Hi guys, really nice work.<p>I am really into the tip of the iceberg idea for the website.<p>One question to the developers that I am sure it is in many people's minds:
1) I sign up
2) U use my login credentials to access the apis
3) U print the results on my screen
4) U save the "business card" of the person I searched for without his consent. And now the million dollar question.
Do you for any reason give FULL access to this business card to:
a) a person that has partial access to my contact for example linkein connection but not facebook friend?
b) to any other person or company that has no connection whatsoever, now or IN THE FUTURE?<p>In other words do you provide details that are not publicly available to people that have no connection?<p>Sorry for the long post but I am a little bit concerned about privacy...
<i>Google and Facebook can’t help you find which of your friends are single, or live in New York and like Radiohead...</i><p>Really? I think that it can.
"First name Emily + birthday in March + Studied at NYU = That ridiculous girl from New York you met during her birthday party at the bar last night"<p>sounds like a great addition to my cyber stalker toolbag. These cross-network profiling is really one of these areas which haven't been covered that much yet, except maybe by intelligence services. Looks like an interesting project to watch.
What ever happend to greplin? weren't they also kind of going to solve this? They were in the news a ton until they weren't.<p>But yeah, we need this. Even Facebook's search has been nerfed compared to where it was years ago. It is a colossal pain, all the data is there but no one wants to organize it
I for one don't like this, and hope that there is an opt-out feature.<p>Just because my information is somewhat public in several places (not Facebook) does not mean I want it aggregated and data mined for commercial and advertising purposes.
Very interesting pivot. They were doing an affiliate sales system where rewards from your purchases go to nonprofits of your choosing. They were my startup's #1 competitor. I wonder why the pivot?
For anyone interested, the closest thing to this around at the moment (that I have come across) is <a href="http://pipl.com" rel="nofollow">http://pipl.com</a> , and it's actually pretty good.
I wish there was an API where I could input as much info as I had array("firstName"=>"John","lastName"=>"Doe","zip"=>"12345") for example and it returns info on as many matches that go with the input and includes occupation, birth date, relatives, etc. That would be awesome...