Spock—it’s About People

It aims to make every person on the planet a searchable name. It aims to show how everyone is connected to one another. It is Spock. When you sign up for Spock you can immediately search for anyone you know by importing your contacts. Next, you can claim your profiles from your email accounts and social networks such as mySpace. From that point on it’s all about enhancing the network. Add information and photos about yourself and others to make Spock searches more complete.

With Spock, you can search by name, place, or keyword to find people. Locate results about celebrities, political figures, or try to find a long lost friend. Spock’s system works by allowing people to make contribute tags, related people, and other content, and then voting on them to place their priority in the search results. Famous faces that have joined include Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

I’ve never been one for the whole social networking thing, and this seems like an evolution of that concept. I, personally, don’t want everyone in the world to be able to search for me, and seeing my full name on the web gives me the creeps. Searching for people and seeing how they’re connected through relevant information rather than seeing someone’s list of a thousand “friends” that they don’t actually know.

Spock is currently in open beta and is funded by Clearstone Venture Partners and Opus Capital Ventures. Claim your identity at www.spock.com.