Tim O'Reilly at Berlin Web 2.0 Expo

Check out this interview given by Tim O'Reilly for Intruders.tv on the sidelines of Web 2.0 Expo at Berlin.

O'Reilly talks about Social networking platforms, Google, OpenSocial and lots more.

Want to Spock yourself?

Intended to be the people search application, Spock has its robots crawling the net to find out from 'trusted' sources (read LinkedIn, Blogger, Wordpress and like), information about individuals and presents them to the user. Additionally, it also provides a truly Web 2.0 feature of letting users tag other individuals.

Its limitation in being unable to track commoners effectively has been cited by some experts, mentioning that Spock would be most helpful in case you are searching for celebrities.

What caught my eye was a Spock banner I found on an Indian music site. Interestingly, the banner features Aishwarya Rai and the catch-line says 'Click to see tags and pictures'.

Now that is a big departure from the basic function of Spock - To search for people!

Online Journals and Weblogs

Saw this piece journal vs. weblog. (courtesy Manu Bhardwaj@LJ)

This sounds pretty interesting. Online Journals are different from Weblogs (or Blogs)!