Comments on: Comparing snitch.name with PeekYou, Spock, Whoisi, YoName & ex.plode.us

By: Panos

Panos — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:54:35 +0000

I don’t care if snitch stores data on its server or looks for data on other peoples’ server. All I care is that it works. As an end user I don’t care about the underlying technology or implementation, all I care about is to do what it is supposed to be doing.

By: Dionysios Synodinos

Dionysios Synodinos — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:25:15 +0000

@Pavel

IMHO the point is not the technical implementation but what service provides useful information. PeekYou, Spock, Whoisi, YoName & ex.plode.us failed to provide with any useful information whereas snitch.name delivered. I’m not advocating on its technical elegance or say it carries any technological breakthrough, I’m just saying it is useful. Plz see the user comments on that: http://snitch.name/about.html

Storing data or using a super-duper framework/technology doesn’t make a service suck less if it is worthless

By: Pavel

Pavel — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:56:42 +0000

@Dionysios Synodinos

the point is that peekyou,spock,wink and so on have info stored and those guys just doing u a favor of doing a “google search” for you

By: Dionysios Synodinos

Dionysios Synodinos — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:32:07 +0000

@ Joe Shaw
I was actually following the article “3 Ways To Find People With Social Search Engines” (http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/3-ways-to-find-people-with-social-search-engines/) which features whoisi.

@ Pavel
“Search for People’s Profiles on Social Sites” means the data is on other sites. What is your point?

By: Pavel

Pavel — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 15:20:38 +0000

Guess what, snitch has no data of their own… they display other site’s data – dummy….

By: Alexandros

Alexandros — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 14:58:08 +0000

> Dionysios Stavropoloulos: Who is this dude?!?

Αυτό το παιδί ήταν μαζί μου στο στρατό, LOL

By: Joe Shaw

Joe Shaw — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 01:48:38 +0000

Well, whoisi isn’t a person search engine… it’s a site for you to keep track of your friends’ online activity.

See http://whoisi.com/about for the gist on what the site’s about.