Archive for the ‘spock’ Category

People Search Article

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

Good article over at Search Engine Land from my new found buddy search and developer relations guru Vanessa Fox on People Search.  Vanessa interviews the players in the space including the CEO's of Spock and Wink.  Very exhuastive review of the article. Vanessa quotes me (and notes my former role at ...

101 spock private beta invites available

Thursday, June 14th, 2007

comment if you want one and register your email since its required to send the invite.SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "101 spock private beta invites available", url: "http://www.sawickipedia.com/blog/2007/06/14/101-spock-private-beta-invites-available/" });

man vs. machine - the definition of search 2.0

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

Those who know me know one of the guiding prinicples in my business and product thinking is that automation is king.  I believe that smart automation will always beat out manual processes when automation can be applies.  The thesis has certainly lead to my involement in a series of startups ...

people search: worth $30 billion?

Saturday, May 26th, 2007

Don Dodget does a great analysis this morning on what 1% of the search market is worth.  Putting my Spock hat on (disclosure - I did some work for them last winter), you can see why the market is excited about people search.  Assuming that people search in its broadest ...

spock invitation

Friday, May 25th, 2007

I have one invite left for folks looking to get into the private beta for Spock - the search engine for people.  Post a comment if you're interested and I'lll forward you the invite.  Spock Search of the day: SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "spock invitation", url: "http://www.sawickipedia.com/blog/2007/05/25/spock-invitation/" });

pimping spock

Tuesday, May 15th, 2007

Having been fortunate to have worked last winter with Spock, the burgeoning search engine for people, I have a beta account.  So I figure I would should share somethings - here's my spock search of the day: SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "pimping spock", url: "http://www.sawickipedia.com/blog/2007/05/15/pimping-spock/" });

web 2.0 expo thoughts and feedback

Saturday, April 21st, 2007

First I tend to agree with this blog post that for the most part I was underwhelmed with web 2.0 expo.  After the raging zeitgeist, that was the web 2.0 summit from last fall - it was probably too much to expect the show to live up to the hype in ...

Congrats to Spock and Kefta

Wednesday, April 11th, 2007

Congrats to Phillipe and his team (including Andy Sack)... Great to read about the news!  Having used Kefta's software in a live comparison against competitors like Optimost and Offermatica - I can certainly say their software really works and kicks their competitors behinds.  Expensive but good (I guess in life ...