http://tinfinger.blogspot.com/.....cks-1.html

1) a general question- why it wasn’t enough Wikipedia? the project with proven record as a Web Encyclopedia, at least for those known and famous… It wasn’t enough Wikipedia for the NORMAL people, so here has arrived Spock. but nobody had problems I believe with the celebrities’ stories on the Web

2) about Spock:
- why did you decide that Spock searches ONLY on Social Networks? (as from your response to “Jason and antje”)
I think it was clear for everyone that Spock checks Web 2.0 for the Web 2.0 people, and of course it looks at the normal Web for the non Web 2.0 people!
so:
a) as far as I know, wikipedia, the world’s largest DB about all known and famous people, have been already processed by Spock- that means Spock already has everyone listed on Wikipedia.

do you wanna say us Tinfinger will beat wikipedia first of all?

- you say this new Who’s Who can search the Blogs and so on- well, Spock can search everything that’s on the Web. If Google “knows something”- so also Spock will

do you wanna say us Tinfinger will beat Google after it beats Wikipedia?

hm… I have a doubt sincerely. About the mission first of all- it was probably enough Wikipedia for us + it was really needed to add the Web 2.0 part that has been done by Spock…

Well, good luck however!
Kind Regards,
Andrey Golub- find me on Spock
http://www.spock.com/Andrey-Golub

TV is celebrity obsessed, and so are the magazines at the supermarket counter.

Ordinary people aren’t. If you look at the AOL search data or a random sample of a million blog posts, celebrities barely register. Yes, some people are interested in celebrities, but they’re also into Halo 3 and thumbtacks, playing games online, etc. In a sample of livejournal blogs I looked at, there was about as much interest in Paris Hilton as there is in Plato.

That in itself will not make this site a success. Particularly when IE 7 can’t even detect a feed on a famous person profile page.

Our experience indicates that the vast majority of mainstream users don’t really know what RSS is (assuming that’s what you are referring to when you say “new feeds”).

While techies and highly web savvy people such as the TechCrunch audience love RSS, it just hasn’t caught on in the wider community. To put this into perspective, of the 10,000+ subscribers to 2 of our sites, less than 2% use RSS, the rest use email.

That said, our audience would be 21 year olds and upwards. Maybe a younger audience might user RSS more.

A cursory search for a famous person leaves me with the impression that the content quality is very poor. For example, the page for Gordon Brown, the Prime Minister of the UK is out of date (says he is Chancellor of the Exchequer) and what is there doesn’t read well at all, in fact some of it doesn’t even make sense.

Ironically the Google ads on the site were more up to date and relevant than the TinFinger content. Not compelling at all at this stage.

two years to do this? did they recruit at the special olympics? wow another pile of pointlessness.

I don’t know how this comment system works (I posted comments withy URIs earlier). Anyway, see Linking Open Data Community page (just google the search pattern).

You can also find me (LinkedIn, Facebook, Google etc. easily via my Name (I dare not place my personal linked data URI in this thread just in case it invalidates this attempt to comment).

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