Comments on: Does Spock.com Need a Guy Kawasaki or a Jason Calacanis?

By: The Way The Internet Should Be! » Blog Archive » Pownce - it???s not very original but it???s going to be bigger than twitter

Mon, 02 Jul 2007 20:45:21 +0000

[...] playing field, you only need to look at a couple of recent launches to see the power of having a ???web celeb??? as a figure head. Jason Calacanis at Mahalo & Guy Kawasaki at Truemors have been able to [...]

By: Deep Jive Interests » Must ... Refrain ... From Ridiculing ... Kevin Rose's ... Pownce -- !

Thu, 28 Jun 2007 01:57:32 +0000

[...] because of why Truemors was “successful”, why Mahalo gets 90% of the press its getting, why Spock needs more users, or even half of the reason why Digg is the darling of the web2.0 [...]

By: Tony Hung

Tony Hung — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 23:59:29 +0000

Hi Marlo,

I need a first name and last name, actually for this to work. send it to me at anthony{dot}hung{at}gmail.com if you want;)

By: Marlo

Marlo — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 21:56:02 +0000

Hi Tony!

May I have one? Thanks in advance.

By: Eric Berlin

Eric Berlin — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 20:14:31 +0000

No thanks, I’ve checked it out already!

Cheers ~ EB

By: Tony Hung

Tony Hung — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 20:13:10 +0000

Thanks for chiming in, Eric.

Do you want an invite? :)

By: Eric Berlin

Eric Berlin — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 19:57:33 +0000

Tony – I think you’ve nailed it on the head in stating that people will need a compelling reason to leave large existing people- and networking-centric communities such as myspace and linkedin.

I also agree that this *could* be a useful service… but will in a sense be competing with social networking communities as well as google itself.

In other words, if Spock can provide search-specific and relevant info that myspace, linkedin, etc. AND google can’t, then they’re really onto something.