Comments on: Spock http://www.nnyman.com/personal/2007/12/08/spock/ Niko Nyman's blog on shifting topics. Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:12:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Kenneth Udut http://www.nnyman.com/personal/2007/12/08/spock/comment-page-1/#comment-102223 Kenneth Udut Fri, 08 Feb 2008 23:31:22 +0000 http://www.nnyman.com/personal/2007/12/08/spock/#comment-102223 <p>Kenneth Udut (me) is hooked on Spock. If you think at all outside the box, you can start to see possibilities with Spock that would be extremely difficult, if not impossible, using any other service.</p> <p>For example, I created my own "reunion.com" or "classmates.com" style linking for members of my very very tiny high school. We all knew each other, I verified their information - not using a boring old email address but by other information, such as knowing that this Alvarez was the same guy I went to school with rather than the 37 other Alvarezes with the same name that did not. I recognized his eyebrows and where he grew up from another profile. I linked to him, found his myspace page, sent him a message and blammo, we're found friends again. This would have been very difficult otherwise.</p> <p>I've been finding co-workers of mine from the past. By linking them together as related by being co-workers, I created my own tiny little Linkedin. Now it's not with an official name, just through using nice, easy loose tags. No joining required. Nothing elaborate. Just utilizing the easy, clean interface of spock.</p> <p>Look me up.</p> <p>http://www.spock.com/Kenneth-Udut-zeeIb1Ou</p> Kenneth Udut (me) is hooked on Spock. If you think at all outside the box, you can start to see possibilities with Spock that would be extremely difficult, if not impossible, using any other service.

For example, I created my own “reunion.com” or “classmates.com” style linking for members of my very very tiny high school. We all knew each other, I verified their information – not using a boring old email address but by other information, such as knowing that this Alvarez was the same guy I went to school with rather than the 37 other Alvarezes with the same name that did not. I recognized his eyebrows and where he grew up from another profile. I linked to him, found his myspace page, sent him a message and blammo, we’re found friends again. This would have been very difficult otherwise.

I’ve been finding co-workers of mine from the past. By linking them together as related by being co-workers, I created my own tiny little Linkedin. Now it’s not with an official name, just through using nice, easy loose tags. No joining required. Nothing elaborate. Just utilizing the easy, clean interface of spock.

Look me up.

http://www.spock.com/Kenneth-Udut-zeeIb1Ou

]]> By: /personal » Blog Archive » Flickr privacy glitch http://www.nnyman.com/personal/2007/12/08/spock/comment-page-1/#comment-94540 /personal » Blog Archive » Flickr privacy glitch Sat, 05 Jan 2008 15:33:45 +0000 http://www.nnyman.com/personal/2007/12/08/spock/#comment-94540 <p>[...] I uploaded pictures from our trip to Istanbul, and the batch included a private pic with two friends in it, tagged with their full names. The next day they started asking me how is it possible this picture comes up when you search for their name in Spock, a service not one of them had registered for! (More on Spock) [...]</p> [...] I uploaded pictures from our trip to Istanbul, and the batch included a private pic with two friends in it, tagged with their full names. The next day they started asking me how is it possible this picture comes up when you search for their name in Spock, a service not one of them had registered for! (More on Spock) [...]

]]> By: Niko http://www.nnyman.com/personal/2007/12/08/spock/comment-page-1/#comment-94362 Niko Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:56:49 +0000 http://www.nnyman.com/personal/2007/12/08/spock/#comment-94362 <p>Totally agreed.</p> <p>As a sidenote: I don't have a spam problem with Facebook. I've toggled out all notifications and everytime I get a new app request, I go to the app page and block it so no further requests will appear. With 400+ friends I get zero email from Facebook, and one new app request per week on average.</p> Totally agreed.

As a sidenote: I don’t have a spam problem with Facebook. I’ve toggled out all notifications and everytime I get a new app request, I go to the app page and block it so no further requests will appear. With 400+ friends I get zero email from Facebook, and one new app request per week on average.

]]> By: Aleksi Aaltonen http://www.nnyman.com/personal/2007/12/08/spock/comment-page-1/#comment-94358 Aleksi Aaltonen Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:34:29 +0000 http://www.nnyman.com/personal/2007/12/08/spock/#comment-94358 <p>At least I was happy get your spam!</p> <p>Your concern how much Spock is about trust is perfectly valid. My 400+ Facebook contacts are my friends only in a very loose sense. This is not to say that Facebook would not be useful for certain tasks. However, after playing around with Spock for a while I still don't see how I am going to use it.</p> <p>I hope Spock developers don't take the idea of codifying trust too seriously as this may very well lead the development astray - like what is happening in Facebook to some extent. I am afraid trust is something that evades attempts to codify it or such codifications can always be circumvented. Personally, when it comes to trust, I still believe in unmediated face to face interaction.</p> <p>The development of Facebook serves a fair warning. The service that is excellent for expanding and keeping in touch with the outer edges of your network is becoming a spambot cluttered with annoying extensions.</p> At least I was happy get your spam!

Your concern how much Spock is about trust is perfectly valid. My 400+ Facebook contacts are my friends only in a very loose sense. This is not to say that Facebook would not be useful for certain tasks. However, after playing around with Spock for a while I still don’t see how I am going to use it.

I hope Spock developers don’t take the idea of codifying trust too seriously as this may very well lead the development astray – like what is happening in Facebook to some extent. I am afraid trust is something that evades attempts to codify it or such codifications can always be circumvented. Personally, when it comes to trust, I still believe in unmediated face to face interaction.

The development of Facebook serves a fair warning. The service that is excellent for expanding and keeping in touch with the outer edges of your network is becoming a spambot cluttered with annoying extensions.

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