by Jay Bhatti on May 22, 2009
Over the last half year, the people search crowd have been slugging it out, if our experience at BNET is any indication. Back in October, we had a chat with Spock.com co-founder Jay Bhatti, at the company’s request, the emphasis being its growing nature. Then during the winter, Yasni.com founder Steffen Rühl wanted a conversation, also to discuss the company’s growth — or, as I found from looking at the data, growth still waiting to happen. Now 123people.com has asked for a conversation, citing statistics that show it the leader. However, when I checked the referenced sources, the numbers came to only a fraction of what the company claimed…
by Jay Bhatti on April 30, 2009
Intelius, a company that performs background checks on people, has acquired Spock, a people search engine, for an undisclosed amount. The deal was signed today, VentureBeat just confirmed with Spock’s co-founder Jaideep Singh. Unconfirmed rumors of the deal first appeared yesterday on Techcrunch.
by Jay Bhatti on February 2, 2009
‘People Search’ is the first and only People Search application on the iPhone. ‘People Search’ lets you find the people that you are interested in.
Who are you looking for on the web?
* Your friends?
* People with similar interests?
* Celebrities?
* Your favorite musician / author / sports star?
* The team behind your favorite company?
* Employees of the company that you are interested in?
* Professionals of a particular domain?
by Jay Bhatti on January 5, 2009
Paula Hane of Information Today Inc reviews the top tech trends of 2008 and gives a sneak peak at 2009.
The recession dominates our thoughts, of course …
It’s hard not to be discouraged when we see the belt-tightening going on across all sectors in reaction to the tough economic conditions—cost cutting, layoffs, closures, loss of advertising, scaled back growth plans, etc. … But we’re a tough and resilient lot. Things are bound to improve. And, as one of my more optimistic-minded colleagues pointed out, the tough times forced his company to re-examine how it was doing things and to implement some cost-cutting changes that should have been made earlier.
by Jay Bhatti on December 31, 2008
Seth Grimes of Information Enterprise reviews people search engine Spoke, giving praise to Spock.
“If you want to keep your job, use Spoke,” advises recent e-mail from the folks behind “the fastest growing and most up-to-date business network in the U.S.” Sounds like something to look into — social / people networks are one of the most important BI assets to have emerged in recent years — and I figured I owe Spoke another chance after panning it back in 2004. Grading according to the same accuracy, completeness, quality, usefulness, and usability standards I’d apply to other BI tools, I’m afraid I’d give Spoke a low C. Here’s why.
