Hi guys,
Spock.com is a startup / web application that specializes in finding information about people. I will be posting my own thoughts about it a later date (soon), but suffice it to say that it does a little more than scan social networks. It also search engines, and automagically creates a permanent page for people, along with tags and so on. Pretty nifty stuff.
Problem is that its in closed beta, and open to invitation only. Mike Arrington had 100 invites to give away about a week ago, but you can bet that they’ve dried up like his warm and fuzzies over Silicon Valley’s imminently bursting bubble.
The good thing, of course, is that I *do* have an invite to give away (maybe even more than one).
If you’d like to see Spock in action — and more importantly, create a profile for yourself (I wanted to secure “Tony Hung” so the bajillion other Tony Hung’s in the world, such as that Tony Hung at DynaFund Ventures, won’t get the first one), all you have to do is leave a message below explaining why you’d like one.
Make it funny though, as I’m grumpy as heck for having worked this long weekend and I need to be amused.
The winner will be chosen by me in another 72 hours or thereabouts.
Cheers,
Tony
May 22nd, 2007 at 1:09 pm | Permalink
That was the startup who got in trouble for having a massively sexist pair of founders, right?
I’d be very interested in checking them out, just to see what happens to women who’ve signed up for a profile there.
May 22nd, 2007 at 1:17 pm | Permalink
Yep, that’s them! ;)
(Besides all that fooferah, consider yourself entered.)
Cheers
t @ dji
May 22nd, 2007 at 2:21 pm | Permalink
I would like an invitation. The only thing somewhat laughable on such short notice is possible slogans for spock.com:
1. To use anything else would be illogical.
2. Our next venture will be a search engine for all those people you HATE: kkkhhhaaannn.com.
3. Our disaster recovery plan is called “Project Genesis”.
4. Search long and prosper.
5. If we went with kirk.com, all we would be indexing is “easy hot chicks”.
Ok, if you aren’t a Star Trek nut then you wouldn’t get most of these but it was worth a shot. :-)
May 22nd, 2007 at 2:44 pm | Permalink
Oooh, oooh, pick me: http://gpmb.wordpress.com/2007/05/18/if-only-all-blunders-were-this-funny-pass-me-an-egg/
May 22nd, 2007 at 2:55 pm | Permalink
I’d like to have an invite so that I can secure Leonard Nimoy @ spock.com, if at all possible.
May 22nd, 2007 at 5:27 pm | Permalink
David — that’s some funny stuff. I like kkkhhhaaannn.com, heh heh ;)
t @ dji
May 23rd, 2007 at 3:23 am | Permalink
I’d love an invite, if only for the reason that I heard of a VC viewing my company as a competitor to Spock, and based on my limited understanding I just don’t think that’s true.
You know how people tend to group companies in categories which they already think they understand ….
But to be honest, there’s probably another reader who the invite would mean so much more too.
May 24th, 2007 at 4:03 pm | Permalink
Tony,
Can I have a spock invitation, please ?
Thanks,
Prashanth
May 24th, 2007 at 10:46 pm | Permalink
I saw the Spock presentation during the keynote at the Web 2.0 conference in April. Very Cool. I would love to play with is ASAP.
May 25th, 2007 at 4:38 pm | Permalink
To secure my name on it would be the good one to pick. But I’m thinking on an evil plan to increase my blog’s traffic by doing something similar with yours invites. ;)
I saw Tim O’Reilly’s blog entry about itand got really excited about the possibilities. Would you help a Brazillian pal to increase his traffic by donating one of your invites? (makes puppy face)
August 19th, 2007 at 9:01 am | Permalink
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