy it? Did they steel it? Call it a preference but I would rather use spock as they generate results as opposed to peekyou wich is crap with a nice rapper. What are you talking about?? Spock only spiders Wikipedia, LinkedIn, and MySpace. PeekYou gathers info from many more sites than that. They have multiple profiles for the same person, and millions of dead famous people too. That's how they make up their 100+ million profiles. Look at this http://spock.com/Sylvia-Llewelyn-Davies What a poor excuse of a profile!! A living actress' mugshot on the profile of a dead 18th century nobody. Way to prop up the numbers. It is SPOCK that gathers data illicitly. They tag people as pedophiles and rapists, gather tags using fake Facebook applications which users never gave any consent for, and they don't let you directly edit your information, including slanderous tags, like you can on PeekYou. Grapple sounds like he's a Spock intern, using Spock's classic libel-style of handling users and competitors. The real question is how do these sites get their data? Did they buy it? Did they steel it?
Call it a preference but I would rather use spock as they generate results as opposed to peekyou wich is crap with a nice rapper.

What are you talking about?? Spock only spiders Wikipedia, LinkedIn, and MySpace. PeekYou gathers info from many more sites than that. They have multiple profiles for the same person, and millions of dead famous people too. That’s how they make up their 100+ million profiles. Look at this http://spock.co...Llewelyn-Davies What a poor excuse of a profile!! A living actress’ mugshot on the profile of a dead 18th century nobody. Way to prop up the numbers.

It is SPOCK that gathers data illicitly. They tag people as pedophiles and rapists, gather tags using fake Facebook applications which users never gave any consent for, and they don’t let you directly edit your information, including slanderous tags, like you can on PeekYou.

Grapple sounds like he’s a Spock intern, using Spock’s classic libel-style of handling users and competitors.

]]> By: grapple http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/30/peekyou-spock-has-competition/comment-page-1/#comment-1584159 grapple Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:09:02 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/30/peekyou-spock-has-competition/#comment-1584159 The real question is how do these sites get their data? Did they buy it? Did they steel it? Call it a preference but I would rather use spock as they generate results as opposed to peekyou wich is crap with a nice rapper. The real question is how do these sites get their data? Did they buy it? Did they steel it?
Call it a preference but I would rather use spock as they generate results as opposed to peekyou wich is crap with a nice rapper.

]]> By: francine hardaway http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/30/peekyou-spock-has-competition/comment-page-1/#comment-1584124 francine hardaway Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:52:51 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/30/peekyou-spock-has-competition/#comment-1584124 I looked up some obscure friends of mine on both and Spock had them while Peek You didn't. PeekYou also didn't have much info about me, even though there's stuff all over the Internet. It doesn't seem to gather information the way Spock does. Also, I had a real problem (using Firefox) trying to add a photo from my own computer. Perhaps it was the Mac and the browser, but I didn't like Peek You at all. I looked up some obscure friends of mine on both and Spock had them while Peek You didn’t. PeekYou also didn’t have much info about me, even though there’s stuff all over the Internet. It doesn’t seem to gather information the way Spock does. Also, I had a real problem (using Firefox) trying to add a photo from my own computer. Perhaps it was the Mac and the browser, but I didn’t like Peek You at all.

]]> By: James S. http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/30/peekyou-spock-has-competition/comment-page-1/#comment-1584121 James S. Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:50:05 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/30/peekyou-spock-has-competition/#comment-1584121 "@bankblast: 50+M profiles online. It doesn’t say that they’re all PeekYou :). It’s funny how these sites pop up and generate such large communities so rapidly. It’s like no one wants to be left out of the one that turns into Stephenson’s Metaverse." And you thought that sites like that will open with 10 profiles ??? Ofcourse they collect data first .... “@bankblast: 50+M profiles online. It doesn’t say that they’re all PeekYou :) . It’s funny how these sites pop up and generate such large communities so rapidly. It’s like no one wants to be left out of the one that turns into Stephenson’s Metaverse.”

And you thought that sites like that will open with 10 profiles ??? Ofcourse they collect data first ….

]]> By: Patrick Farrell http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/30/peekyou-spock-has-competition/comment-page-1/#comment-1584034 Patrick Farrell Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:01:43 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/30/peekyou-spock-has-competition/#comment-1584034 @bankblast: 50+M profiles online. It doesn't say that they're all PeekYou :). It's funny how these sites pop up and generate such large communities so rapidly. It's like no one wants to be left out of the one that turns into Stephenson's Metaverse. @bankblast: 50+M profiles online. It doesn’t say that they’re all PeekYou :) . It’s funny how these sites pop up and generate such large communities so rapidly. It’s like no one wants to be left out of the one that turns into Stephenson’s Metaverse.

]]> By: Unjustified Motorsports http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/30/peekyou-spock-has-competition/comment-page-1/#comment-1583943 Unjustified Motorsports Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:05:03 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/30/peekyou-spock-has-competition/#comment-1583943 I like PeekYou a lot more than Spock. I guess it's just a preference thing. I like PeekYou a lot more than Spock. I guess it’s just a preference thing.

]]> By: Duncan Riley http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/30/peekyou-spock-has-competition/comment-page-1/#comment-1583920 Duncan Riley Fri, 31 Aug 2007 12:51:26 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/30/peekyou-spock-has-competition/#comment-1583920 robram I only accessed via a Mac, and using Safari as well :-) robram
I only accessed via a Mac, and using Safari as well :-)

]]> By: www.bankblast.com http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/30/peekyou-spock-has-competition/comment-page-1/#comment-1583814 www.bankblast.com Fri, 31 Aug 2007 11:53:18 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/30/peekyou-spock-has-competition/#comment-1583814 50+M profiles it says at the top, damn that sounds like alot ! 50+M profiles it says at the top, damn that sounds like alot !

]]> By: robram http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/30/peekyou-spock-has-competition/comment-page-1/#comment-1583774 robram Fri, 31 Aug 2007 11:24:57 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/30/peekyou-spock-has-competition/#comment-1583774 Hmm, can't seem to register - a problem with Macs, pehaps...? Hmm, can’t seem to register – a problem with Macs, pehaps…?

]]> By: Dave http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/30/peekyou-spock-has-competition/comment-page-1/#comment-1583411 Dave Fri, 31 Aug 2007 07:38:59 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/30/peekyou-spock-has-competition/#comment-1583411 Mashable ran a post comparing a couple more social search tools, this space is heating up; mashable.com/2007/07/18/people-search/ We are behind Explode (http://ex.plode.us) and have just launched a Facebook app for it which brings social search to Facebook users. Those interested can find out more here: http://curverider.co.uk/blog/2007/08/30/starting-to-open-up-facebook-with-explode/ Mashable ran a post comparing a couple more social search tools, this space is heating up; mashable.com/2007/07/18/people-search/

We are behind Explode (http://ex.plode.us) and have just launched a Facebook app for it which brings social search to Facebook users. Those interested can find out more here: http://curverid...k-with-explode/

]]> By: no thanks http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/30/peekyou-spock-has-competition/comment-page-1/#comment-1583256 no thanks Fri, 31 Aug 2007 06:30:53 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/30/peekyou-spock-has-competition/#comment-1583256 What a strange name for a company! What a strange name for a company!

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